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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Clarington repaving project halted after residents find 'all kinds of crap' in material for new road bed

Clarington repaving project halted after residents find 'all kinds of crap' in material for new road bed

Durham Region has halted work on a road rebuilding project after neighbours complained they stumbled upon contaminated waste in the new road bed. Work was shut down on the rehab project in Clarington, 100 kilometres east of Toronto, about two weeks ago. A consultant was called in to check what crews had been using in a lower layer of the rebuilt road. "I was picking up syringes, batteries, pieces of metal, razor blades," local farmer Andrew McVey said this week. "There's all kinds of crap ... various garbage that I felt should not be part of what's being buried in the road "

Water in Burnside deemed safe after possibility of high chlorine levels

Water in Burnside deemed safe after possibility of high chlorine levels

Halifax Water has determined its drinking water in the Burnside area of Dartmouth is safe after it reported potentially high levels of chlorine early Sunday. The water utility said in a release issued overnight that it "experienced an issue" with its water treatment plant in Burnside that could temporarily cause the higher levels. The utility said a few hundred customers in the area were advised to run cold water from their taps if they smelled a strong odour of chlorine.

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