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

new water-treatment plant

This First Nation has a new highway and a water-treatment plant that's 'like our Stanley Cup'

This First Nation has a new highway and a water-treatment plant that's 'like our Stanley Cup'

People in Shoal Lake #40 First Nation are proud of what they've accomplished in recent years. The community in northwestern Ontario, near the Manitoba-Ontario border, built Freedom Road, connecting their once-isolated community to the Trans-Canada Highway, and completed a water-treatment plant that's helped them emerge from a 24-year boil-water advisory. This spring, the community was honoured by the Ontario Public Works Association with the Public Works Project of the Year for Small Municipalities and First Nations award for their new water-treatment plant.

Five drinking-water advisories lifted in Bay of Quinte First Nation

Five drinking-water advisories lifted in Bay of Quinte First Nation

The Mohawks of Bay of Quinte First Nation will be able to enjoy clean drinking water after five long-term drinking-water advisories were lifted in that community thanks to a state-of-the-art water-filtration plant that has come online, federal authorities announced last week. Federal and Nation investments in the community’s new water-treatment plant totalling about $58 million since 2014 paid off in a big way recently, Mohawks of Bay of Quinte Chief R. Donald Maracle said.

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