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
- 522
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Cortes Island Opts in to BC Short Term Rental Act; Quadra Considering
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Effective May 1, 2024, all BC communities with a population over 10,000 have to limit short term rentals to the host’s principle residence plus one secondary suite or …
00:09:09 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
Seeking Electoral Consent for a Dog Control Service
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been 9 months since 106 Cortes Island residents petitioned the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) to set up a Dog control service bylaw. At their February 28th m…
00:03:17 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
FolkU-CIA Episode 3
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - What really matters most in the world? How will we help inspire the next generation of truth-seekers and truth-tellers? At the Cortes Island Academy we believe in th…
01:09:50 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Birds are smarker than you think
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Sandra Milligan has been teaching biology at North Island College, in Campbell River, for more than 20 years. She is an avid birder with deep roots in her local communi…
00:11:15 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
The Cortes Island Academy looks ahead to 2024/25
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Academy’s school year is over. Graduation was on January 25. Executive Director, Manda Aufochs Gillespie, just gave Cortes Currents an overview of the …
00:11:16 |
Thu 29 Feb 2024
Quadra Organizations Explore Possibilities For Working Together
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Representatives from at least 56 Quadra Island organizations came together at the Quadra Community Centre on Saturday, February 24. Close to 30 more were invited. Jenni…
00:12:18 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Green Party Leaders coming to Campbell River
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Canada is expected to have another Federal election in October 2025. Green party leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault launched their national campaign almost tw…
00:20:12 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Housing Society To Offer Event Series
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - From March through July of this year, Cortes Housing Society — in partnership with FolkU — is presenting a series of monthly forums featuring guest speakers and community…
00:13:39 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Federal Court Rules Canada Failed To Protect At Risk Birds In Old Growth Logging Areas
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A Federal Court ruled that Canada’s Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault, failed to protect habitats of at-risk migratory birds in old growth logging areas. Chief Ju…
00:07:29 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
CIA On FolkU - Episode 1
CIA/Folk U - What really matters most in the world? How will we help inspire the next generation of truth-seekers and truth-tellers? At the Cortes Island Academy we believe in the passion and skills …
01:29:13 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Strengthening Quadra Island’s Community Connections
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Quadra Island Foundation hopes to strengthen their island's community connections. They invited the island's charities and non-profits to a meeting at the Quadra Co…
00:05:30 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
The Scallop Rafts Being Built At Squirrel Cove
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Anyone visiting Squirrel Cove right now can see a series of freshly constructed rafts anchored close to the government dock. There were four of them when Cortes Currents…
00:02:39 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cortes Island Children's and Youth programs
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Community Health Association (CCHA) has been offering Youth Programs for more than 15 years. Serene Williams’ association goes back to 2009 when, shortly aft…
00:07:51 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Grant Writing Workshop
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - On February 12th at the Mansons Fire Hall, Sandra Wood and Kate Maddigan hosted a grant writing workshop for social profit organisations on Cortes Island. Kate and Sandr…
00:05:56 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Coming to Cortes & Quadra: a Poverty Reduction Plan for the SRD
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) received a $147,700 grant from the Union of BC Municipalities to prepare a region-wide poverty reduction plan. They will be holdi…
00:08:35 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
What They Heard: The Cortes Housing Report
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The ‘What We Heard Report,’ from Cortes Island’s Housing Forum and the subsequent Housing Survey, has been released.
“We already had a pretty good idea from previous…
00:17:18 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Community, Connection and Engagement on Quadra Island.
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - When Quadra ICAN held a community consultation last September, the central question was ‘what are the challenges the island will face as global temperatures warm up.’Th…
00:25:46 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
FOCI’s Create, Connect and Conserve series
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) summer programs have long been popular with tourists and summer. This year FOCI wanted to offer something for the year round communi…
00:06:54 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
BearSprayWorkshop 12m00s
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - FOCI launched their new ‘Create, Connect Conserve’ series on February 3rd at Linnaea Farm, with workshops on coexisting peacefully with wildlife. Bob Hansen of WildSafeB…
00:11:57 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Wolf Tales From Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Island's wildlife coexistence programs can be traced back to human/wolf conflicts in 2009. Local biologist Sabina Leader Mense reached out to Bob Hansen, then w…
00:09:40 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
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