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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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B.C. Climate News Nov. 14 to Nov. 20: UN talks poised for deal creating disaster | Trees in cities struggle from drought | Indigenous people an 'afterthought' as world leaders gather

B.C. Climate News Nov. 14 to Nov. 20: UN talks poised for deal creating disaster | Trees in cities struggle from drought | Indigenous people an 'afterthought' as world leaders gather

Here’s your weekly update with what you need to know about the global and ecological crises and the steps leaders in B.C. and around the world are taking for the week of Nov. 14 to Nov. 20, 2022. COP27 goes into overtime as Canada continues to face criticism on oil and gas stance, UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund, Indigenous people an ‘afterthought’ as world leaders gather to confront climate change, As climate change progresses, trees in cities struggle The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned for a decade that wildfires, drought, severe weather, such as B.C.’s deadly heat dome last June, and flooding would become more frequent and more intense because of the climate crisis.

Why Justin Trudeau’s ‘blue hydrogen’ dream is not really green

Why Justin Trudeau’s ‘blue hydrogen’ dream is not really green

While world leaders convene in Sharm el-Sheikh for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, Canadian politicians are hard at work selling dreams of clean green energy to locals and foreigners alike. Though the recent green energy export agreement signed between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was welcome news in Ottawa as much as Berlin, Canadian taxpayers should be mindful of politicians’ proclivity to overpromise and underdeliver. When it comes to promises of an energy transition powered by Canadian hydrogen, no amount of skepticism is too little.

Pope Francis to see effects of climate change in visit to Canada’s Arctic

Pope Francis to see effects of climate change in visit to Canada’s Arctic

Pope Francis‘s upcoming visit to Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut draws attention to a focal point for global climate change, with sea ice disappearing fast and permafrost thawing. Francis, who arrives in the capital Iqaluit of predominantly Indigenous Nunavut on Friday, is in Canada to apologize in person for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in abuses that residential schools inflicted on Indigenous children.

What happened when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited this (virtual) class

What happened when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited this (virtual) class

It’s not every day that one of your virtual classmates is the prime minister of Canada. Just ask the students from Alison Palmer’s Grade 6 class at the Victoria School in Edmonton. When they attended class on Jan. 5, their virtual guest was none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But Trudeau wasn’t in the virtual class to learn about social studies, math or history. Instead, he spent an hour answering questions about his job and political promises.

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