Cortes Currents
1,486 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -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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The importance of ‘Rural Character’ to the Integrated Community Sustainability Plan for Area C
January 17, 2023 15:05 - 11 minutes - 26.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Three years ago, Area C received funding to develop an Integrated Community Plan (ICSP). COVID intervened and it wasn’t until last August that a 14 member advisory group was assembled. The resulting draft plan was presented at the Wednesday, January 11, meeting of the SRD’s Electoral Area’s Services Committee. “It was a very quick process and, we really appreciate all the efforts that went into it. The task force was convened in August and by November the ta...
The 2023 Season begins for Mansons Friday Market
January 15, 2023 22:22 - 7 minutes - 16.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The 2023 season for Manson’s Friday Market kicked off on January 13. “I come here every week that it's open. I put my face in here, sometimes not for very long, but I always walk around and see what's happening. It's a social occasion. I was hoping to see Thaddeus here. I wanted to buy one of his pre-rolls,” said Andy Vine, a former Director of the Southern Cortes Community Association (SCCA) which looks after Mansons Hall. “This winter is going better than p...
'Should I stay or should I go?' Three Decisions for Area C
January 13, 2023 15:21 - 7 minutes - 16.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “So in 1981 the Clash put out their classic single, ‘Should we stay, or should we go?’ And here I am with you, 41 years later asking you the same question. Should we stay with this initiative or should we take no action and leave it alone,” said Shaun Koopman, Protective Services Coordinater for the Strathcona Regional District. He was telling the Board about the results of a recent survey in the Outer Discovery Islands, but he could have been talking about a...
Cortes Matters at EASC's Inaugural Meeting
January 12, 2023 14:34 - 7 minutes - 16.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A number of Cortes Island matters were discussed at the new Electoral Areas Service Committee’s (EASC) Inaugral meeting. This is a special committee made up of the Strathcona Regional DIstrict’s four rural directors and the the first stop, before their concerns are brought before the full board. The initial discussion of Cortes Island’s proposed Grants in Aid, a Whaletown Community Club’s request for a funding to install a wheelchair ramp at the Old Schoolhouse ...
Our new neighbours, Pacific White-Sided Dolphins
January 11, 2023 18:15 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There have been numerous reports of Pacific White Sided Dolphins in our vicinity this past year. The most recent came from Powell River, where pods of around 200 dolphins were spotted from the shore on December 17th and again on December 28th. One of the reports from Campbell River mentioned more than 100 swimming through Discovery Passage. On their website, Wildwaterways Adventures describes this species in its list of wildlife that fill the Discovery Islands. ...
A very cold but rewarding 2022 Christmas Bird Count
January 10, 2023 19:36 - 19 minutes - 43.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The results from this year’s Christmas Bird Count are finally in. As expected, the numbers are down. According to George Sirk, this was because of the weather. "We found: 2,427 individual birds, and 54 species. Now the average is somewhere around 70 species. So back to the whole weather thing as to what knocked it down."
About the Cortes Island Seniors Society
January 05, 2023 12:56 - 7 minutes - 18.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “The Cortes Island Senior Society, as it is now, was registered in 1987, but previous to that there were seniors groups. I think mainly they called themselves the old age pensioners. They eventually became a seniors group. At some point when they wanted to build, someone told them that they weren't even called a building society, so they decided to become the Cortes Island Seniors Building Society, which they were for a number of years,” explained Sue Ellingse...
Why the Cortes Island Academy is a program of the Cortes Foundation
January 04, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 20.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -“The Cortes Island Academy is working on becoming its own nonprofit, but right now it actually functions as a program of the Cortes Island Community Foundation. Part of this was because I have had this interest in trying to figure out if we could create a high school pilot program and I work part-time as the Executive Director of the Cortes Island Community Foundation. So there was an obvious link, but it really goes back to the root of why we need a high scho...
