Waasekom, a 28-year-old water advocate from the Saugeen and Kettle and Stony Point First Nations, has spent more than 150 days paddling to raise awareness about the effects of climate change on the five Great Lakes.
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Waasekom met "water walker" Josephine Mandamin on a 2015 walk. She asked everyone she met, “What are you going to do to save the water?” After the walk, Waasekom knew how to answer the elder’s question: he'd continue her work with his own paddling journey.thestar.com/life/together/…
Over the past five years, Waasekom has witnessed first-hand the ravages of climate change and colonization. He has paddled through noxious blue algae blooms and islands of dead fish in Lake Erie. He paddles to help others see them too. thestar.com/life/together/… 
With each encounter, he aims to encourage people to create new relationships with water and accept the responsibility to protect it – not just “easy to love" pristine landscapes, but polluted waterways and shores that require even more care and attention. thestar.com/life/together/…
“It’s in the relationships that we build that we can make change,” says Waasekom, who has plans to take his message across Canada in 2022. “It was the water that called me,” he says. “Now I’m extending it to you all.” thestar.com/life/together/…
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