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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Bokhari pledges to fast-track North End Water Treatment Plant upgrades

Bokhari pledges to fast-track North End Water Treatment Plant upgrades

Winnipeg mayoral candidate Rana Bokhari wants to speed up the North End Water Treatment Plant upgrades as well as provide more money to the Combined Sewer Overflow Plan if elected this fall. Speaking to reporters outside the North End plant on Monday, Bokhari said that she aims to have upgrades to the facility completed by 2033, 12 years ahead of schedule. Bokhari would also up the spending on the Combined Sewer Overflow Plan to $60 million a year. She commended the city for upping its budget from $30 million a year to $45 million. Bokhari says she would work with the province and federal governments to match that.

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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