What Quadra ICAN accomplished in 2022
January 03, 2023 14:47 - 9 minutes - 22.2 MBRoy L Hales/ COrtes Currents - According to the 2021 census, 36% of Quadra Island’s population is 65 years old or older. That’s 10% higher than throughout the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) as a whole, which has a considerably higher proportion of seniors than most of the province. The only Area in the SRD with a larger percentage of seniors is Cortes Island, where that number is 38%. Some might describe the large number of retirees is a problem, Quadra ICAN's new Coordinator, Ramona Boyl...
Designing for Meaningful Human Connection on FolkU @89.5FM
January 02, 2023 17:54 - 1 hour - 254 MBManda AUfochs Gillespie/ Folk U -What do our lives, spaces, and buildings look life if we were to prioritize connection? On Friday December 30, Bruce Haden joined host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss his career as a designer, thought leader, and author focused on the power of spaces, organizations, and institutions to create powerful, transformation change through prioritizing the potential of human connection. This will be a wide ranging discussion on elements of design and architecture,...
How the Cortes Fundation hit the ground running
January 02, 2023 14:29 - 6 minutes - 15.7 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Corrents - Cortes Island’s little community foundation has turned to be a leader in terms of innovation. “Most community foundations have years and years of fundraising and millions of dollars of endowment behind them. They get to have their cake and eat it too,” explained Executive Director Manda Aufochs Gillespie. “This idea that we've got to just hit the ground running and figure out what the social profits on Cortes need and trying to help become a partner and ge...
Ramona Boyle: Quadra ICAN’s new Coordinator
December 29, 2022 21:11 - 8 minutes - 20 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Quadra ICAN recently hired Ramona Boyle as the Coordinator to oversee their operations. This was advertised as a part time position, which is expected to take approximately 40 hours a month. Cortes Currents asked the Heriot Bay resident about her new role. “After I was interviewed for the job, I was told that the reason that I got it is because of my intense practicality. I'm a problem solver and I get things done,” she explained. “When I first started working ...
What 2022 meant for the DeathCaring Collective
December 28, 2022 22:03 - 10 minutes - 23.6 MBMargaret Verschuur/ Cortes Currents - When you asked me about doing an interview, Roy, I hesitated. But then I thought of Jennifer Stevens, and her courage, and thought: I can do this. Jen was someone who really showed up in community, and she let the DeathCaring Collective be a part of her experience. Of course, confidentiality is something important in everything we do in the DeathCaring Collective, but Jennifer was always very open and her daughter Darshan has been generous and eloquent ...
The Klahoose Wilderness Resort’s First full season
December 27, 2022 23:26 - 10 minutes - 23.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to Tourism Manager Chris Tait, the Klahoose Wilderness Resort’s first full season was a much greater success than they expected. Chris Tait: “We did open in 2021 but with the pandemic, obviously, we only had a very shortened season. 2022 was our first full season. We were open from May to October, and we had more visitors than we forecasted.” “People were very interested in what we are doing. Whether they're from New York, California, from British ...
3 Cortes Island Projects receiving $40,000 to advance gender equality
December 27, 2022 12:44 - 5 minutes - 13.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Three Cortes Island projects are about to receive a $40,000 grant to advance gender equality. This is part of a $3.4 million collaboration between the Community Foundations of Canada and the Equity Fund supported by the Government of Canada. Manda Aufochs Gillespie, Executive Director of the Cortes Island Community Foundation, explained, “We were able to partially fund three different projects. Those include our Women's Centre, which everybody knows, runs wit...
Cortes Foundation receives $100,000 in funding
December 25, 2022 14:37 - 11 minutes - 27.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Foundation just signed an MOU, which opens the way for it to receive $100,000 in funding for Cortes Island charities and non-profits. In today’s interview Mark Spevakow, Vice President of the Cortes Island CommunityFoundation, and Executive Director Manda Aufochs Gillespie explain how this will work.
