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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Chinese owner of Manitoba mine wants to drain lake to extract more cesium from one of world's few deposits

Chinese owner of Manitoba mine wants to drain lake to extract more cesium from one of world's few deposits

The Chinese owner of the Tanco mine in eastern Manitoba has revived talk of partly draining a lake in order to extract more cesium from one of the world's few deposits of the critical mineral. Sinomine Resource Group is musing about a long-term redevelopment of the mine it purchased in 2019 along the shore of Bernic Lake, a small Canadian Shield body of water located between Whiteshell and Nopiming provincial parks. The goal is to reach cesium that cannot be mined right now, because it's embedded in vertical columns that hold up the roof of the underground mine.

North Whiteshell businesses welcome back customers after record flooding

North Whiteshell businesses welcome back customers after record flooding

Business owners in the Whiteshell Provincial Park are trying to get back to normal weeks after receiving evacuation orders amid record floods in the region. The high water in the eastern Manitoba park caused major damages, resulting in lost revenue for businesses already affected by a wet spring and delayed summer. D.J. Seales, owner of the Barrier Bay resort and president of the North Whiteshell Business Association, says the last few weeks of closures could cost surrounding businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair.

Whiteshell property owners prepare to stay and fight flood despite evacuation order

Whiteshell property owners prepare to stay and fight flood despite evacuation order

Resort owner Amy Vereb says she will be one of many people in the Whiteshell staying behind to protect their properties from rising floodwaters after an expanded evacuation order goes into effect Tuesday. "There's lots of us out here that this is all we have, and I just don't think that people realize that," said Vereb, who owns Otter Falls Resort. "This isn't just cottage country."

'Go with the punches': Manitoba wilderness lodge hit by flood after 2 years of COVID closures

'Go with the punches': Manitoba wilderness lodge hit by flood after 2 years of COVID closures

After two years of being shut down due to COVID-19, a Manitoba fishing and hunting lodge finally reopened this spring to face the most devastating flooding one of its owners has seen in nearly four decades. "There's probably about four feet of water in the boathouse right now," said Donna Hastings, who, along with her husband, owns Windsock Lodge on the shore of Long Lake in Nopiming Provincial Park. The lodge's dock, and a deck attached to that, have been "ripped apart," she said.

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