Peguis First Nation has filed a $1-billion flood-damages lawsuit against the federal government, the provincial government and two municipalities located upstream of the Ojibway and Cree community in Manitoba's northern Interlake. The First Nation is seeking damages for all losses connected to the flood, as well as damages for expenses it incurred fighting the flood and cleaning up after it. In a statement of claim, the First Nation said the estimated cost of repairing, replacing or relocating approximately