Cortes Currents
Cortes Currents is a news program that communicates the activities, concerns and interests of Cortes and other Discovery Islands.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 521
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
At the Old Schoolhouse Gallery- Kristen Scofield-Sweet’s final large-scale exhibition
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - From August 29 to September 14, the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery will host ‘How Do You Like the Underworld?—Kristen Scofield-Sweet’s final large-scale exhibition.
“This…
00:10:27 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Cortes Food Bank Recieves Standard of Excellence Accreditation from Foodbanks Canada
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Food Bank was one of the nation’s first food banks to receive Standards of Excellence accreditation from Food Banks Canada.
The Associations Preside…
00:05:38 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Folk U: Your Brain - on Trauma with special guest Wendy D’Andrea
Manda Aufochs Gillespie /Folk U - Psychologist and scientist, Wendy D’Andrea does research that looks at the impacts of acute trauma (such as a car crash) versus chronic trauma (such as abuse) and wh…
01:45:52 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Folk U Two, August 25 2025 Esther Shalev-Gevz
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -On August 25, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Esther Shalev-Gerz, a renowned artist who has exhibited all around the world. Tune in for insights from…
01:51:46 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Folk U Radio, August 22 2025
Manda AUfochs Gillespie/ Folk U -Thanks for joining us on August 22, 2025 for another week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show, happening on Fridays fro…
01:33:18 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Sandcastle Day 2025 on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A hundred people turned out for Cortes Island’s Sandcastle Day on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025.
“It was a blast because all the families are so involved and all the kids…
00:04:22 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
Final Cortes Food Bank Trying To Raise $35,000 For Move To A Perminent Home
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The Cortes Food Bank is trying to raise the $35,000 needed to relocate their base of operations to two sea-cans in the Village Commons at Manson's Landing.
Operations Ma…
00:10:28 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Funding For The Whaletown Dock's Coming Facelift, & Aug 30 Dockswap
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Harbour Authority Cortes Island (HACI) received the necessary funding to carry out needed upgrades to the 111-year-old dock in Whaletown. In today’s article Harbour Mas…
00:11:41 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Purchasing an Early Wildfire Detection System for Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Cortes Island is close to raising the funds for a wildfire detection system that identifies fires within minutes of their inception. In today’s interview Claudia van der…
00:09:46 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
August 2025 update from Rainbow Ridge
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Mark Lombard from the Cortes Housing Society recently gave an update on progress at the Rainbow Ridge Affordable Housing Project.
“At this point we're well along the wa…
00:17:44 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
First Days at the Nook; Final Touches
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A lot has happened in the five months since Tomaaso Biasiolo became the Outreach and Admin Coordinator for ‘the Nook’ in Cortes Island’s Village Commons. The Grand Openi…
00:08:18 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Explanations of Legal Issues that affect Cortes
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On August 11, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Nawel Izard, a Campbell River lawyer who cares deeply about community. Tune in for insights from her wo…
01:22:13 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Live and Local on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Live and Local is more than a Tideline page, although the Tideline page advertises all of the shows on Cortes Island from Gorge Harbour Marina, Manson's Hall, Gorge Hall …
00:09:01 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Gleanings from Lovefest 2025
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Lovefest 2025 was at Linnaea Farm on Saturday August 9th.
Cortes Currents wandered through the crowd asking people about Lovefest and why they kept coming back. In the…
00:07:16 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Folk U- An August 4 update from Rainbow RIdge
Manda AUfochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On August 4, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Sadhu Johnston, who gave an update on the developments happening at Rainbow Ridge, on behalf of the Cor…
01:57:17 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
New Virus Associated With (But Not Causing) Mass Oyster Die-Offs
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - UBC researchers found a new virus in farmed Pacific Oysters that perished during a mass die-off in 2023.
During the die-off, researchers collected 33 dead oysters as w…
00:03:28 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Aspen King Plays at the Village Commons
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - July 25, 2025 was the fourth week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show, happening on Fridays from 1 - 2:30pm on the new …
01:34:11 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Folk U: Dr Eric Posen talks about Naturopathy, Health, and Healing
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On July 21, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Dr. Eric Posen to discuss naturopathy, health, and healing. This conversation unpacks what naturopathic d…
01:39:36 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Kaia Bryce and Adrian Esau in the Pavilion July 11 2025
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - July 11, 2025 was the second week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show, happening on Fridays from 1 - 2:30pm on the new …
01:34:38 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Folk U Radio July 18 2025 Rick Bockner
Manda Aufochs Goillespie/ Folk U - July 18, 2025 was the third week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show, happening on Fridays from 1 - 2:30pm on the new…
01:27:35 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
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