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
Transit workers in Comox and Campbell River on strike
MIck Sweetman/ CHLY 101.7FM - Transit workers in Comox and Campbell River went on strike Friday morning citing wages as the key reason for the job action.
While this shuts down public transportation…
00:02:47 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Cortes Island's First Firefighters Dinner
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - More than 100 people turned up at Mansons Hall on Friday, December 15, for Cortes Island’s first firefighters dinner.
"It was wonderful to be able to thank the firefi…
00:05:41 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Klahoose Tenure Purchase
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - In late 2023, Klahoose First Nation completed a “landmark deal” to purchase a total tenure of 181,036 cubic metres of allowable annual cut (AAC), on forest lands located …
00:03:50 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Doug McCaffry's Heaven: Coffee and Films
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The first time many Cortes Island residents heard of Doug McCaffrey was when he and his wife, Melanie, took over Becca's beans. Prior to that they were living in centr…
00:13:58 |
Sun 17 Dec 2023
Correcting misinformation about the SRD Housing Service
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Former Regional Director Jim Abram may have been confusing the proposed SRD Housing Service with a Federal grant program when he criticized it during an interview with C…
00:05:39 |
Sat 16 Dec 2023
Folk U: Daniel Lindenberger, from UBC’s Emerging Media Lab, talks about AI
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Daniel Lindenberger, of Thaumazo and UBC’s Emerging Media Lab, joined us over Zoom on the December 1st FolkU Friday session to lead a fascinating presentation and di…
01:14:13 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
The Awakeneers new single: December in the North
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Awakeneers are still living in Willow Point and have just released a new single. Cortes Currents interviewed them over ZOOM and we had our cameras turned off to pre…
00:09:34 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
SRD Concerns about BC's new Emergency and Disaster Management Act
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) has some serious concerns about BC’s new Emergency and Disaster Management Act, which came into effect on November 8.
Accordin…
00:08:13 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Award Winning Documentary 'Once You Know' Showing At Quadra Community Centre
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Emmanuel Cappellin’s award winning documentary "ONCE YOU KNOW" is showing at the Quadra Community Centre on Saturday December 16 at 7 pm.
This film is the winner of …
00:04:34 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Changes coming to the ferries in 2027
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - BC Ferries announced a series of changes coming in 2027, including new vessels for the Campbell River and Cortes Island routes and the next steps towards electrifying …
00:08:50 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
SRD Open House Dec 2023
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - On Monday December 11th, four SRD staff came to Cortes to hold a local zoning hearing at noon, followed by a three hour open house starting at 1pm. Cortes residents were …
00:03:54 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
First Cortes Community Meal
KIm Paulley/ CKTZ News - Cortes Island’s first community meal took place at Mansons Hall on Dec. 7, an event which hopefully will be the first of many in the coming year.
Ester Strijbos, coordinator…
00:08:22 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
CKTZ - News - 3-dec - 21 - Beccas - Beans - New - Owners
Anastasia Avvakumova/CKTZ News - Becca’s Beans, a local coffee business started by Becky and Scott Knutson in 2008, is now in the enthusiastic care of Doug and Melanie McCaffry.
The couple moved to …
00:09:10 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
What the Cortes Housing Survey says: problems and possible solutions
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Two hundred and sixty-five people (265) filled out responses to the Cortes Island Housing survey which was carried out by the Cortes Community Housing Society and Regio…
00:12:11 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Nanaimo celebrates first night of Chanukah
Mick Sweetman / CHLY 101.7FM - Nanaimo’s Jewish community marked the first night of Chanukah with the lighting of a giant Menorah at Maffeo Sutton Park.
Organized by Chabad of Nanaimo the event at…
00:04:45 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Conversation Cafe, Food Security
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents -CCEDA continued its series of Conversation Cafés on Thursday December 7th at the Gorge Hall, to discuss the issue of "food security on Cortes Island." Facilitated by Coli…
00:10:14 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
ChildrensForest20K'23
Kim Paulley/ CKTZ News - The Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society (FTCCIS) had its "best year ever” on Giving Tuesday last week, according to chair Chris Dragseth, with $20,000 fund…
00:09:27 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
FOCI's recomendations for revising Cortes Island's Official Community Plan
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On Monday, Dec 11, the Strathcona Regional District will be holding an open house on updating Cortes Island’s zoning bylaws at Manson’s Hall. This is the first of a ser…
00:13:01 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
A Vintage Christmas at the Museum
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - This Saturday, December 9th, between 11 AM until 4 PM, the Cortes Island Museum will be holding Vintage Christmas.
00:04:14 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Laurel Bohart and Donna Collins: winners of this year's Jo Ann Green Award
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Laurel Bohart and Donna Collins were the recipients of this year’s Jo Ann Green Award.
"We thought they encapsulated what the Joanne Green Award is about. We had a nu…
00:07:27 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
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