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.
TD Insurance has teamed up with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) to launch the latest iteration of a program that offers strategies to minimize risks associated with extreme weather events. The newest Showcase Home initiative coincides with the growing threat of urban flooding in Canada. According to data from CatIQ, basement flooding and water-related incidents from the past year resulted in more than a billion dollars in property damage.
With all the rain being forecasted in the northeast over the next couple of days, Greater Sudbury Utilities wants you to know what to do if your basement floods. With 20 to 40 mm of rain expected to fall in northeastern Ontario by late Thursday morning, Environment Canada has issued a series of rainfall warnings for communities from Wawa to Kirkland Lake and Sault Ste. Marie to Mattawa.
