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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Surfmasons River Surfers propose artificial wave for lower Current River

Surfmasons River Surfers propose artificial wave for lower Current River

When you picture someone surfing, the first image that comes to mind is probably not just below the Boulevard Lake dam in Thunder Bay, Ont. A group of surfers, led by Brett Sharman, the president and founder of the Surfmasons River Surfers Association, hopes city council will be interested in an idea that could turn the lower Current River into a surfers paradise. Sharman said the proposal is to have the city alter its permit to take water from the river, to fill an artificial pool below the dam, which would act as a reservoir for an artificial wave, that would spill over for a few hours a day.

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