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

Manitoba's Interlake region

Rising flood waters force Peguis First Nation to declare state of emergency once again

Rising flood waters force Peguis First Nation to declare state of emergency once again

About a month after historic flooding on Peguis First Nation began to recede, the community in Manitoba's Interlake region is being hit hard by rising waters once again. A heavy downpour on Tuesday followed by runoff from drainage south of the First Nation led to flash flooding overnight on Wednesday, Peguis Chief Glenn Hudson says. By Thursday, the community had declared a state of emergency. Now, roads that had only been cleaned up from flooding last month are again overcome by water, Hudson says. River crossings have been flooded out. Some residents who had just returned home are once again pumping water and sandbagging. Others returned just to have to leave once more, he says.

Thousands of flood-damaged sites need repairs in Manitoba, tab already tens of millions and growing

Thousands of flood-damaged sites need repairs in Manitoba, tab already tens of millions and growing

The devastation from the wettest Manitoba spring in over a century is still being catalogued, but officials say there are thousands of sites that need repairs, with a repair tab that is already into the tens of millions of dollars. "It will be a significant recovery program," Sarah Thiele, deputy minister of transportation and infrastructure, said during a news conference in Manitoba's Interlake region Thursday morning. She addressed media as a torrent of water rushed in the background, where a section of Highway 222 collapsed near Lakeside Road, north of Gimli.

Manitoba's Interlake region grapples with 'unfathomable' spring flooding

Manitoba's Interlake region grapples with 'unfathomable' spring flooding

While communities in southern Manitoba battle flooding from the Red and Assiniboine rivers, people in the Interlake region are scrambling to save their homes from rising waters. Overland flooding from the Icelandic River, which runs into Lake Winnipeg, has washed out many roads and drenched fields in the municipality of Bifrost-Riverton. That municipality includes the community of Riverton and numerous hamlets, and surrounds the town of Arborg, about 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

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