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.
Bathtub water enveloping Newfoundland? Hardly, but it's extreme relative to what waters you typically find sloshing around the shores of Atlantic Canada. You're probably familiar with temperature anomalies on land. Often meteorologists reference how much the thermometer deviates from climate normals. Land temperature anomalies can reach 20°C above, like this week across portions of Coastal California.
