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MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Kevin Sweryd poses for a portrait at Bardal Funeral Home in Winnipeg on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. Sweryd is not able to build a crematory at his location (because it is too close to residences) and has been trying for more than 10 years to get funeral home regulations in Manitoba changed to allow for a 16-year-old technology called alkaline hydrolysis that uses water instead of flames to reduce the body to ashes. For --- story. Winnipeg Free Press 2021.