The story behind the Tire Islet clean-up
December 22, 2022 15:43 - 8 minutes - 18.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A waste education program from Powell River recently cleaned up an islet that was partially buried under tires. Cortes Currents republished the story from qathet Living and that probably would have ended the matter, except some of you had questions. The biggest one was something between shock and disbelief that such a beautiful Islet had actually been turned into a tire dump. So Cortes Currents asked Abby McLennan of Let’s Talk Trash for an interview. Abby McL...
Quadra Foundation to administer $100,000
December 20, 2022 14:10 - 5 minutes - 11.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Quadra Island Foundation will be distributing approximately $100,000 to Quadra Island organizations during the Spring of 2023. According to their press release, Grant amounts will range from $10,000 to $20,000. This money is part of the government of Canada's National COVID Recovery Fund to support charities, non-profits and indigenous governing bodies. Quadra Island Foundation Treasurer Mitch Hirano explained: “This program is available through three n...
Truth telling with Rex Weyler and CIA Students
December 19, 2022 17:38 - 1 hour - 270 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - Learn more about the role of journalist as truth teller and change maker with Rex Weyler, pulitzer prize nominated journalist and co-founder of GreenPeace on Folk U radio this week. Rex Weyler was a repeat special guest this year at the Cortes Island Academy and will join host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and student guest hosts from the CIA to talk a bit about his experience as a journalist over the years. We will be joined in the latter part of the show by surpr...
Teen takeover
December 18, 2022 11:49 - 1 hour - 265 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - On Friday Dec 16, Folk U gave way to a Teen Take-Over with music and a bit of words from the students of Cortes Island Academy. A lot of people phoned in with requests. Cora Lee joined Manda Aufochs Gillespie as co-host. Folk U Radio is taking old school viral every Friday at 1 and Mondays at 6:30 p.m./Wednesday at 6 a.m. @CKTZ89.5FM or livestreamed at cortesradio.ca. Find repeats anytime at www.folku.ca/podcasts.
Harbour Authority Cortes Island: The Small Craft Harbours Connection
December 17, 2022 21:09 - 6 minutes - 16 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Harbour Authority Cortes Island (HACI) has embarked upon a campaign to inform the public who they are and what they do. Harbourmaster Jenny Hartwick provided Cortes Currents with a concise description of the organization. “The Harbour Authority is a nonprofit organization, which is made up of an eight volunteer board of directors. All of whom are local year round, residents and are actively involved in boating on Cortes, either commercial fisheries, aquacultur...
PRV1a in fish farms, an interview with Dr Gideon Mordecai
December 16, 2022 15:42 - 9 minutes - 21.1 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Dr Gideon Mordecai is a Research associate with the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at UBC. He is also the author of more than 20 scientific publications, the most recent of which reported the PRV1a virus in 70% of the 56 fish farms they studied. Cortes Currents asked Dr. Mordecai,”Fish farms are claiming that BC's PRV1 isn't deadly for wild salmon. Is that true?”
52,000 Chum eggs came to Cortes Island
December 15, 2022 17:35 - 9 minutes - 22.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents The Klahoose water taxi brought 52,000 Chum eggs to Squirrel Cove yesterday. ‘Goat 1’ tied up at the Klahoose dock around 11 AM. “The eggs come from Tla'amin Fish Hatchery in Powell River. I think the amount is probably based on what they get on returns, because they have their own creeks and rivers where they get their Chum eggs,” explained Klahoose Fisheries Officer Byron Harry.
Search for the elusive Western Screech Owl
December 14, 2022 21:47 - 11 minutes - 26.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In 2021, the Friends of Cortes Island received funding from the Habitat Stewardship Program to seek out the elusive Western Screech Owls. This research is being guided by the Pacific Megascops Research Alliance, and biologists from the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship are part of the team. The first season was spring 2022. According to Cortes Island biologist Sabina Leader Mense: “We know they're here, why aren't they talking to us? The resea...
