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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Overview of Klahoose Aquaculture
May 04, 2022 23:28 - 5 minutes - 13.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In 2007, Chief Ken Brown purchased 50% of a 34 hectare sub-tidal geoduck farm off Squirrel Cove, on Cortes Island. In the years that followed, the Klahoose First Nation bought their partner out. They were 100% owners when Bruno Pereira became General Manager of Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC). The next phase of Klahoose Aquaculture growth grew out of a series of discussions that Pereira had with Operations Manager Paul Muskee, more than two years a...
Toba Inlet: Another potential expansion for Qathen Xwegus?
May 04, 2022 12:15 - 3 minutes - 7.31 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been six years since Klahoose Wilderness Adventures erected its first bear watching tower in Toba Inlet. Now there are six viewing platforms, but they are only for two months every year. Cortes Currents asked Bruno Pereira, Senior Manager of Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC) which oversees Klahoose First Nation business activities, if there are plans to expand their tourism offerings in Toba. “Toba has always been a playground that wasn't expl...
Wildlife returning to the Dillon Creek Wetlands
May 03, 2022 22:39 - 14 minutes - 32.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been a year since Autumn Barrett-Morgan was hired as a Biological Monitoring Technician at the Dillon Creek Wetlands Restoration Project. This is in Cortes Island’s oldest farm site, currently known as Linnaea Farm, but prior to the land being a farm, it was wetlands. Three years ago the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) and Linnaea Farm partnered in a project to restore the wetlands, to help reduce the sediment and thus reduce the nutrients flowing down Di...
SRD approved Blenkin park bicycle project, in Principle
May 02, 2022 20:14 - 12 minutes - 28.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - SRD Approves proposed bicycle project in Blenkin Park, in principle At their April 27th Board meeting, the Strathcoan Regional District (SRD) Board approved a proposed bike park at Blenkin Memorial Park in principle, but is withholding its endorsement until it can ascertain the implications of this action. Regional Director Jim Abram of Area C, which includes Quadra Island, explained that the community was behind the project. “ I went to the school myself an...
on FolkU Radio... Cortes Community & our Forests 101
May 02, 2022 16:08 - 1 hour - 227 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ FolkU -Today’s Folk U is a live event field trip. .. And if you stay home you’ll be able to catch the Folk U Radio show on CKTZ 89.5 FM or CortesRadio.ca on The history of Cortes Community & Our Forests. This includes numerous presentations by the likes of Bruce Ellingsen, Christine Robinson, Lovena & Kai Harvey, and more about the unique history of our island, our community, and previous logging efforts. A really incredible listen. Don’t stay home just to listen tho...
A time of transition for Klahoose Forestry
April 30, 2022 22:36 - 5 minutes - 13.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - While they have had a forestry license in Toba Inlet since 2009, Klahoose Forestry has been going through some significant changes. Bruno Pereira, Senior Manager of Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC) explained that when he arrived three years ago, operations were managed by a partner from Vancouver. “The last few years have been transition years going from thinking of transitioning, to acting on transitioning,” he explained. “With the help of tw...
Public meeting for Quadra Links rescheduled to Nov 23
April 30, 2022 17:21 - 3 minutes - 9.08 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The public hearing for a proposed RV park on land owned by the Quadra Island Golf Course (Quadra Links) has been rescheduled to November 23, 2022. This is a reversal of the decision made at the April 13 SRD Board meeting, when Regional Director Jim Abram had insisted the meeting be held on May 18. Unfortunately Abram had not consulted with the golf course, which was not ready for a meeting in May and had been under the impression their meeting was to be in th...
A fire Brigade for Read and nearby Discovery Islands
April 30, 2022 13:30 - 3 minutes - 7.08 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Tim Pley and Associates has been hired to conduct a feasibility study for a fire brigade to serve the Outer Discovery Islands. The Surge Narrows Community Association (SNCA) requested the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) investigate the costs and implications of this project last September. A motion to hire Pley and Associates passed without comment at the April 27, 2020 SRD Board meeting. The Surge Narrows Community Association (SNCA) represents the approxi...
Timber Industry feeling the heat
April 30, 2022 12:26 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents -Public opinion and Federal and Provincial policy are finally swinging (at the eleventh hour) towards protection of the pathetic remnants of BC’s old growth forest and possibly some reform of forest management practise. In response, the timber/pulp industry appears to be mounting a last-ditch PR effort to defend its traditional extractive model and discredit its most vocal critics. One fingerprint of this effort can be found in a recent Times-Colonist opinion/edito...
