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.
As the province deals with a dire drought, ICBC has launched a contest to try to incentivize people to conserve water by foregoing car washing. Announced on social media Friday, the auto insurer is inviting people to submit photos of their dirty cars in order to be eligible to win prizes. "Is your car dirty? Leaving it to the rain to 'wash' it? Keep it that way for your chance to win!" an Instagram post announcing the contest says.
As an insurer, Intact obviously has its own data and maps. Based on that, the company assumes as many as five per cent of those newly at-risk properties will be simply uninsurable. Brindamour warns that "if you're in a zone that gets flooded repeatedly, or where the odds of being flooded has increased meaningfully, it'll be hard to find insurance from private capital."