Little room left for Liveaboards on Cortes Island docks
December 13, 2022 17:28 - 5 minutes - 13.2 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - On Monday, Dec 12, Gorge Harbour Marina Resort announced that its seasonal liveaboard program will come to an end next Spring. Jason Johnson, General Manager of QXMC as well as the resort, wrote, “GHMR has never, to the best of my knowledge, offered year-round live aboard opportunities but has run a small seasonal program in previous years where under ten vessels were hosted. In 2022, the program has seven vessels, under short term live aboard contract ending t...
Part 2: Mark Vonesch Dec 2022
December 12, 2022 23:32 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBDe Clarke/Cortes Currents - The second part of an interview with Cortes Island's new Regional Director, Mark Vonesch
FOCI's Marine Stewardship Program
December 12, 2022 22:05 - 15 minutes - 36.5 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents -“The best overview of the FOCI's Marine Stewardship Initiative (MSI), the absolute best overview in a nutshell, is an Arthur C Clark's quote. It's the mantra of the MSI. Arthur C. Clarke wrote 'How inappropriate to call this Planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.' That is, in a nutshell, the Marine Stewardship Initiative,” explained Sabina Leader Mense, Program coordinator Then she proceeded to give an overview of the five major programs currently underway.
Mark Vonesch Dec 2022 Part One
December 12, 2022 11:56 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBDe Clarke/ COrtes Currents - In mid-November, Currents ran an article on the novel Finnish approach to homelessness, “Housing First,” and three local communities where low-cost housing had been created for those in need. We invited the new Area B Regional Director (Mark Vonesch) to comment on the housing issue generally, and on “Housing First” as a concept. Mark wasn’t able to respond in November, but agreed to an interview in early December. The interview will be broadcast on CKTZ in two pa...
This past year at FOCI, an interview with Helen Hall
December 11, 2022 19:23 - 9 minutes - 21.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) recently had its AGM. This is also Helen Hall’s seventh year as Executive Director. So Cortes Currents asked her for an overview of this past year and how the organization has changed during her tenure. Helen Hall: “That’s a big question, FOCI has always been doing a lot of different projects. I act as the central point for FOCI, but there's a lot of work going on with volunteers and our contractors.”
Origins of Cortes Island's Aquaculture Industry
December 09, 2022 21:17 - 20 minutes - 46.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In the most recent of her interviews about Cortes History, Lynne Jordan, former President of the Cortes Island Museum, traces one of the Island’s foremost industries from its pre-contact beginnings up until recent times. Lynne Jordan: “ The First Nations cultivated clam gardens on this coast for 3,000 to 5,000 years, maybe even longer. One on Quadra Island was recently dated at being around 3,500 years old.” “In her book ‘Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture o...
The Earthquake early warning system
December 08, 2022 22:05 - 3 minutes - 8.54 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Current - At their December 7 meeting, the Strathcona Regional District Board discussed modifications to a contract for 16 Earthquake early warning stations stretching from Chatham Point, north of Campbell River, up to Haida Gwaii. The $1.8 million needed to fund this project was provided by a grant from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). As Chief Administration Officer (CAO) David Leitch explained,”NRCan would only provide the grant to local governments, so it had to b...
Update on proposed Outer Discovery Fire Brigade
December 08, 2022 17:48 - 3 minutes - 6.92 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents -A fire broke out at Diamond Bay on Sonora Island, on Thursday, August 12, 2021. It began as a structure fire, but spread into the tinder dry forest. The fire travelled rapidly upslope, threatening 30 other homes in the vicinity. Neighbouring residents converged at Diamond Bay and organized an ad hoc fire control effort. BC Wildfire Service arrived to take command. Four helicopters, a fire response boat and 17 provincial firefighters fought alongside ‘the local Owe...
Coming before the SRD, discussion of provincial measures to address the housing crisis
December 07, 2022 13:59 - 4 minutes - 10.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Three days after he was sworn in as Premier of British Columbia, David Eby unveiled a series of new laws designed to increase the pace of new construction, remove age restrictions in stratas (except for the +55 restriction that promotes seniors housing) and tap the supply of vacant dwellings for the rental market. The BC Government press release did not mention vacant dwellings, such as the 253 empty homes on Cortes Island that were reported in the 2016 census....
