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Cortes Currents
English - February 01, 2020 00:39 - 26.8 MBNews cortes island discovery islands quadra food security energy indigenous nations Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Recent events have shown that the Regional District system does not always work well in a remote island like Cortes. Some whisper it’s time for Cortexit. Our Regional Director says we should work within the existing structure. It would be very expensive for a community this small to go it alone. She added,0:57 “A minority of very active voices has been very effective in undermining my credibility at the Regional District and yet if what I brought to the District was backed by a community council it would be harder to marginalize.” In this morning’s program we go to Cambridge, Vermont, to explore how an even more democratic system of government would work here.