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

Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee

Review of Plan 2014 continuing

Review of Plan 2014 continuing

Plan 2014, which the International Joint Commission (IJC) uses to manage water levels and flows in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River is currently under review, however, any major changes to the plan are still a long way off. Criticism of the plan prompted an expedited review which began in early 2020. Wendy Leger of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management (GLAM) Committee, which is carrying out the review, says the first phase of the review is scheduled to be completed by the end of October. Leger made the comments in a recent IJC webinar.

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