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.
A new report from the think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) suggests that climate change will exacerbate resource degradation and conflict in various parts of the world. Food insecurity, lack of water and the impact of natural disasters, combined with high population growth, are intensifying conflict and displacing people in vulnerable areas, according to the report’s findings.