The need for legislation to protect black bear dens
April 29, 2022 12:17 - 16 minutes - 36.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Unlike their Mainland cousins, Vancouver Island’s Black Bears make their dens almost exclusively in large-diameter old trees, stumps, logs, or root wads. Dens are normally left dormant for a while after use, due to parasite infestation and the need to escape predators. However a study in the Nimpkish Valley, south of Port McNeill, found that 72% of the dens were reused over a 15 year period. In one case, the den was occupied during four winters. “Many bear den...
RCMP reports from Cortes and Quadra during the week ending Sunday April 24
April 28, 2022 11:35 - 3 minutes - 7.08 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There was one Cortes and four Quadra Island reports in this week’s email from the Quadra RCMP detachment. None of these involved an arrest, fine or any police action beyond a warning. In one case, a group of youth were commended as ‘good citizens.’ With temperatures rising, the RCMP are receiving more complaints about cars speeding on Quadra Island. This has led to more police patrols and the Quadra Speed Watch Program is looking for volunteers. If you are i...
Jenna Cragg talks about five Cortes Island bird species
April 27, 2022 21:13 - 14 minutes - 33.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - When Cortes Currents asked the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) who to interview for more in depth coverage of ‘species at risk,’ they responded ‘Jenna Cragg.’ That was last January, which shows how busy she is. Sabina Leader-Mense described Cragg as one of FOCI’s key ‘go to’ species at risk biologists, who provides the facts that FOCI brings into the community. In the emails we exchanged prior to this interview, Cragg specifically mentioned five species: the M...
Folk U 22 - Apr - 2022 Live The Big One
April 26, 2022 16:02 - 1 hour - 236 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Are you ready for a major disaster? Folk U joined Cortes Island’s Emergency Responders, Cortes Radio’s emergency communications team, & your neighbours on Friday April 22nd at 1 p.m. to learn more about what will happen in the case of a sustained, long-term disaster and what YOU can do to help ensure you and your family are ready. The event took place under the CCEDA tent (behind the Cortes Radio station). Cortesians were invited to bring their neighbours ...
Federal court rules DFO breached salmon farmers right to procedural fairness
April 26, 2022 14:00 - 3 minutes - 7.56 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - On Friday, April 22, a federal court h ruled that Former federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan breached the rights of B.C. salmon farmers to procedural fairness when she ordered them to phase out operations in the Discovery Islands by June 2022. Justice Elizabeth Heneghan pointed out that by September 2020, the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat produced nine scientific reports that concluded aquaculture in the Discovery Islands poses no mo...
Bruce Harrison receives Jo Anne Green Environmental Award
April 26, 2022 11:46 - 6 minutes - 5.45 MBMax Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - This January, at the Friends of Cortes Island Annual General Meeting, Bruce Harrison was awarded the Jo Anne Green Environmental Award. The Jo Anne Green award is an honour for leadership in community-based environmental awareness, protection and restoration. Jo Anne Green was a founder of the Friends of Cortes Island and an inspiration for many on Cortes to care for this place and imagine a reciprocal relationship with our ecosystems. The letter that nominates...
The Rural Housing and service needs survey
April 26, 2022 10:31 - 8 minutes - 20.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -The Strathcona Regional District is in the midst of a 30 day survey of rural housing insecurity and service needs. The Campbell River and District Coalition to end homelessness emailed copies to every Vancouver Island Regional Library in the district. The coalition found a network of volunteers ready to work with them on Cortes Island and there were also some individuals on Quadra, but some areas can only be reached through social media. The survey comes to an en...
The vision behind QXMC's success
April 24, 2022 21:11 - 21 minutes - 48.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In the three years since they hired Bruno Pereira, Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC) has purchased the Klahoose Wilderness Resort, Gorge Harbour Marina, a water taxi, a piece of ocean front property for a combined campsite/RV park and entered into the seaweed farm business. They intend to add another 20 rental units, a larger store and gas station at the Gorge. QXMC is also contemplating a hydroponic vegetable farm and electrifying their land transport...
Two forestry events as Mosaic visits Cortes Island
April 22, 2022 13:25 - 8 minutes - 19.7 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There were two public forestry events, while Mosaic visited Cortes Island this week. About 135 people attended the mixed in-person/ZOOM ‘Celebrating our Forests’ meeting at Mansons Hall on the evening of April 20, 2022. Around 16 people joined Mosaic on at least one of the two field walks of proposed cutblocks the following day. (Someone went on both trips.)
