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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Province expects to operate Red River Floodway before end of the week

Province expects to operate Red River Floodway before end of the week

The province says it is preparing to activate the Red River Floodway to manage water levels within Winnipeg in the next 24 to 48 hours due to rising water levels that have been accelerated by this week's weather. The Red River's spring crest isn't expected in Winnipeg until sometime from April 9-16. However, the precipitation Manitoba has seen in the last two days, along with the gradual snowmelt occurring in the river basins, could raise levels above the riverbanks at some spots in the Red River Valley, the province said in a news release Wednesday.

Canoodling Canada's original highways

Canoodling Canada's original highways

On the rack in the backyard, the little red canoe is withdrawn, overturned and not liking it, and the crest of snow on the canvas is visible along the tumblehome. It yearns for open water now closing in on this writer. Back in 2007, after much input from listeners and a panel of judges, the CBC Radio show Sounds Like Canada picked the canoe as one of the country's seven wonders. One of those judges was Roy MacGregor. “It may have been the promise of a railroad to the Pacific that made Canada whole,” writes Roy in his book, Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada, "but it was rivers that carried the people west and made that railroad necessary.”

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