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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Abbotsford repairs making dikes stronger but not invincible

Abbotsford repairs making dikes stronger but not invincible

Abbotsford’s dikes are in a better position than last year when atmospheric rivers deluged the Lower Mainland-U.S. border area, flooding Abbotsford’s Sumas Prairie, said Mayor Henry Braun, but the area is still highly vulnerable. It needs both a short-term fix and long-term $800 million pumping station to be built as soon as possible. The city wants to see the proposed pumping station uncoupled from its $2.8 billion approved multi-phase flood mitigation plan that will enable more water to be pumped away from valued agricultural land that was flooded when the U.S. based Nooksack River overflowed.

Damage assessments begin in flooded remote Alaska villages

Damage assessments begin in flooded remote Alaska villages

Authorities in Alaska were making contact Monday with some of the most remote villages in the United States to determine their food and water needs, as well as assess the damage after a massive storm flooded communities on the state's vast western coast this weekend. No one was reported injured or killed during the massive storm — the remnants of Typhoon Merbok — as it traveled north through the Bering Strait over the weekend. However, damage to homes, roads and other infrastructure is only starting to be revealed as floodwaters recede.

Basements, backyards flooded after thunderstorms soak southern Manitoba

Basements, backyards flooded after thunderstorms soak southern Manitoba

The rain kept coming down as Mike Ledarney was already pumping water out of his basement in Teulon on Tuesday. The resident of the Manitoba town, about 60 kilometres north of Winnipeg, said he came home early from work after his sister called to break the news that his basement was flooding. By the time he got back, his dad had a sump pump running, but there was already about 30 centimetres of water in the basement. "It's obviously a lot of stress … having to deal with that, and not knowing always in certainty … what's going to happen next," Ledarney said outside his house later in the day.

'Like living in hell': N.S. couple gets $600K from province after 11-year battle

'Like living in hell': N.S. couple gets $600K from province after 11-year battle

An Antigonish County couple's 11-year battle over property damage related to the twinning of Highway 104 has finally come to a close after they received nearly $600,000 in compensation from the province. Jane DeWolfe and Kevin Partridge have lived in their log home along the bank of the South River in Lower South River, N.S., for 40 years. They swam in the river, taught their kids to swim in it, fished and boated in it. They've watched cranes raise their young on the riverbank, and when the turtles climb ashore to dig holes in their gravel driveway to lay eggs in, they don't mind one bit.

City of Greater Sudbury changes course on Flour Mill floodproofing plan

City of Greater Sudbury changes course on Flour Mill floodproofing plan

More than a decade after Sudbury's Flour Mill neighbourhood was flooded, the city is confident it has found a solution. But instead of building a system of channels and flood walls, the city bought the houses of the people most affected. A once-in-a-century storm filled the streets of the Flour Mill with water in 2009. But many came to blame a newly built hilltop subdivision called Sunrise Ridge for changing drainage patterns in the area and claimed there was now threat of flooding every spring.

Quebec City repairs valve at water treatment plant, halting raw sewage flow into St. Lawrence

Quebec City repairs valve at water treatment plant, halting raw sewage flow into St. Lawrence

Emergency repairs in one of Quebec City's two wastewater treatment plants have succeeded in stopping the release of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River. Some 21,000 cubic metres of raw sewage had been flowing untreated into the river every hour since Saturday night because of a broken valve. Late yesterday, an underwater diver working in the tunnel filled with wastewater managed to make repairs, allowing the treatment plant to resume operating at about 60 per cent capacity. It's expected to be back at full capacity today.

Boil water order issued for Tignish

Boil water order issued for Tignish

A boil water advisory has been put in place in the town of Tignish, P.E.I. Residents on the municipal water system are being urged not to drink the town's water or cook with it until it's boiled, following a malfunction with the town's water system. "We went door to door with pamphlets from ... Environment P.E.I. and let all the people know there was a boil order," Tignish Mayor Allan McInnis says.

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