Releasing 5,000 Chum fry back into Basil Creek
April 21, 2022 12:07 - 6 minutes - 14.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - More than 20 people gathered at the Klahoose hatchery in Squirrel Cove to watch around 5,000 Chum fry be released back into Basil Creek on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Six of them were women and girls from the Klahoose village, who came to sing a prayer song. Seven were homeschool students, enrolled in the Partners in Education (PIE) program, who came with their mothers. There were also a handful of Cortes Island streamkeepers, three Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) pe...
Delores Broten: the 1990 logging blockade, FOCI and origins of the Watershed Sentinel
April 20, 2022 14:11 - 19 minutes - 44.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) was something talked about in the past tense, when Delores Broten and Don Malcom moved to Cortes in 1987. In the first of a series of posts about the origins of FOCI, Broten and talks about the 1990 logging blockade that inspired FOCI’s rebirth as well as the award-winning environmental magazine called ‘the Watershed Sentinel.’
Kayak surfing off Quadra Island
April 19, 2022 12:24 - 4 minutes - 10.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Reuben Buerge has been surfing sea kayaks in our area for the past 10 to 12 years. This relatively new sport only reached North America during the 1980s and Buerge is not aware of reaching the waters off Quadra Island more than two decades ago. “Surfing sea kayaks is a pretty kind of niche-y thing. You really only see it in a few areas in the world and we're lucky enough to have that amazing feature in our backyard that's perfect for us,” he explained. “I...
Is Canada's Charter of Rights in Jeopardy? FolkU Radio @89.5
April 18, 2022 16:41 - 1 hour - 229 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U Radio - In this Folk U Radio show Former Newfoundland Premier, the Honourable Brian Peckford, gives part history lesson and part current update on the state of Canadian civic life on Folk U Radio. Friday April 15th at 1 p.m. Peckford is the only surviving drafter and signatory First Minister 40 years after the Canadian constitution was first patriated and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms created and adopted (in 1982). He was the drafter of the Newfoundland p...
47 days until a decision must be made: reports of sea lice and pathogens
April 18, 2022 14:17 - 24 minutes - 55.4 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - As we get closer to June 30, when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has to decide whether to reissue the licenses for 79 British Columbian salmon farms, independent biologist Alexandra Morton points to yet more problems. A recent Global and Mail article revealed the existence of a decade old Department of Fisheries (DFO) report about the ‘transmission of the PRV virus from farmed to wild salmon.’ Morton said the fish farm industry has exceeded the t...
Abram moves Quadra Links public meeting to May 18
April 15, 2022 12:32 - 12 minutes - 29.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Regional Director Jim Abram appears to have pushed through an earlier public hearing date for the Quadra Island Golf Club (Quadra Links) rezoning proposal than the proponent wishes. Quadra Links wishes to rezone a portion of their property so they can develop a 30 spot RV park, but requested that the meeting be delayed so they could analyze some technical issues raised in recent public submissions. SRD staff recommended the hearing be scheduled for Wednesday, N...
SRD deciding how to allocate wood chips
April 14, 2022 13:58 - 5 minutes - 13.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At their last meeting, the SRD Board approved a motion to keep the wood chips created by it Residential wood debris pickup in rural areas, but have yet to decide how they will be distributed This pertains to the wood debris collected from local residences. Nine organizations on Cortes, Quadra and Read Islands, have submitted applications for woodchips that have a public use component. A second motion, “THAT the Regional District allocate woodchips to all ap...
Why are heat pumps catching on?
April 13, 2022 17:48 - 13 minutes - 30.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A lot of heat pump systems have installed in Campbell River and Quadra Island homes recently. Several companies offer this service, but Aerotherm Solutions also made close to 30 installations on Cortes Island last year. Tyler Woodward, of Aerotherm Solutions, was on Cortes recently. He explained that Aerotherm is a relatively small Campbell River HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) business that also installs furnaces, natural gas, custom sheet me...
Klahoose Wilderness Resort's 2022 season starts May 12th
April 11, 2022 21:05 - 16 minutes - 36.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Klahoose First Nation conducted grizzly bear tours in Toba Inlet for five years before their economic development arm, Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC), purchased the former Homfray Lodge in November 2020. Many of the packages are already booked for the Klahoose Wilderness Resort’s second season, which starts May 12th. “This year, we have a full season ahead of us. We’re really happy with the number of reservations. We’re welcoming guests from al...
