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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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Multi-year Infrastructure Investment Strategy Details Planned Highway, Water Control, Northern Airport Capital Projects

Multi-year Infrastructure Investment Strategy Details Planned Highway, Water Control, Northern Airport Capital Projects

The massive plan details more than 800 approved capital projects planned for the next five years to improve provincial highway, water control and northern airport assets throughout the province. It includes over $2.5 billion for highway infrastructure including $560 million to improve Manitoba’s key trade and commerce routes grid and nearly $280 million to upgrade Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway to freeway standards. Once complete, this initiative will improve safety by adding interchanges and overpasses at all roadways and railway crossings. 214 water-related projects including the proposed $600-million Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin Outlet Channels.

Memories of 1997 flood back for Manitobans 25 years later, though many want to move on

Memories of 1997 flood back for Manitobans 25 years later, though many want to move on

Jacques Courcelles still vividly recalls his parents' refrigerator floating in the kitchen, anchored like a boat, its cord still attached to the wall outlet under water. "My parents had water over top of the kitchen counters. The air in the fridge was what was making the fridge float," he said, his mind flashing back to April 30, 1997, when the community of Ste. Agathe was first to fall to the Flood of the Century.

As insurance claims pour in after Manitoba spring storm, here's what homeowners need to know

As insurance claims pour in after Manitoba spring storm, here's what homeowners need to know

The water has receded and fans are blowing around the clock in Christina Beeusaert's East St. Paul basement. Her belongings are stacked to the ceiling and like many Manitobans, she is waiting to learn just how much the water damage will cost her. "It depends, once they start ripping the other room apart, how much water damage there is behind the walls and that," she told CBC News.

Worried about your home flooding this spring? Prevention doesn't have to be difficult, experts say

Worried about your home flooding this spring? Prevention doesn't have to be difficult, experts say

After a weekend of heavy rain, Manitobans have been busy cleaning up flooded basements and leaky roofs. That's meant tons of calls for service to local restoration companies. At Paul Davis Restoration in Winnipeg, general manager Ken Cruzat says they usually get four or five calls for service after a storm. But in the last two days, he says they've received 50 calls about water coming through everything from foundation cracks to windows.

Ice pancakes treat Manitobans to strange formations on water

Ice pancakes treat Manitobans to strange formations on water

Ice pancakes and ice balls have been showing up on Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg recently, treating curious Manitobans to strange ice formations with the water covered by what resembles pebbles, rocks and even pancakes. The ice anomalies were spotted last weekend at Steep Rock, Man., on the northeast shore of Lake Manitoba by local resident Peter Hofbauer, who posted photos of the phenomena on Instagram with the simple question: “Have you ever seen the lake freeze like this?”

Drought lowers river levels to the point where Manitoba Hydro expects $200M deficit

Drought lowers river levels to the point where Manitoba Hydro expects $200M deficit

The extreme drought across the Canadian Prairies over the past year is expected to leave Manitoba Hydro with a deficit in the $200-million range for the current fiscal year. The Crown corporation disclosed low river levels will deprive the utility of about $400 million in export revenue over the coming months. This will leave Manitoba Hydro with a deficit between $190 million and $200 million for the 2021-22 fiscal year, the corporation disclosed after publishing its second-quarter financial report.

Winnipeg MP says federal government willing to help tackle Lake Winnipeg pollution

Winnipeg MP says federal government willing to help tackle Lake Winnipeg pollution

Help could be on the way to update the North End Sewage Treatment Plant and fight pollution in Lake Winnipeg. The Lake Winnipeg Foundation, an environmental non-governmental organization, said the city is the single largest contributor of phosphorus in the lake, at around five per cent. Winnipeg South MP Terry Duguid, parliamentary secretary to the minister of environment and climate change, told 680 CJOB the federal government is willing to do its part to tackle the problem, but the North End plant only serves as a starting point.

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