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Cortes Currents
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
Episodes
Cortes CurrentsFour thought Leaders React to Canada's MOU with Alberta
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Canada’s MOU with Alberta, a proposed new pipeline in British Columbia, and the possible lifting of the tanker ban have been hot…
Cortes CurrentsLaunch of the Cortes Community Ecosystem Mapping Project’s Map Series
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Community Mapping Project recently launched its Cortes Island Map Series in Linnaea’s Lakeview Room. This morning’s…
Cortes CurrentsBC Hydro’s Peak Savings Program and Beyond
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A growing number of countries are experimenting with ways to integrate electric vehicle batteries and rooftop solar systems into…
Cortes CurrentsThe Face of Poverty on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -In 2015, the year Justin Trudeau was elected Prime Minister of Canada, more than 5 million Canadians were living in poverty. This…
Cortes CurrentsThe Art of Influence_ The how and why of Lobbying
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The recent Investigative Journalism Foundation exposé on lobbying, prior to Mark Carney’s first budget, fits a familiar pattern…
Cortes CurrentsSRD passed Cortes Island's zoning update
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The Strathcona Regional District Board passed the Cortes Island Zoning Bylaw. Regional Director Mark Vonesch gave an overview of…
Cortes CurrentsBaker acclaimed Chair, Vonesch elected Vice Chair of the SRD
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Mark Baker is once again acclaimed Chair and Mark Vonesch was selected as the new Vice Chair of the Strathcona Regional District…
Cortes CurrentsCortes EV Forum 2025
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - On October 31st, the Cortes Climate Action Network (CCAN) hosted an EV forum at Manson’s Hall, attracting over a dozen people. The…
Cortes CurrentsAre BC' forests getting 'Closer to the Brink?'
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Five years have passed since the provincial government’s Old Growth Review panel published its report on BC’s old growth forest…
Cortes CurrentsWhat did the Budget Mean for North Island Powell River_
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Monday November 17, 2025 - Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is expected to face another non-confidence motion today. This…
Cortes CurrentsAddye Susnick joins host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie to talk about Community and Dissent in a Digital Age
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Tune in on November 14th, 2025, for a conversation that explores how queer and trans zine-making can become an act of joyful…
Cortes CurrentsWhy Some Local 2025 Homeless Counts Dropped
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In 2025, the Province of British Columbia funded homeless counts in 20 communities. To virtually everyone’s surprise, the…
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Nov72025_HowieRoman_FindingHome_Edited
Manda Aufochs Gillespie / Folk U -Tune in on November 7th, 2025 for a special collaborative FolkU episode, featuring Howie Roman telling stories of his life…
Cortes CurrentsSRD Will Not Use Gas Tax Funds For Cortes Food Bank
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District will not use $28,000 of its gas tax funds to help the Cortes Island Food Bank. At their October…
Cortes CurrentsA Discovery Islands Health Centre
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -The Quadra, Cortes, and Surge Narrows communities, as well as the Klahoose and We Wai Kai First Nations, have sent the BC Ministry…
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Folk U Radio, October 24 2025 Edited
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On this Folk U, the students of the Cortes Island Academy took over the radio waves to answer this question: If you were to…
Cortes Currents+70_ of purchase price for Children's Forest raised
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society has raised just over 70% of the $7.5 million it needs to purchase 261…
Cortes Currents2025 Social Profit Forum
De Clarke/ Cortes Currents -On Tuesday, October 14th the Cortes Island Foundation invited island nonprofit and public service organisations to attend a Social…
Cortes CurrentsFirst Home Foundations Poured: Rainbow Ridge Housing Project Takes Shape on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales / Cortes Currents -The long-awaited Rainbow Ridge housing development has passed a milestone. The foundations of the first two homes are in place…
Cortes CurrentsCortes Island’s Community Forest Operations in 2025_26
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The Cortes Forestry General Partnership held its public meeting on October 9th, 2025. In today's interview, Operations Manager…
