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

boiling lake water

A glimpse of remote living with Parkinson's draws viewers to unlikely Quebec TikTok star

A glimpse of remote living with Parkinson's draws viewers to unlikely Quebec TikTok star

With no running water and only a wood stove to heat his remote Quebec cabin, Mark Hogben starts each morning by making a fire and boiling lake water. Then the 54-year-old signs in to TikTok to check the analytics of his latest videos and touch base with a global community of online friends, many of whom, like him, have Parkinson's disease. While TikTok is best known for viral videos of Gen Z dance trends and comedy sketches, the former Montrealer says he's surprised to attract millions of views for self-shot clips of mundane chores that include chopping wood, fetching water and cleaning his chimney.

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