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		<title>CBC Manitoba: Bikes, shopping carts and oil drums were among the trash pulled out of Winnipeg&#8217;s Seine River</title>
        
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		<description><![CDATA[They pulled 15 tires, 13 shopping carts and&#160;five bikes out of&#160;Winnipeg&#8217;s Seine River. That was just some of the trash a team from an environmental non-profit removed from the river as part of their annual summer cleanup.&#160;There was also&#160;a suitcase so heavy and full of water it tipped their canoe, three knives and children&#8217;s toys.&#160;Plus, [&#8230;]]]></description>
        
        <alt_description><![CDATA[<img width="120" height="90" src="https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Gabby-WFP-120x90.png" class="attachment-newsfeed size-newsfeed wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin-bottom:0px;" decoding="async" /> Save Our Seine team collected enough garbage to fill over 100 bags]]></alt_description>
        
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr">They pulled 15 tires, 13 shopping carts and&nbsp;five bikes out of&nbsp;Winnipeg&#8217;s Seine River.</p>
<p>That was just some of the trash a team from an environmental non-profit removed from the river as part of their annual summer cleanup.&nbsp;There was also&nbsp;a suitcase so heavy and full of water it tipped their canoe, three knives and children&#8217;s toys.&nbsp;Plus, oil drums, a rollerblade, and an old projector.</p>
<p>Shawn Clark, a professor serving as head of the University of Manitoba&#8217;s civil engineering department commented on the lower water levels in the Seine River this season.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/seine-river-summer-cleanup-winnipeg-1.6940726">Read here</a></p>
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