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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Letters to the Editor, July 17, 2022

Letters to the Editor, July 17, 2022

I am completely confused about why our government cannot provide clean water for the Indigenous communities in the north and elsewhere in Canada. This necessary resource is monitored diligently throughout our country so why can we not provide these families with purification equipment and the proper training to maintain and repair the systems as required. This seems like a small service that can be easily provided to our Indigenous communities and there appears to be zero reason why our stagnant peace-time military engineers cannot provide a viable solution to this issue.

RUSSELL EASY: At the VG fighting cancer and for the right to clean water

RUSSELL EASY: At the VG fighting cancer and for the right to clean water

I am currently at the VG undergoing my third round of immuno/chemotherapy, and though I know I will be treated with outstanding care, I also know that I will be unable to simply go to the bathroom to rinse my flushed face with cool water from the tap. I will be unable to take a shower, even though the toxic drugs flowing through my body will cause shakes and shivers and night sweats. And I also know that the caretakers and registered nurses who do such a phenomenal job will be taking precious time out of their schedule to prepare clean and pathogen-free water for me and for others much worse off than I am, simply so these individuals who are ill can take a necessary sponge bath to ease the distress of their treatments.

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