Heart of the Coast on FolkU Radio @89.5FM
April 11, 2022 16:07 - 1 hour - 214 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Learn some of the stories of the biodiversity and resilience on the Pacific Edge as author and Hakai Institute chronicler, Tyee Bridge joins host Manda Aufochs Gillespie Friday at 1 p.m. to discuss the research and writing of Heart of the Coast. Learn more about this region in Deep Time, the archeology and geology, all the way to present day sea stars and kelp to subsidies, science, and students. And do you know how many viruses can be found in seawater? Lea...
RCMP incident report for the week ending Sunday April 0th
April 11, 2022 10:45 - 2 minutes - 5.76 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cst. Rebekah DRAHT of the Quadra RCMP, which also serves Cortes and Read Islands, emailed an incident report for the week ending on Sunday April 10. There were no major incidents. Police responded to four calls and conducted checks of vehicles on land and water. Some warnings were given, but no arrests made and the only unresolved situation was an unclaimed paddleboard. On Monday April 4th, a male customer at the Heriot Bay Pub, on Quadra Island, refused to pay...
The passion behind Wild Waterways Adventures
April 07, 2022 22:32 - 17 minutes - 40.1 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Wild Waterways Adventures officially launched last year but for Jenefer Smalley it is part of a lifelong pursuit. “My whole entire life, I've had an affinity and a connection with wildlife. I thought I would go to college to become a wildlife biologist or a fisheries biologist. Then when I finally went to college, I realized I wasn't really into running statistics and mathematical models, I wanted to be out in the field with wildlife. So when I graduated, just o...
102 BC First Nations call for fish farms to be transitioned onto land
April 06, 2022 12:57 - 8 minutes - 19.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Chief Bob Chamberlain, of the Kwi kwa sutin ow Howinus (one of the ‘Broughton Nations’) and Chair of the First Nations Wild Salmon Alliance. Representatives of 102 First Nations, from across British Columbia, voiced their support for the transition of open-net pen fish farms out of BC waters yesterday. The First Nations Wild Salmon Alliance hosted a press conference in Vancouver. Many of the attendees were on ZOOM. “We have to be mindful that migratory nature...
Spring update from Linnaea Farm
April 05, 2022 20:22 - 11 minutes - 25.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Tamara McPhail was wearing her paramedic’s uniform, when she met with Cortes Currents over ZOOM. She was on call and the phone could ring at any moment. “I often say that I had to get a job to support my farming habits because farming just doesn't quite pay. I mean, it pays in a lot of ways, but just in terms of the financial things: If you need to send your kids to university or buy a new car or invest in a new wood stove, there's just not a lot of extra at th...
Monitoring fish and insects in the Dillon Creek wetlands
April 04, 2022 16:35 - 5 minutes - 12.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Seven adults and two children came to monitor wildlife in the Dillon Creek Wetlands, on April 1st. Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) streamkeepers Cec and Christine Robinson and FOCI’s Autumn Barret Morgan led the educational event. They began by listening to the birds, whose calls came from every side, and the gurgling flow of Dillon Creek. The aroma of damp earth rose to everyone’s nostrils. Gusts of wind pushing against the microphone produced the period...
Mike on Mosaic Part 2
April 04, 2022 02:51 - 9 minutes - 9.05 MBDe Clarke & Mike Moore/ Cortes Currents - [researched and written by Mike Moore, edited and produced for radio by De Clarke] Cortes Islanders are very aware that we live on an island. The landbase has a very defined perimeter with the ocean; but the way the land wraps around and encloses the island’s many harbours and bays means that the land has a very intimate and close connection with the ocean. We know that the land, lakes, creeks and ocean are all interrelated. Standing on a Cortes bea...
Cortes Island's Open Letter and community engagement with Mosaic
April 03, 2022 17:25 - 5 minutes - 12.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On Thursday, March 31, Regional Director Noba Anderson gave Mosaic Forest Management a petition calling for them to make changes to their plan for logging on Cortes Island The petitioners are concerned that Mosaic’s plan to log between 6,000 - 8,000 m3 per year is more than Cortes forests can grow back. They stated they will support harvest only within these guidelines: “At an annual volume which is less than 20% of the volume of wood the forest grows each ye...