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Oct102025_FogoIsland_ChatterThatMatters_EditedFolkUEpisode
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -Tune in on October 10th for a special episode of FolkU radio, where we listen to an episode of another talk show, Chatter That…
Cortes CurrentsBC's Chief Forester Tells the SRD the State of BC's Forests, or not
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Shane Berg, BC’s Chief Forester, has a message he is taking to trading partners around the world. On Thursday, October 2, 2025…
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Revenue Diversification For Social Profits
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -On October 3 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Kate Maddigan, Bruen Black, Amy Robertson, and Genevieve Cruz…
Cortes CurrentsRural Directors against Municipalities joining the Electoral Areas Planning Service
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Campbell River wants to take control of the Strathcona Regional District’s Electoral Areas Planning Service away from rural…
Cortes CurrentsA New Internet Provider for Cortes- Raincoast Networks
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - As of September 30th, 2025, Raincoast Networks serves the 347 remaining customers in what was once the Twincomm service area on…
Cortes CurrentsSRD to prepare a report on how communities like Cortes incorporate
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -There have been speculations about Cortes Island becoming a municipality and at the September 17 SRD Board meeting staff was…
Cortes CurrentsSRD Staff to identify public lands on Quadra for potential affordadable housing sites
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - SRD staff will prepare a staff report identifying public lands on Quadra Island that may be available for affordable housing…
Cortes CurrentsThe Cortes Island School Wetland Project
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -The Cortes Island School Wetland Project is transforming part of the school field into a living classroom that blends ecology…
Cortes CurrentsSaturday, September 20_ Drawing the Line in Campbell River
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents =People from 93 nations will be calling upon their governments to Draw the Line - For People, for Peace, for the Planet - on…
Cortes CurrentsSep 19 at Mansons Friday Market_ Comox Strathcona Waste Management Service talks about changes coming
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -What does the Comox Strathcona Waste Management Service update mean to Cortes residents? Rates will go up. You may be paying more…
Cortes CurrentsAnna Kindy Vists Cortes and Quadra Islands
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - On Monday, September 15th, 2025, Anna Kindy, the MLA for our riding, visited Cortes and Quadra Islands. Cortes Currents met up…
Cortes CurrentsMaureen Williams- How the Zoning Bylaw process for Cortes could have been better
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -One of the speakers at the September 8 zoning bylaw meeting at Mansons Hall was Maureen Williams of Cortes Island’s Climate Action…
Cortes CurrentsGumboots In The Straits comes to Gorge Hall
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Book #4 of Gumboots series, 'Gumboots In The Straights' is coming to Gorge Hall on Cortes Island on Saturday September 20. Six of…
Cortes CurrentsSRD Municipalities wanting control of the Electoral Areas Planning Service
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -In the past, Rural Directors have not always appreciated Campbell River ‘interference’ in their affairs. An initiative coming out…
Cortes CurrentsUnedited Sep 8, 2025 Cortes Bylaw Meeting
This is the unedited audio from the September 8, 2025 Public Meeting about Cortes Island’s zoning bylaw chaired by Regional Director Mark Vonesch. Annie…
Cortes CurrentsCortes Island’s First Aquifer Health Study
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Cortes Island’s aquifer health study has been released and in this morning’s interviews we are speaking with Sylvia Barroso, of GW…
Cortes CurrentsConsideration for Monday’s Bylaw Update Meeting at Manson’s Hall
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Cortes Island will have a public meeting on its proposed Bylaw changes on Monday, Sept 8th, 5pm at Manson’s Hall. “This is a…
Cortes CurrentsAt the Old Schoolhouse Gallery- Kristen Scofield-Sweet’s final large-scale exhibition
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - From August 29 to September 14, the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery will host ‘How Do You Like the Underworld?—Kristen…
Cortes CurrentsCortes Food Bank Recieves Standard of Excellence Accreditation from Foodbanks Canada
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Food Bank was one of the nation’s first food banks to receive Standards of Excellence accreditation from Food…
Cortes CurrentsFolk U: Your Brain - on Trauma with special guest Wendy D’Andrea
