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
- 521
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Anonymous donor gives 250k for Cortes residents in need
Louis Belcourt/ CKTZ News - An anonymous donor has donated around $250,000 to create a one time, experimental grant program that gives directly to the Cortes community.
The Cortes Island Community F…
00:05:51 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Proposed Open Fire Ban & moving towards a Dog Control Service
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Regional Director Mark Vonesch brought two Cortes Island motions before the SRD Board on Wednesday, September 13. Both were passed with no opposing votes. The first was…
00:05:54 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
A new semester at the Cortes Island Academy
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Academy kicked off its second year with a ‘meet and greet’ barbeque on Tuesday, September 5. Students and homestay parents met with some of the people…
00:08:04 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
The fate of 3 wharves in Area C
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been nine years Transport Canada (TC) transferred administration of three wharves in Discovery Islands-Mainland Inlets (Area C) to the Strathcona Regional Distri…
00:04:44 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
Folk U: Open Mic at Friday Live Music
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - The tenth and last concert in the Friday Live Music Series was an open mic afternoon. Welcoming in the fall on September 1st in the Village Commons tent, the event wa…
01:47:12 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Folk U: Basil at Friday Live Music
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On Friday August 25th, Basil performed the ninth concert in the Friday Market Live Music Series. An island singer-songwriter, their music was beautiful and heartfelt…
01:19:40 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Greg Osoba comes to Folk U Radio
Greg Osoba comes to Folk U Radio by Cortes Currents (https://cortescurrents.ca/)
00:59:40 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Paul Muskee on Klahoose Aquaculture & QXMC
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Paul Muskee has been working for QXMC for close to 15 years and the last decade of that has been with Klahoose Aquaculture.
“I feel like my life has led me this way. …
00:10:07 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
A blueprint for Cortes Island's future: Why the Conversation Cafes are important
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA) is hosting an in-person community discussion with Cortes Island’s small businesses in the Pioneer Room at …
00:07:57 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
Ann Mortifee: A 3 year pilgrimage & returning to music
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - (The second is a series of interviews with Ann Mortifee, click here to access part one.)
Ann Mortifee seemed to be on the verge of a breakthrough few artists even dre…
00:26:06 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
At the Cortes Library: Insects a Presentation
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Sean Nightingale, from Wild Cortes, will be giving a presentation about insects, at the Cortes Island Regional Library from 5:30 to 7;00 tonight.
00:07:35 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
Dreaming I am Ann
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The first in a series on interviews:
Ann Mortifee is probably the most famous musician on Cortes Island, which is more of a compliment than it sounds like because the…
00:28:56 |
Mon 04 Sep 2023
QXMC: Search for a new General Manager
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - QXMC, the Klahoose First Nation development company, is looking for a new General Manager.
“We’ve retained a search company that has a great track record of looking …
00:07:02 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
QXMC: The Squirrel Cove Project
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been almost two years since a parcel of land the Klahoose acquired in Squirrel Cove was added to the reserve. Shortly after that, the Klahoose development corpo…
00:04:16 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
nate hagen interview consolidated
Louis Belcourt/ CKTZ News - Cortes Island's Manson's Hall will be host to a live production of "The Great Simplification" podcast this Monday evening for the first time.
"The Great Simplification" i…
00:12:49 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
What’s been happening with the renovations at Gorge Harbour
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - t has been about seven months since operations at Klahoose Gorge Harbour were scaled back due to a need for extensive renovations. While much of it is not visible to th…
00:12:48 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
Erin Robinsong's reading
Recorded by Bill Weaver - Erin Robinsong's reading at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Marnie's Book
00:10:29 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Norm Gibbons: The beginnings of cultivated oysters, landscaping and novels
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - By 1979, Norm Gibbons wanted a change. He had been one of the partners in the Refuge Cove Store for the past eight years. He had not yet decided to move to Cortes Isla…
00:10:49 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Nancy Beach vs the Property Assessment Review Panel
Submission by Nancy Beach - The opinions that follow are those of the person expressing them and not necessarily shared by Cortes Currents, or Cortes Radio.
The following submission was made by Na…
00:02:09 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Audio of 'BC Assessment v. Nancy Beach'
Audio from meeting recorded and submitted by Nancy Beach
01:00:51 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
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