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
Raising Waste Collection Fees, Funding Opportunities and a 5 Year Contract
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At their May 22 Board meeting, the Strathcona Regional Distrct (SRD) passed 3 important monetary decisions for Cortes Island.
Firstly, the SRD will be increasing the a…
00:02:10 |
Fri 24 May 2024
Carrie Saxifrage's Cimate Mitigation Presentation to the SRD Board
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Island author Carrie Saxifrage made a climate mitigation presentation at the May 22 SRD Board meeting. This is an abridged version of that talk.
She began with…
00:14:45 |
Fri 24 May 2024
SRD Asking Transport Canada About The Cortes Island Landing Strip
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -There were questions about what can be accomplished, but the SRD will be asking Transport Canada about the safety requirements, noise levels and frequency of planes usin…
00:08:32 |
Thu 23 May 2024
The SImon Fraser Field School Visits Folk U
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On Friday, May 17, Manda Aufochs Gillespie was joined by the Simon Fraser University field school that visited Cortes in the week of May 13-17 to chat about how ecos…
01:52:04 |
Wed 22 May 2024
From The Ground Up: Cortes Island Dwellings
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A new exhibition in the Cortes Island Museum looks at the island’s housing from pre-colonial times up until the present. ‘From the Ground Up: Cortes Island Dwellings An…
00:11:49 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Chief Darren Blaney: First Nations need to take over stewardship of Natural Resouces
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - More than 25 people turned out for the ‘Polycrisis Townhall-Party’ in the Klahoose Multi-purpose building on Friday, May 17. Chief Darren Blaney of the Homalco FIrst Na…
00:07:32 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Another 'Excellent' Seafest
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The official count isn’t in yet, but more than 300 people turned out for this year’s Seafest. This is the annual celebration and fund raiser of the Cortes Island Seafoo…
00:10:06 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Cortes Fire Department Preparing For The Worst Case Scenario
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Fire Department is preparing for what could be the driest summer on record. They have purchased more equipment, a new pumper truck, and are about to s…
00:13:10 |
Sun 19 May 2024
Bronwyn Claire Asha's one-woman theatre, Celtic folk music and storytelling
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Bronwyn Claire Asha is bringing her one woman theatre, Celtic folk music and storytelling show to Cortes and Quadra Islands this weekend. She’ll be playing in Mansons Ha…
00:21:05 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Study finds Bear meat is #4 in a wolf's diet
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Over the past few years there have been increasing reports of wolves preying on black bears. There have been no reports of this on Cortes Island, and a lot of residents …
00:02:21 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Supporting Cortes Island's Small Businesses
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In January, the Cortes Community Economic Development Association, or CCEDA, hired a Business Mentorship Coordinator. In the four months since then Tamlyn Collingwood h…
00:07:05 |
Thu 16 May 2024
Seafest Returning to Squirrel Cove Saturday, May 18
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Seafest will be returning to Squirrel Cove this Saturday, May 18, with delicious platefuls of locally grown and prepared seafood. with live music.
“ I think the fir…
00:06:03 |
Tue 14 May 2024
Cortes Foundation update: more grant opportunities; the shared social workplace & more
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Manda Aufochs Gillespie announced two new grant offerings, the new shared workplace in the Village Commons and much more, in a Cortes Island Community Foundation update…
00:12:09 |
Tue 14 May 2024
Water Housing Forum FolkUxCHS
Sadhu Johnston/ Cortes Community Housing - Tune in on May 10th for the second collaborative monthly housing forum hosted by the Cortes Housing Society and Folk University. Themed “Water Quality and Q…
01:37:33 |
Thu 09 May 2024
A Property For Cortes Island's New Land Trust & Other Housing Alternatives
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Community Housing purchased a property with two houses at 671 Sutil Point Road. This will be the first property to go into the island's new land trust, formed in…
00:08:43 |
Thu 09 May 2024
Transportation Solutions for Cortes, Quadra and the Outer Islands
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A new passenger transportation solutions project was launched for Cortes, Quadra and some of the Outer Islands. Kate Maddigan, of the Cortes Community Economic Developm…
00:13:20 |
Wed 08 May 2024
BC Ferries Consultation Apr 27th
De Clarke/ COrtes Currents - BC Ferries intends to upgrade their Heriot Bay and Whaletown terminals to accommodate new, higher-capacity “Island Class” ferries with the potential for all-electric oper…
00:20:18 |
Sun 05 May 2024
Before and After: Impacts of the "Hall Tax" on Gorge Hall (finale)
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - It has now been four and a half years since the 2019 referendum in which a solid majority of Cortes Islanders voted in favour of bylaw 341. This bylaw established a prope…
00:16:50 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Audio from the Homeshare Forum
Sadhu Johnston/ Folk U - Tune in on April 19th for the first collaborative monthly housing forum hosted by the Cortes Housing Society and Folk University. Themed “Homesharing”, this forum featured gu…
01:08:57 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
The Making of Sacred India
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Local filmmaker Jennifer Pickford found more than the spiritual paradise of her expectations, when she first visited India in 2008. She subsequently embarked upon the p…
00:14:00 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
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