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
Preparations for Quadra Island's First Vital SIgns Report
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - In previous years, bits of Quadra and Cortes Island data have been incorporated in Campbell River’s Vital Signs Reports. This is the first year that both islands are col…
00:09:29 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Magic Mushrooms, Chronic Pain, and Healing
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On Friday, November 1, host Manda Aufochs Gillespie was joined by Rebecca Kirstein Resch, to chat about magic mushrooms, chronic pain, and healing. Tune in for a disc…
01:48:28 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Cortes Island's Proposed Multi-Use Sports Court
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Southern Cortes Community Association (SCCA) has partnered with several local sports to build a multi-use sport court beside the Cortes Island Skate Park. The propos…
00:04:56 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
Campbell River Place Names Proposal: Update
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - In September of this year, Currents reported on a proposal from Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ [pronounced Lee-gweeth-dowkh] Nations (We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum and Kwiakah) for the formal rena…
00:07:24 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
SRD To Meet With Cortes Housing Society About Possible Loan
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) will be meeting with the Cortes Housing Society to discuss the possibility of making a short term loan to help bring power, water a…
00:04:36 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Modification of SRD Agreement with Cortes Community Halls
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - In 2020, the Strathcona Regional Regional District SRD entered into a core funding agreement with the Southern Cortes Community Association (SCCA) and Whaletown Communi…
00:01:46 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
When TELUS Withdraws Pay Phone Service From Remote Communities
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The cell phone reception in Village Bay Lake is sketchy. Up until this summer, the little Quadra Island community’s only reliable telephone access was a pay phone in th…
00:04:08 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Campbell River Rail Yard Market_ 3 months on
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There has been a colourful addition to the Tyee Mall. The four brightly coloured boxcar-like units are a remembrance of Campbell River’s old logging railroads. They are …
00:13:56 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Ruby Singh & Michael Datura visit Folk U
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On Friday, October 25, host Manda Aufochs Gillespie was joined by musician Ruby Singh and musician and principal of the Cortes School Michael Datura, to chat about bi…
01:50:44 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
The Chum runs are better throughout most of our area
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There are more Chum swimming up Basil Creek than we’ve seen for years. According to Matthew Clarke of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Cortes Island isn’t the only place whe…
00:09:51 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Part one of DIY Trike Meets Builders needs
De Clarke/Cortes Currents -In 2019 and 2020, Cortes Currents ran a series of articles about e-bikes on the island, interviewing owners about the pros and cons of their electric-assisted rides. One of…
00:16:58 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Part Three of DIY e-Trike meets Builders needs
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - The conclusion of an interview with Gabriel Dinim about his experiences building and driving an
00:15:46 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Part Two of DIY e-Trike meets Builders needs
De Clarke/Cortes Currents - Part two of an interview with Gabriel Dinim about his DIY e Trike
00:16:28 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
The Chum return to Basil Creek
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Chum started returning to Basil Creek a week ago. To an inexperienced eye, the water levels seemed too low on the 16th, but dozens of large salmon were progressing u…
00:10:15 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
The 2024 Vital Signs Report For Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Community Foundation just published Cortes Island’s Vital Signs report.
“ When I started with the Community Foundation a few years ago, I was alrea…
00:17:58 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Odds of an NDP Majority
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A day before the election 338Canada is predicting a slight NDP majority.
338Canada is a campaign website that uses available polling data, each riding’s history, and p…
00:03:36 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Cortes Housing talks about Aquifers, Rental Opportunities & More
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There has been a lot going on at the Cortes Community Housing Society. They are starting to provide housing for the community, are supporting changes to the island’s byl…
00:11:54 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Deadline for Grants in Aid Applications - Friday
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Community Foundation is helping to review Grant-in Applications again. As in the past, the Strathcona Regional District Board will be dispersing a pool…
00:08:38 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Unedited audio from NDP candidate Michele Babchuk's visit
Bryan McKinnon/CKTZ - The unedited audio of Michele Babchuk's meeting with Cortes residents on Oct 12, 2024
01:46:49 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Michele Babchuk meets with Cortes Island voters
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - NDP incumbent Michele Babchuk came to Cortes Island Saturday, October 12, in the second in a series of meet the candidate events organized by FOCI’s Climate Action Commi…
00:27:39 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
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