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
Cortes Virtual Housing Forum: Increasing Rentals
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Viewers from Cortes, Salt Spring and Galiano Islands down to the cities of Victoria and Vancouver logged in to the virtual Cortes Housing Forum on Friday June 14, 2024…
00:27:33 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Cortes Housing Society x FolkU Virtual Transportation Forum
Sadhu Johnston. Cortes Housing Society - Tune in on June 14 for this special pre-recorded episode of FolkU Radio. This week featured the May Transportation Forum, hosted over Zoom and presented by th…
01:30:29 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
A Cortes Island Style Forum for Rental and Ownership Opportunities
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents Cortes Island’s Forum on ‘Rental and Ownership Opportunities’ came to Mansons Hall on Thursday June 13. There were breakout groups on what people were looking for in rent…
00:17:38 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
The Uncertain Future of BC's Fish Farms
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The future of fish farms in British Columbia is uncertain. On June 7, Judge Paul Favel supported the Ministry of Fisheries decision to not renew the licenses of 15 fish…
00:09:04 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Will Rendall: Keep On Smiling
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Will Rendall released a CD called Keep on Smiling on May 22, 2024.
Some Cortes Island residents will remember him as Julia Rendall’s son. He was 7 when he moved to Sq…
00:16:52 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
The 2024 Creative Spaces Garden and Studio Tour on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Creative Spaces Garden and Studio Tour is Saturday June 22, from 10 am to 4 pm. This is an annual fundraiser for the Cortes Island Museum, as well as a showcase of …
00:05:15 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Cortes 2024 Island-wide Beach Clean-up
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The first truckload was filled over the roofline with beach debris. Sam Gibb drove into the Klahoose village shortly after 10:30 AM on Saturday. Alex Bernier, followed …
00:06:36 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
Opening Night of the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery’s 2024 Season
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Eighty-three people turned out on Friday June 7, for the gala opening night of the Old School Art Gallery’s 2024 season. This was a group show, with 28 contributing art…
00:09:39 |
Mon 10 Jun 2024
FireSmart is coming to Cortes, June 11 to 13
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District will be carrying out FireSmart assessments on Cortes Island between Tuesday, June 11, and Thursday June 13. This is a free evaluation o…
00:08:16 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
Discovery Island Organizations Receiving $215,000 From The Community Prosperity Fund
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Vancouver Foundation, in partnership with the Government of BC, Community Foundations of Canada and over 50 local community foundations, is distributing $25 million…
00:14:55 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
Town Hall Meeting: The Cortes Airstrip
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - About 125 people turned up for the town hall meeting in Mansons Hall, on Monday June 3, 2024. Noticeably absent were the air strip’s owner, Michael Ching, his manager, …
00:10:12 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Getting Ready for Love Fest 2024
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Ben Coey is co-producing this year’s Lovefest, which returns to Linnaea Farm on Saturday August 19th.
“Rex, Amy and Rick have been running and producing the festival…
00:05:41 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Folk U looks at Community Land Trusts
Sadhu Johnston/ Folk U - Tune in on May 31st for the third collaborative monthly housing forum presented by the Cortes Housing Society and Folk University. Themed “Community Land Trusts”, this forum …
01:08:49 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
Folk U talks about Grief
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On Friday May 24, host Manda Aufochs Gillespie was joined by songwriter Jemma Hicken and founder of the DeathCaring Collective, Margaret Verschuur, in a program abo…
01:55:41 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
Tales from Land Conservancies on Cortes, Quadra &15 Other Islands
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In 2021 Sheila Harrington embarked upon a three-year journey to explore the creation of local nature conservancies on 17 islands. Cortes and Quadra Islands were among t…
00:11:53 |
Sun 02 Jun 2024
Transport Canada Responds To Questions About Renovations Underway on Cortes Airstrip
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Given the amount of neighbourhood concern about the renovations underway at the Cortes Island airstrip, Cortes Currents asked Transport Canada:
Do the owners of priva…
00:02:25 |
Wed 29 May 2024
Three Development Proposals On Quadra Island
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At the May 22 meeting, Director Mawhinney informed the board, “the Area C Advisory Planning Commission met and discussed this Kanish Bay application and the following U…
00:04:16 |
Tue 28 May 2024
The need more electricity in an expanding EV market
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - British Columbia is feeling the strain of a rapidly expanding EV market.
On January 11, 2024, BC Hydro stated there are more than 150,000 EVs on the province’’s road…
00:02:14 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Dave Blinzinger: The Art, The Islands And Making A Living
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Dave Blinzinger has toured Canada, the United States and Europe but, by choice, primarily plays his saxophone at local venues.
“I'm from St. Louis, Missouri. My fathe…
00:18:56 |
Mon 27 May 2024
The Expanding Local Market For Solar Power
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A Cortes Island based solar company has been installing more systems that tie into the grid.
There is a lot of potential for solar energy production in British Columb…
00:17:02 |
Mon 27 May 2024
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