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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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Q+A: U of S water expert delivers talks to COP27 climate conference

Q+A: U of S water expert delivers talks to COP27 climate conference

John Pomeroy, director of the Global Water Futures program at the University of Saskatchewan is delivering virtual talks on glacier preservation and water issues in the circumpolar North to delegates at the COP27 climate summit. He spoke with Postmedia ahead of his second lecture, set to be delivered Wednesday. Q: What are some key points from your talks? A: Warming is proceeding faster in the mountains than other parts of the world. Glaciers are retreating, snowpacks are melting earlier in the year. We’re also getting extremely high temperatures, such as in 2021, and massive forest fires in areas as well as flash-flooding coming form heavy rainfall at times. All these are occurring at once, which is making it very challenging.

A Canadian in Iceland: The country's first lady on how her adopted home is tackling climate change

A Canadian in Iceland: The country's first lady on how her adopted home is tackling climate change

But it's the wetlands and bird sanctuary, just a few metres away on the presidential estate, to which Reid and her husband, President Guðni Jóhannesson, draw the attention of a visiting CBC News crew. "We had ditches there," Jóhannesson said, pointing to a grassy area close to the shoreline. "They were dug in the 1930s to cultivate the land. Now, we are filling up those ditches [with water]. It's a case of wetland reclamation."

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