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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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How Waterloo region's water services are preparing for future climate change challenges

How Waterloo region's water services are preparing for future climate change challenges

With Waterloo region's climate projected to be more extreme in the coming decades, officials with the region's water services are already thinking of how to adapt to future changes and challenges. Adapting current infrastructure and future builds to climate change takes time and a lot of planning, said Kaoru Yajima, a senior engineer with the region's water services. It's why that work has already been underway for several years. "We've been seeing changes in the climate for some time. It's not like it just happened today or last year. It's been coming around for some time and we knew that we had to plan," he told CBC Kitchener-Waterloo.

Environmental group calls for tighter rules around ship dumping

Environmental group calls for tighter rules around ship dumping

As the cruise-ship season starts to ramp up along the West Coast, an environmental group is calling on the federal government to tighten its rules and raise minimum standards around vessels dumping sewage and other waste in protected marine areas. World Wildlife Fund Canada said in a report this week that all types of ships operating in Canadian waters generate — and potentially dump — 147 billion litres of operational waste each year, the equivalent of 59,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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