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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Swimming 'strongly discouraged': Parks Canada closes Scarborough's Rouge Beach for urgent repairs

Swimming 'strongly discouraged': Parks Canada closes Scarborough's Rouge Beach for urgent repairs

Beachgoers will find it harder to get to the sand in Scarborough this month after Parks Canada declared Rouge Beach temporarily closed. The federal agency in charge of Rouge National Urban Park says a sandbar formed in front of the river, blocking the Rouge River’s natural flow into Lake Ontario.

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