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
Shout Out From Tanille Johnston
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The election writ was dropped Sunday and the following day Cortes Currents published responses from the candidates in our riding. As they were either emails or excerpts …
00:01:06 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Phase 1 At Rainbow Ridge_ Logs, Branches and Other Wood Debris
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A four acre clearing was carved out of the forest in downtown Mansons Landing to make way for the Rainbow Ridge Affordable Housing Development. A crew was busy piling th…
00:04:11 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Phase One At Rainbow Ridge_ Boundaries With The Senior's Village And Firehall
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There were a couple of changes in the plan for the Rainbow Ridge Affordable Housing Development as the site was cleared. A small parcel of land along the northern border…
00:08:12 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
2025 MicroGrants 4 Neighbours Program on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - mmanuel McKenty is the new face of the Cortes Island Microgrants 4 Neighbours Program.
When this ZOOM interview began, he was sitting in a room that looked very simila…
00:11:36 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Mascon By TELUS Cuts Off Some Cortes Island customers, CityWest Update
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Mascon by TELUS informed at least 10 Cortes Island residents that their internet service will be terminated on June 2, 2025.
A dozen people were chatting about it on th…
00:08:19 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Pembina Institute Explains Need For Emissions Cap On Oil And Gas Sectors
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, the oil and gas sector is a major contributor to Canada’s economy, employing 182,000 people and generating $209 billi…
00:07:24 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Land Sharing on Folk U
Sadhu Johnston/Cortes Housing Society - Tune in on March 14th for another collaborative monthly housing forum presented by the Cortes Housing Society, and supported by Folk University. Themed “Land S…
01:15:43 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Polls suggest Liberals may be on their way to forming a majority government
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - As Canada prepares for an election, which may be called sometime before parliament is recalled on March 24, polls show the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical ti…
00:03:47 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Wave and Range Cortes Island Broadening Out Into The Community
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Wave and Range Cortes Island has decided it's time to go public.
“This year we're going to be putting on the Cortes adventure challenge, essentially a Cortes triathlon…
00:09:18 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
RIEP Presentation_ Affordable Housing Across The Islands
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - One of the 2025 RIEP Virtual Forum presentations was a panel discussion of how the affordable housing societies were faring on eight rural islands. There were a lot of c…
00:26:57 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
RIEP Presentation_ Identifying Ways To Further Support The Success Of BC’s Indigenous economy_
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - One of the most popular presentations at RIEP’s 2025 Virtual forum was Former Green Party MLA Adam Olsen’s identification of ways to further support the success of BC’s …
00:19:22 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
RIEP Presentation: Us tariffs & How Island Economies Can Respond
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Around 100 people signed up for the Rural Islands Economic Partnership 2025 Virtual Forum. At least 10 were from Cortes Island and there were others from Quadra, Texada…
00:15:32 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Disruptions of CityWest’s Services on Cortes and Quadra Islands
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - CityWest’s internet service for Cortes Island was cut off again, sometime after 10:44 on Saturday, March 8, and not restored until after 9:00 on Monday, March 10. This …
00:03:25 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Unexpected Detours, Chance Encounters, & Other Travel Adventures
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On March 7, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by a group of Cortesians as they swapped stories of unexpected detours, chance encounters, and the adventur…
01:59:20 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Jennifer Lash on Mark Carney's Election As The Liberal Party's New Leader
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - On Sunday, March 9th, the Liberal Party chose Mark Carney as their new leader.
While there have been no polls taken since his election, EKOS carried out a survey just p…
00:02:50 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
Jennifer Lash, the Liberal Candiate for North Island-Powell River
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Jennifer Lash has been working at the intersection of the economy, ocean conservation, climate change and reconciliation for the past 27 years. She founded two non-prof…
00:12:29 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
A Peek into Big Oils Lobbying Playbook with Environmental Defence
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Environmental Defence just released a report showing that last year oil and gas company lobbyists were targeting the Conservative Party, in preference to the Canadian Go…
00:13:47 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Cold Water Swimming on Folk U
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On February 28, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Carrie Saxifrage, Jane Newman, and Karen McDiarmid, to chat about cold swimming. Are you curious abou…
01:58:48 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Coming This Week _The Rural Islands Economic Partnership Virtual Forum
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The 2025 Rural Islands Economic Partnership (RIEP) Virtual Forum is coming up Thursday and Friday, March 6th and 7th.
Two of the organizers, Francine Carlin and Kate M…
00:12:39 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Polls Suggest Gap Narrowing Nationally, And In Our Riding
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - After trailing far behind in the polls for the better part of two years, the Liberal party’s propects appear to be on the rise nationally, and the gap between the Conser…
00:02:34 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
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