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
Construction coming to the Common Areas of Mansons Landin
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Close to 50 people turned up at Mansons Hall on January 24, for an update on the construction coming or already underway in the downtown Mansons area. The Cortes Housing…
00:16:50 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Cortes Island’s Community Meal Pogram
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There is a community meal somewhere on Cortes Island every week.
“A warm bowl of soup, or a stew, that’s at the heart of it. Then there's always some sort of fresh veg…
00:06:50 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Petition Against Making Quadra Residents Pay For REC-CREATE Strathcona Gardens
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A timeline on the REC-REATE – Strathcona Gardens Revitalization Project website traces the origins of this project back to an operational review in 1998. At that time, m…
00:06:49 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
Area C Taxpayers Resistant to paying for Strathcona Gardens Re-Development
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Campbell River’s Strathcona Gardens is in the midst of re-development. Following a successful Alternative Approval Process (APP) in Campbell River and Area D, whose resi…
00:07:25 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Part 5 of 5)
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - The grand finale of a series of interviews in which Rex Weyler offers his personal memories of the early Greenpeace campaigns and of Paul Watson, who became a lifelong fr…
00:15:43 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Part 4 of 5)
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - The fourth in a series of interviews in which Rex Weyler offers his personal memories of the early Greenpeace campaigns and of Paul Watson, who became a lifelong friend.
00:14:07 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Paul Watson: Activiest, Pirate, Friend (Part 3 of 5)
De Clarke/CityWest - In the third of a series of five programs, Rex Weyler talks about Captain Paul Watson, some of the personality dynamics onboard the Greenpeace vessal and blockading the Russian w…
00:15:39 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Part 2 of 5)
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - The second in a series of five broadcasts in which Rex Weyler offers his personal memories of the early Greenpeace campaigns and of Paul Watson, who became a lifelong frie…
00:14:12 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Short Term Rentals must be registered by May 1, 2025
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There are approximately 100 short term rentals, collectively earning between $1million and $5 million a year, on Cortes Island. At of the end of 2021, there were 177 on …
00:03:17 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Cortes Island Residents Waiting for CityWest To Connect Them
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - This is Roy Hales with Cortes Currents and as the data for the following report was almost exclusively collected by email or phone, the only voice in the following repor…
00:07:09 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Podcast 1 of 5)
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - In December 2024, the environmental activist Paul Watson was freed by Danish authorities from detention in Greenland. He had been held there due to an Interpol red-notic…
00:15:37 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Time Travelling To 2040 With The Cortes island Academy
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Academy’s third semester is wrapping up and in this year’s end showcase the students are taking the audience on an imaginative visit to the year 2040. …
00:06:22 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
MaxShellfishRecording_Jan9_Edited
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On January 9, 2025, Max Thaysen and Erik Lyon hosted a hands-on workshop on all things shellfish! This fantastic teaching team chatted harvesting, sustainability, ide…
01:14:21 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
The Cortes Housing Society looks back to things accomplished in 2024 and what's ahead in 2025
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Community Housing Society will soon break ground on Rainbow Ridge. They are also renting out two houses, are about to explore the possibility of a tiny house …
00:12:14 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Proposed Campbell River Bylaw for Nusance Lighting
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - On January 9, 2025, Campbell River’s City Council gave first and second readings to a public nuisance amendment bylaw intended to prevent floodlighting, spotlighting and…
00:11:47 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
Green Party Candidate Jessica Wegg talks about the coming election
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Election fever seems to be in the air again and in the first of a series of interviews with the candidates, Cortes Currents talked with Jessica wig the green party can…
00:08:11 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
From Shore to Table Workshop on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Max Thaysen and Erik Lyon led a shellfish harvesting workshop in Mansons Lagoon on Thursday January 9, 2024. This was a free event sponsored by the Cortes Island Commun…
00:09:58 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
On the Threshold of a 1.5°C World
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -While there is some disagreement as to whether we have passed the 1.5°C threshhold set at COP 21 in Paris, scientists agree that we are on the brink and 2024 was the hott…
00:04:31 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
The Documentary Salmon Secrets Comes To Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - French filmmaker Jérémy Mathieu’s award winning documentary ‘Salmon Secrets,’ will be coming to Gorge Hall at 1 PM on Sunday, January 12.
This 40 minute film was pr…
00:08:41 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Turning Down the Heat Part 2: It's Time to Kick Some Ass
Max Thaysen/Climate Action Network - When filmmaker Jon Cooksey talks about kicking ass in his frog-boiling film, he's referring to the application of pressure, embarrassing, shedding light on the pe…
00:16:14 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
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