Manda Aufochs Gillespie /Folk U - Psychologist and scientist, Wendy D’Andrea does research that looks at the impacts of acute trauma (such as a car crash)…
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Folk U Two, August 25 2025 Esther Shalev-Gevz
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -On August 25, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Esther Shalev-Gerz, a renowned artist who has exhibited all…
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Folk U Radio, August 22 2025
Manda AUfochs Gillespie/ Folk U -Thanks for joining us on August 22, 2025 for another week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and…
Cortes CurrentsSandcastle Day 2025 on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A hundred people turned out for Cortes Island’s Sandcastle Day on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025. “It was a blast because all the…
Cortes CurrentsFinal Cortes Food Bank Trying To Raise $35,000 For Move To A Perminent Home
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The Cortes Food Bank is trying to raise the $35,000 needed to relocate their base of operations to two sea-cans in the Village…
Cortes CurrentsFunding For The Whaletown Dock's Coming Facelift, & Aug 30 Dockswap
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Harbour Authority Cortes Island (HACI) received the necessary funding to carry out needed upgrades to the 111-year-old dock in…
Cortes CurrentsPurchasing an Early Wildfire Detection System for Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Cortes Island is close to raising the funds for a wildfire detection system that identifies fires within minutes of their…
Cortes CurrentsAugust 2025 update from Rainbow Ridge
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Mark Lombard from the Cortes Housing Society recently gave an update on progress at the Rainbow Ridge Affordable Housing Project…
Cortes CurrentsFirst Days at the Nook; Final Touches
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A lot has happened in the five months since Tomaaso Biasiolo became the Outreach and Admin Coordinator for ‘the Nook’ in Cortes…
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Explanations of Legal Issues that affect Cortes
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On August 11, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Nawel Izard, a Campbell River lawyer who cares deeply about…
Cortes CurrentsLive and Local on Cortes Island
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Live and Local is more than a Tideline page, although the Tideline page advertises all of the shows on Cortes Island from Gorge…
Cortes CurrentsGleanings from Lovefest 2025
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Lovefest 2025 was at Linnaea Farm on Saturday August 9th. Cortes Currents wandered through the crowd asking people about Lovefest…
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Folk U- An August 4 update from Rainbow RIdge
Manda AUfochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On August 4, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Sadhu Johnston, who gave an update on the developments…
Cortes CurrentsNew Virus Associated With (But Not Causing) Mass Oyster Die-Offs
Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - UBC researchers found a new virus in farmed Pacific Oysters that perished during a mass die-off in 2023. During the die-off…
Cortes CurrentsAspen King Plays at the Village Commons
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - July 25, 2025 was the fourth week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show…
Cortes CurrentsFolk U: Dr Eric Posen talks about Naturopathy, Health, and Healing
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - On July 21, 2025, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by Dr. Eric Posen to discuss naturopathy, health, and healing. This…
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Kaia Bryce and Adrian Esau in the Pavilion July 11 2025
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - July 11, 2025 was the second week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show…
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Folk U Radio July 18 2025 Rick Bockner
Manda Aufochs Goillespie/ Folk U - July 18, 2025 was the third week of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show…
Cortes CurrentsFolk U 250704 Singers in the Round
Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - July 4, 2025 saw the launch of the Village Commons Music Series, a simultaneously live and live-broadcast show, happening on…
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Folk U Radio June 20 2025 Awakeneers Live in Studio
Jemma Hicken/Folk U - On June 20th, 2025 guest host Jemma Hicken was joined by the Awakeneers, a 6-person, mostly-sibling folk band, for a short live set and…
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What's Happening on
On June 13, host Manda Aufochs-Gillespie was joined by community leaders and organizers, Duane Hanson, Mark Vonesch, Jemma Hicken, Sadhu Johnston, Cora Moret…