The City of Toronto publishes food-premises inspection results for free. You can open the public map and search any day. That is real, and it is useful.
So why would a pest-control firm pay $49 a month for an email? Fair answer below.
Sources (checked Oct 29, 2026): City of Toronto food-inspection terms of use · Open data dataset page · Open Government Licence – Toronto.
The public file covers every food-premises inspection, not just pest rows. To find work, you download or click through, then filter for pest wording (entry, harbouring, breeding, missing pest-control records, rodent or insect health hazards), then skip places you already saw yesterday.
That is doable. It is also slow if you do it every morning before route work.
We do not add phone numbers the City did not publish. We do not promise any lead becomes a contract.
As of Oct 29, 2026 (America/Toronto): September had 228 food-business inspections with a pest citation (Sep 1–30). October 1–28 had 217 (partial month; source CSV last pest date Oct 27). One count is one distinct food business cited for pests on a given inspection day; the monthly figure sums those daily counts.
Counts: stats/pest/page-counts.json (as of 2026-10-29). One count = one distinct food business with at least one pest citation on a given inspection day; monthly totals sum those daily counts. Licence credit: Open Government Licence – Toronto.
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Related: What a pest citation means · Commercial overview · Monthly counts by district