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
Dance Temple Cortes
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Starting on Saturday, January 11th, Dance Temple Cortes will be held every two weeks in Manson's hole.
"Everyone has an excuse not to dance. In Gabriel Roth's book, …
00:08:04 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Biggest Christmas BIrd Count Ever
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Audobin Society has been holding Christmas Bird Counts across North America for the past 125 years. On Cortes Island it is co-sponsored by the Cortes Island Museum a…
00:09:18 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
DFO Confirms No Problems With Raw Oysters From Cortes Island
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - There has been a flurry of media stories about the dangers of eating raw oysters lately, but Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) confirmed that there have been no problems w…
00:04:17 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
Folk U- All things snow on Cortes Island
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On Friday December 27th Manda Aufochs Gillespie from Folk U and Jane Newman from the Cortes Island Museum teamed up to present stories of snow on Cortes. A festive ra…
01:29:05 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
Stonehenge_ Exhibition from a Sacred Place for All Britons
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Modern geneticists have shown us that the past is much closer than most of us realize. We carry the genetic coding from previous generations in our DNA and it can be tra…
00:09:07 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
Folk U-Michael Keith and Greg Osoba Chat About All Things Guitar
Greg Osoba/Folk U - On December 20, 2024, host Greg Osoba was joined by guitarist Michael Keith to chat about all things guitar: theory, terminology, sounds, effects, and practice. This is a fun, dem…
02:00:00 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Bulk Water Regulations for the Outer Islands
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - At their December 11 meeting, the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) Board passed a bylaw to regulate bulk water processing, bottling and sales on Maurelle, Sonora, Stua…
00:04:46 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Tiber Bay Residents Being Asked If They Want To Be Included In Cortes Fire Protection Area
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The 32 properties in Tiber Bay are one step closer to being included in the South Cortes Island fire protection area. They are currently outside the boundary and, conse…
00:03:11 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
New Major Vessels For A 21st Century Ferry Service
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -BC Ferries currently deploys 11 vessels on its major routes that connect Vancouver Island with the Lower Mainland. Six of these are decades old and nearing the end of the…
00:05:37 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
Cortes Island Food Bank Drive To Meet Rising Local Need
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - he Cortes Island Food Bank recently launched a food drive to meet unprecedented needs. Cortes Currents met with two of the charity’s key personnel in the garage where mo…
00:09:35 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
Political maneuvers_ SRD proposal to meet with the province about the allowable cut and other forestry matters
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - It has been 85 years since the Truck Loggers Association was founded to give independent loggers a collective voice in society and the forest industry. Now they would li…
00:07:57 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Folk U: All things circular economy and waste
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U -On December 6, 2024, Tina Willard-Stepan from Comox Strathcona Waste Management joined us to talk all things circular economy and waste. Along with the students of the…
01:06:39 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
Final count for Cortes island's 2024 Chum run
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -The final numbers for Cortes Island's 2024 Chum run are in. Local streamkeepers Cec and Christine Robinson gave a rundown.
Christine Robinson: “I think we all know that…
00:10:24 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
Poll Finds 54% of Canadians Support prioritizing Renewable Energy
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - 54% of the respondents to a new poll from Abacus Data stated they think Canada should prioritize the development of renewable energy, 36% would like to see a ‘balanced a…
00:09:57 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
Janie Wray_ Listening to the whales
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Over 100 people came to the Quadra Community Centre on December 7, to learn about the acoustic dialects and social connections of Orca, Humpback and Fin Whales. Sierra Q…
00:10:11 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
BC’s Productivity Emergency vs Rising GHG Emissions
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - With the rise of global emissions already at 1.4°C, we are currently on track to reach 2.8°C by the end of this century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I…
00:06:40 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
Fresh Homemade Pasta- Lunch with Trever Bass
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “ Lunch is duck tortellini, which is one of the smaller ravioli. It'll be floating in a broth of vegetable and parmesan rind that have been simmered for six hours. It'…
00:09:34 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Introducing Anna Kindy, MLA for North Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - t has been three weeks since Anna Kindy was sworn in as the Conservative Party MLA for North Island riding.
We actually had a long phone conversation shortly after her …
00:15:39 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Wildfire Mitigation in Squirrel Cove
Roy L Hales/COrtes Currents - There's a wildfire mitigation operation underway in the Community Forest near Squirrel Cove.
"This is something that we've been working on since 2018. It was identifi…
00:11:02 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Johnny Hanuse- Indigenous Governance, Decolonization & more
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On November 29, 2024, host Manda Aufoch’s Gillespie was joined by Klahoose council member and political science major Johnny Hanuse, to lead a conversation about ind…
01:39:30 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
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