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
How the WE Wai Kai/ ICAN Partnership came into being
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The We Wai Kai Nation wanted to find out more about their water resources on Quadra Island when the ICAN water security team approached them about a possible partnershi…
00:04:48 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Schools of Squirrel Cove
Lynne Jordan/ Cortes Currents - At the beginning of the 1900s, Squirrel Cove on the east side of Cortes Island was a hub of activity for homesteaders, loggers, fishermen, miners and trappers. They ca…
00:11:12 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Monitoring Wells On Quadra Island
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A joint We Wai Kai/ ICAN Water Security team has been monitoring Quadra Island wells for the past month as part of a much larger project to calculate the island’s water…
00:07:09 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Four new BC Ferries vessels will operate solely as electric
Anastasia Avvakumova/ Cortes Currents - BC Ferries (BCF) is expanding its number of Island Class hybrid-electric vessels, with four more contracted to Damen Shipyards Group (Damen) as per their Jan. …
00:07:12 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Literary Afternoons with Carina
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Seniors Helping Seniors, in collaboration with the Cortes Museum and Archives, is once again presenting a series of monthly Literary Afternoons this winter. These events,…
00:11:31 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Mapping Wetlands on Quadra and what that means on Cortes
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The ICAN water security team and We Wai Kai Guardians are getting prepared to map Quadra Island’s wetlands. It is part of a much larger project which also involves monit…
00:09:52 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Studying The Water Budget For Quadra Island
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - ICAN’s water security team and the We Wai Kai First Nation have embarked upon an exploration of Quadra Island’s water systems.
While this is a Quadra study, everything…
00:06:16 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
housing, emergency management and resiliance
Sadhu Johnston/ Folk U - On January 12th, FolkU Friday was guest-hosted by Sadhu Johnston, who facilitated a discussion about rural resilience and emergency response. Joined in the station by Kate Ma…
01:31:21 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Conservation Officer Meets Cortes Island residents
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Conservation Officer Jillian Bjarnason came to Cortes on Saturday, January 13, 2024.
“I was invited over by the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) to do some public outr…
00:06:53 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
The 2023 Christmas Bird Count
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Museum has been sponsoring two birding events every year for the past two decades.* 2,873 birds were seen during the 2023 Christmas Bird Count, but th…
00:07:27 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
The Quadra Island Nut Tree Project's 3rd Planting
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Food security is a major concern in the Discovery Islands. 98.4% of the 245 respondents to a ‘Quadra Island Eating and Growing Local survery’ stated they wanted more a…
00:14:31 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Mark Vonesch's First Year In Office: Things Accomplished and In Progress
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Mark Vonesch is very passionate about Cortes Island and his activities as Regional Director. If this were a video, rather than a radio broadcast, you would see it in hi…
00:18:27 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Mawhinney looks back to this previous year in Area C, and looking a head to 2024
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Robyn Mawhinney has learned a lot since she was elected Regional Director almost 14 months ago. As we enter into yet another new year, she gave her reflections 2023 and…
00:09:00 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
Linda Solomon Wood: state of the media today
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On Friday, January 5, Linda Solomon Wood joined Manda Aufochs Gillespie on Folk U Radio to talk about the state of the media today.
Solomon has been a professional …
01:23:32 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
Problems with the refrigerants used in local heat pumps
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates, “heat pumps globally have the potential to reduce global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by at least 500 million tonnes …
00:08:37 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
CityWest Finally Delivers: Some Cortes Island Homes Already Receiving Service
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - CityWest has finally delivered on its promise to bring high speed fibre-optic internet to Cortes Island.
It has been five years since Victoria Smith, then the Strath…
00:03:28 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Canada's National Debt in 2023
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the National Debt is now close to $1.21 trillion dollars, which amounts to $30,602 per Canadian. The government expects …
00:04:39 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Fairy Creek Litigation 25m30s
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - In 2020, logging company Teal Jones was engaged in cutting irreplaceable, old-growth, temperate rainforest in the Fairy Creek area of their lease on Vancouver island. In …
00:25:30 |
Sun 31 Dec 2023
Rex Wyler CIA FOLKU Journalism 15-Dec-2023
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Writer, journalist, ecologist, and Cortesian Rex Weyler joined us on December 15th to chat about truth and bias. We discussed media literacy, checking our own biases…
00:59:15 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Canada's New Electric Vehicle Availability Standard
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On Tuesday, December 19, The Government of Canada announced a gradual phasing out of gas powered light vehicle sales until 2035, after which all new vehicles must be 10…
00:07:20 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
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