Audio Postcards from the Cortes Island Academy
December 06, 2022 16:20 - 47 minutes - 109 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U -This whole month, Folk U Radio has been partnering with the Cortez Island Academy to feature student work and the music and ideas and voices of the Cortez Island Academy students. There are 20 of them, coming from homes in Cortes and the surrounding area to nations as distant as Germany and Indonesia. “We asked the students, what would you write about your experience on Cortez Island? If you were to send an audio postcard home or an audio postcard to someon...
Early Fisherfolk in Whaletown and Gorge Harbour
December 05, 2022 21:25 - 17 minutes - 40.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A great many fisherfolk once worked out of Whaletown. The Cortes Island Museum’s list goes back to the 1930s, at which point there were 7 men and a woman. Three of them used rowboats. “There used to be a huge fleet rafted out, both six and seven abreast all along both sides of the dock, in Whaletown. In the last 10 years or so, there's only been three or four boats in there, fishing. The main one that I know of in the last little while is the ‘C-Fin,’ but h...
Open House for Rainbow Ridge
December 04, 2022 13:36 - 11 minutes - 25.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Despite the heavy snowfall Wednesday, at least 100 people are believed to have attended the open house for Rainbow Ridge affordable housing development in Mansons Hall. “We were really happy with the turnout considering the weather, the snow and the road conditions. We decided to go ahead with the event regardless because we had special guests including Ian Scott, who was coming all the way from Victoria. He's our development consultant and he was in Campbell...
Bruce Ellingsen receives the Jo Ann Green Award
December 02, 2022 13:45 - 25 minutes - 59 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Bruce Ellingson is this year's recipient of this year’s Jo Anne Green Award. Every year, the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) give this to a Cortes Islander who has made a significant contribution to the environmental wellbeing of the community. “I'm just going to tell you a little bit about Jo Ann Green. So Jo Ann Green was an exemplary environmentalist who came to Cortes in 1969, and she immediately became involved in social environmental activities on the is...
BC is on track to miss emissions targets for 2025 and 2030
November 30, 2022 18:07 - 8 minutes - 19.6 MBRoy L hales/ Cortes Currents - According to the government’s 2022 Climate Change Accountability Report, B.C. is currently on course to meet 85% of its emissions targets for 2025. “We are making progress. I don’t want to discount the effort the provincial governement has made, but they've made very clear climate commitments and they're very clearly not on track to meet them,” explained Peter McCartney of the Wilderness Committee. “Every year the BC government is required by law to put out...
Kobo e-readers and Cortes Islands DYI Literacy Book Club
November 29, 2022 21:07 - 8 minutes - 18.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Assuming they don’t get snowed out, Cortes Literacy is holding a mandatory training for their new Rabuten Kobo e-readers today. Manda Aufochs Gillespie explained this is connected to Cortes Island’s new book club. Manda Aufochs Gillespie: “This book club is a hybrid of just another community organized volunteer 'Let's everybody pitch in book club' like we have seen multiple times before on Cortes and an attempt to blend with a program that Cortes Literacy is ...
70% of the fish farms sampled had PRV-1, study finds
November 28, 2022 23:30 - 20 minutes - 47.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A new study published by the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, states that 70% of the samples taken from 56 fish farms had PRV-1. One of the co-authors is independent biologist Alexandra Morton, who explained, “The study was my concept and I funded a lot of the analysis and did a lot of the sampling myself. It was truly collaborative with Clayoquot Action sampling the Farms in Clayoquot Sound. An extraordinary man, Dr. Neil Fraser from Powell ...
Long Story Shorts with Hakai on FolkU @89.5FM
November 27, 2022 13:59 - 1 hour - 109 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Explore the magic of scientific storytelling with the creators and scientists from the Hakai Institute who join host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and Cortes Island Academy students on this Friday's Folk U Radio at 1 p.m. We will discuss science communication done well and Hakai's new short video series.
