Nicole Hancock
Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony ...

Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.

Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony to heal Chedoke Creek

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Join the Water Innovation Challenge

BlackBerry and the Water Institute are partnering on an inaugural Water Innovation Challenge launching in the Winter 2022 academic term. The purpose of the challenge is to engage Water Institute professors and students in proposing research and development projects that advance BlackBerry’s technology interests while addressing water-related challenges or opportunities, with particular reference to UN SDG6 for Clean Water and Sanitation or related SDG’s (for example, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 13 Climate Change and SDG 14 Life under Water).

BlackBerry unveils new flood risk and clean water monitoring solution

BlackBerry unveils new flood risk and clean water monitoring solution

BlackBerry announced the release of a new tool that will help address flood risk and clean water monitoring. The company is working with the University of Windsor on the project -- which runs on BlackBerry's AtHoc critical event management platform -- and testing it in Canada. In a statement, BlackBerry explained that Indigenous peoples across Canada are disproportionately impacted by flooding and a lack of clean water, which prompted the two organizations to join forces. The technology "provides autonomous year-round monitoring and an intelligent early warning system, collecting and processing large amounts of sensor data, and generating alerts based on the data insights."

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