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Cortes Currents

Cortes Currents (https://cortescurrents.ca/)

Cortes Currents is a news platform that asks what"s current in Cortes and the Discovery Islands. Web articles & radio podcasts: Cortes Island, Quadra Island, Discovery Islands, Campbell River: news, lifestyle, local politics, affordable housing, economy, food security, health, ferries, tourism, history, culture, environmental issues, sustainable forestry, oyster farming, the arts, First Nations, energy, climate change, overshoot

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00:07:25

Area C Taxpayers Resistant to paying for Strathcona...

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/23

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 residents use this complex, in 2023 the Board authorized borrowing up to $64.6 million for this project. Crews are currently building the foundations. The SRD is exploring the possibility of using Area C property tax dollars to support this complex, but has not yet decided upon a course of action. This

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00:15:43

Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Part 5 of 5)

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/23

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 friend.

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00:14:07

Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Part 4 of 5)

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/22

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.

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00:15:39

Paul Watson: Activiest, Pirate, Friend (Part 3 of 5)

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/22

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 whaling fleet.

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00:14:12

Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Part 2 of 5)

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/22

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 friend.

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00:03:17

Short Term Rentals must be registered by May 1, 2025

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/21

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 Quadra. As of May 1st, all Airbnbs and short-term rentals in BC have to register with the provincial government. “It's a process where the provincial government is asking short term rental operators and short term rental platform operators to register. Then they're going to cross reference and use

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00:15:37

Paul Watson: Activist, Pirate, Friend (Podcast 1 of 5)

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/21

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-notice (warrant) issued against him by the government of Japan. The Danish Ministry of Justice denied official requests to extradite Watson for trial in Japan, and he was released to rejoin his family. What did Paul Watson do that so angered the Japanese government? Watson, born in Canada, has spent most of

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00:07:09

Cortes Island Residents Waiting for CityWest To...

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/21

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 report is mine. CityWest started hooking Cortes Island residents up to the internet in December 2023, but many homes are still waiting. As the evidence is anecdotal, it is difficult to say how many people are currently connected through CityWest and how many are not. Sherman Barker just informed me that he

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00:06:22

Time Travelling To 2040 With The Cortes island Academy

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/19

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. It starts at 7:00 this Thursday, January 13, 2025 at Mansons Hall. “A really important part of the Cortes Island Academy is our year end showcase where the students are given the task of finding a way to share some of the learning that they've gone through in the semester in a form that is

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01:14:21

MaxShellfishRecording_Jan9_Edited

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/17

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, identification, risks and benefits of eating local shellfish, and so much more! This is a field-recording-style episode made possible by Decoda Literacy, the Cortes Island Community Foundation, and the Cortes Island Food Bank. Big thank you to Max and Erik. Folk U Radio is taking old school viral every

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00:12:14

The Cortes Housing Society looks back to things...

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/17

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 village, and hope to launch a homeshare program this summer. There is also news about the aquifer study, more online housing forums, the Cortes Island Trade Directory and Cortes Island’s vacant homes.“2024 was a banner year for us in many ways,” exclaimed Executive Director Sadhu Johnston. Bruin

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00:11:47

Proposed Campbell River Bylaw for Nusance Lighting

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/15

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 directional lighting from shining beyond the properties they protect onto residential areas. Council is giving the public to respond in writing before making a decision. Bylaw Services Manager (SM) Karl Read pointed out that it has been a year since Paula Burque asked the city to remedy this

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00:08:11

Green Party Candidate Jessica Wegg talks about the...

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/14

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 candidate for North Island-Powell River. “We have a chance now to show the world that we will not Follow the trend of electing conservative right wing governments out of fear because we're told that things are bad. We know that things are bad in some ways, but things are amazing and wonderful in so

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00:09:58

From Shore to Table Workshop on Cortes Island

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/13

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 Community Foundation, Decoda Literacy, and the Cortes Island Food Bank. Cortes Currents interviewed Max a few days prior to the workshop. “ I would love to support people to get more of their food from our local environment in a way that is ecologically sustainable and invited my friend Eric Lyon to join me

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00:04:31

On the Threshold of a 1.5°C World

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/11

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 hottest year on record.At COP 29 last November, Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) explained, “Children born today will not know a world without climate change. The IPCC has shown that we, and furthermore they, will live in a world marked by more intense storms,

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00:16:14

Turning Down the Heat Part 2: It's Time to Kick Some Ass

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/07

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 people and institutions that are doing bad things. He points to the fact that we have massive access to video and publishing resources, so we can be ass-kicking youtube stars (or tiktok if that's your jam). The theory is, if businesses or politicians get bad press coverage, they will change their ways

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00:08:04

Dance Temple Cortes

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/07

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, Sweat Your Prayers, there's a two page list or maybe a three page list of all the reasons. That's great, if that's your choice, but there's something to be said for getting over the resistance because there's no wrong way to dance. There's no wrong way to move. It's incredibly freeing to be in a space

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00:08:41

The Documentary Salmon Secrets Comes To Cortes Island

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/07

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 produced by Clayoquot Action, whose co-founders Bonny Glamback and Dan Lewis will be speaking at the screening. Mike Moore, President of the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI), stated, “The film is hosted by FOCI and our streamkeepers who have just done an incredible job working with the highways

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00:09:18

Biggest Christmas BIrd Count Ever

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/06

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 and Birds Canada. Thirty-nine walkers, cyclists, boaters, and people in cars participated in Cortes Islands 2024 Christmas Bird Count. This was the third time that more than 4,000 birds have been counted since the islands first Christmas Bird Count in 2001. A new record was set: 4,545 Birds were

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00:04:17

DFO Confirms No Problems With Raw Oysters From Cortes...

Cortes Currents ·

2025/01/01

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 with Cortes Island grown oysters. (And there have been no problems anywhere with cooked oysters.) Only one of the 8 emergency closures DF0 listed, in response to Cortes Currents request, is in the Discovery Islands. A DFO notice from December 23 states, “The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has

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