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
- 524
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
SRD Wants A List Of School District Properties For Potential Housing Development
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) wants a list of School District 72’s properties on Cortes Island and Area C. As Regional Director Robyn Mawhinney pointed out, in …
00:05:45 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Genealogical Records for Klahoose, European and Asian Cortes Island Families
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Museum has a genealogical database. It was compiled by Bernice McGowan, whose interest in genealogy was sparked by her mother’s research of their fami…
00:11:36 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
Cortes Island Academy's Third Year starts Sept 3
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Academy’s third year starts on Tuesday September 3, 2024. Executive DIrector Manda Aufochs Gillespie explained that there are a number of innovative ne…
00:06:16 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Sean Coyote performs in the Village Commons
Greg Osoba/Folk U - On Friday, August 16, Sean Coyote performed a live + live-broadcast FolkU concert in the big Village Commons tent. Hosted by Greg Osoba, Sean is a long-time Cortes resident who ha…
01:09:00 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Heather Deeth: Hollyhock's New Iterim Executive Director
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - As of this morning, Heather Deeth has been the Interim Executive Director of Hollyhock for 19 days. Cortes Currents caught up with her on Sunday to talk about the chang…
00:16:38 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Deep Breath: How Andrea Padovani Sees Cortes Island
Roy L Hales - Andrea Padovani is a professional artist who has been living on Cortes for much of the last 17 years, but there is a sense in which his show ‘Deep Breath,’ which opens in the Old School…
00:14:41 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Help Power the Tower for CKTZ
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - CKTZ is looking for donors to help power the tower during 2024 and 2025.
Cortes Currents caught up with Bryan McKinnon, station manager and President of CKTZ, while he…
00:04:51 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Demonstration temporarily delays access to Cortes Airstrip
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Earlier this year, the Cortes Island community learned that there were renovations underway at the island's old gravel airstrip. At a town hall meeting last June, aroun…
00:11:25 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Witch Pop performs in the Village Commons
Louis Belcourt/ Folk U -On Friday, August 9, WITCH POP performed a live + live-broadcast FolkU concert in the big Village Commons tent. Hosted by Louis Belcourt, WITCH POP emerges as a new duo of Hea…
01:03:04 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Stories from Love Fest 2024
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Brenda Hansen, with her brother Dwayne and Kenny Hanuse, greeted the audience of Love Fest 2024 with the ‘Klahoose Welcome Song.’ (You can listen to it, sung in the ʔayʔ…
00:28:55 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
What the Cortes/Quadra Passenger Transportation Survey Discovered
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - 283 people from Cortes, Quadra and the Outer Island’s as well as some visitors participated in CCEDA’s passenger transportation survey. They were asked about a variety …
00:12:48 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
Cortes Community Forest receives funding for Wildfire Protection Plan
Louis Belcourt/CKTZ News - The Cortes Community Forest Cooperative has obtained funding to implement two wildfire risk reduction projects in the community forest, a project that’s been in the works f…
00:08:59 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Final touches before Lovefest 2024
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A crew of seven volunteers was just starting to put up the stage, when Cortes Currents arrived at Linnaea Farm on Wednesday. The doors to Love Fest 2024 will open at 11…
00:07:19 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Johnny Hanuse at the Village Commons
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On Friday, August 2, Johnny Hanuse performed a live + live-broadcast FolkU concert in the big Village Commons tent.
The Village Commons Music Series is put on every …
01:39:02 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
Calma Sailing Story LB
Louis Belcourt/CKTZ News - A local sailing company “Calma Sailing” is offering a free sailing course aimed at providing Indigenous and lower-income people an opportunity to learn the sport.
“I think…
00:04:31 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Proposed Gowland Harbour Development Defeated
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Rick and Cheryl Schellinck have been trying to obtain approval to subdivide their Quadra Island property, as the first step towards development, since 2011. The most rec…
00:05:25 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Josie Simpson performs in Village Commons Music Series
Greg Osoba/Folk U - On Friday, July 26, Josie Simpson performed a live + live-broadcast FolkU concert in the big Village Commons tent. Hosted by Greg Osoba, singer-songwriter Josie Simpson draws from…
01:08:40 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
SRD Considering A Grant in Aid Policy; Mawhinney, Whalley & Vonesch opposed
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District Board SRD is considering amending the Grant in Aid process. A proposed ‘Financial Assistance to Organizations’ policy from 2021 is being…
00:05:08 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Peter Wrinch stepping down as CEO of Hollyhock
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Peter Wrinch is stepping down from his position as CEO of Hollyhock.
"My last day will be July 31st this year. That will be exactly seven years, to the day," he explai…
00:06:40 |
Sun 28 Jul 2024
Calling For A Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program in BC
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - In 2008, the city of Berkely had a problem. They wanted to hasten the adoption of solar technology, but the $20,000 to $30,000 bill was too steep for a lot of homeowners…
00:16:51 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
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