The Chum have not returned to Basil Creek yet but, overall, the outlook for salmon may be improving
November 27, 2022 00:14 - 11 minutes - 25.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It is November 26 and there are still no Chum Salmon in Basil Creek. Normally they would have returned a month ago, but there was a prolonged drought this year. While the water level has risen, there are still no fish. “It's getting to be late for Chum, but we're seeing other populations come in late. We might see Chum return into the next few weeks, it's very possible. This year is definitely characterized by a lot of weird conditions,” said Matthew Clarke, DF...
Raising $10,000 for the Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island, two reasons why
November 25, 2022 17:40 - 9 minutes - 20.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - ‘Giving Tuesday’ is just five days away. The Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society (FTCCIS) is trying to raise $10,000 for the valuation and assessment which will hopefully lead to their purchasing two parcels of forest. There are actually several components to this story. This morning we are going to talk to two young women involved with the new Children’s Forest Video made for this fund raising drive.
How the Cortes Fire Department responded
November 25, 2022 11:01 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBMark Vonesch - I am grateful we have such a competent volunteer fire department on Cortes. The November 23 incident was a scary reminder of how important it is to have effective emergency response on our island. I ran into Eli McKenty, our Interim Fire Chief, and asked if he would share what happened:
Whaletown Commons just got Bigger
November 24, 2022 14:25 - 4 minutes - 10.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Whaletown Commons, on Cortes Island, is growing. A 9½ acre parcel of forest is being added to the northwest corner of this Regional Park. At their November 23 Board meeting, the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) Board passed the motion to annex this parcel of Crown land in less than two minutes. The principal voice in the audio clip taken from that meeting is SRD Chair Mark Baker, who quickly ran through the motions to suspend a second and third reading to...
Cortes Housing: Open House for Rainbow Ridge & the Gregg Road property has sold
November 23, 2022 22:59 - 3 minutes - 8.37 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Sandra Wood, Executive Director of the Cortes Community Housing Society, had two important news updates. Firstly, she has some more details about the Open House, for the Rainbow Ridge affordable housing project, at Mansons Hall on November 30. “That's Wednesday, one week away and it'll be an open house style meeting where people can drop in any time between 3 in the afternoon and 6 in the evening. We're encouraging people to stop in after they pick up their k...
Cortes Housing Society film: Behind the Design
November 23, 2022 22:37 - 4 minutes - 11.4 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents The Cortes Community Housing Society has just released a video about the design work they have completed, with the help of Iredale Architecture, on the Rainbow Ridge project. “ We're very lucky to have Bill Weaver, the video maker on our board of directors. Bill is actually our vice president and one of the things he's so gifted at is capturing video and photos. One of the things he's been trying to do since the beginning of the project is really record the proc...
The New Children's Forest Video
November 23, 2022 00:01 - 9 minutes - 21.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Children’s Forest Trust has just released an incredible video, as part of fundraiser that will end of Tuesday November 29, 2022. As the audio is strong enough to stand on its’ own, that is today’s program. If you live on Cortes, you may recognise a few of these people by their voices: Al Huuskonen, Andy Ellingsen, Bruce Ellingsen, Christine Robinson, Daniel Tucker. Emma Mathieu, Kai Harvey, Kiera Tsaknoas, Paul Stamets, Tosh Harvey, Tzeporah Ber...
Invisible Hand and AirBnB
November 22, 2022 12:07 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - It’s pretty common knowledge that we have a housing crisis on Cortes. In fact, there’s a “housing crisis” in many — perhaps most — popular or attractive places in North America and Europe right now. One of the factors often mentioned is AirBnB. This phenomenon (AirBnB now has global impact and qualifies as a Phenomenon!) vividly illustrates the predicament of “good for one is not necessarily good for all” — also sometimes known as “smart for one, dumb for all”. A...