Are You Prepared? Part 1 w/Shaun Koopman @89.5FM
April 02, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 145 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ FOLK U - Are You Prepared? In this part 1 of a 2 part series (2art 2 is a LIVE, In person event on April 22 at 1 p.m.), Shaun Koopman from the Strathcona Regional District will join host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss what it looks like for Cortes Islanders (and others) to be prepared for a number of emergencies including fire, earthquake, multi-month power outages, and more. How resilient are you as an individual? Are we as a community? What’s the role of the Re...
Countdown for 79 salmon farms: new report says sea lice have developed resistance to SLICE
April 01, 2022 11:50 - 20 minutes - 46.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On Monday a new study confirmed what environmentalists have been saying for years, sea lice have developed a resistance to SLICE the treatment fish farms most often use against them. “in many ways, this paper mark's a new era. First Nations are very keen to manage their territories. One of the extraordinary things about this paper is two First Nation Chiefs are co-authors,” explained independent biologist Alexandra Morton. “They didn't write the science, but t...
2022 targets: Easy wins on the road to food security
March 30, 2022 16:02 - 15 minutes - 35 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes CUrrents - Food security is a big issue on Cortes Island. There has been papers, studies and round table discussions, but as the Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA) COVID recovery coordinator, Filipe Figueira has to deal with practical solutions. Specifically, what projects can CCEDA achieve in a year? He recently sat down with Cortes Currents in a wide ranging discussion about the first steps towards food security that touched upon local farmers, t...
Rainwater Harvesting: A more responsible way to water gardens
March 29, 2022 17:42 - 10 minutes - 23.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Quadra ICAN sells 250 gallon water storage tanks at cost ($200 each). According to Kris Wellstein, from the ICAN water security team, they have sold about 200 so far. She connected Cortes Currents with two Heriot Bay residents to get further details about their installations. “Were you around last summer? I think water is a big topic now. Such a dry hot summer. It was a real eye-opener. I think, to a lot of people - if you do garden, you're going to be taxi...
Water taxis to Cortes Bay and Savary Island plus much more
March 28, 2022 18:12 - 4 minutes - 11.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Regular water taxi trips between Lund and Cortes Bay are only one of services that the Access Point Marine Group is bringing to our area. They are transforming Finn Bay, a two minute walk north of Lund, into a hub for water transportation and tourism The water taxi started making scheduled trips to Cortes Island last November, but went to charter service at the end of February because of low volumes. Sue Bossley of Access Point Marine Transportation says reg...
Questions regarding BC First Nations supporting fish farms report
March 28, 2022 14:10 - 2 minutes - 6.32 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -A number of questions have arisen in regard to the report of BC First Nations supporting fish farms brought forward last week Firstly the author of this very polished 20 page is not mentioned and while a great many facts are presented, few sources are given. There is some question as to who the First Nations for Finfish Stewardship actually represents. There were initially said to be 17 Nations, but their map only displays 13 names on their map. The K’omoks Fir...
Lund based company training harbour masters in spill response
March 27, 2022 18:35 - 1 minute - 3.69 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A Lund based company has begun working with The Harbour Authority Association of BC on Spill Response Training. Their first training course with the BC Harbour Authority will start in Tofino on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Successive training sessions will be on a case by case basis. Waterways Environmental is a 100% First Nations owned company that already offers spill response, swiftwater spill response, marine hazmat response, booming, on-water flammable liquid s...
The First Nations calling for a renewal of fish farm licenses
March 25, 2022 15:40 - 11 minutes - 26.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Take four
Sightseeing on the Discovery Island Mail Run
March 24, 2022 22:55 - 6 minutes - 14.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents- According to Luke, the pilot, there are usually sightseers on board when CorilAir delivers the mail in the Discovery Islands. A man from Campbell River and his sister-in-law from Ontario were on the plane when it picked me up at Cortes Bay, on Wednesday, March 23rd. Neither of them had made the trip before, and they were busy taking pictures throughout the trip. So was I. Everything looks much different when you are sitting hundreds of feet up in the air! I als...
2022-3-24 The North Salish Cycle Route
March 24, 2022 11:58 - 4 minutes - 9.96 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The ‘aha moment’ for Sue Bossley arrived last Fall. Her employers, the Access Point Marine Transportation Group, started a water taxi service between Lund and Cortes Island. They had just bridged the final gap in a what was now a continuous loop running through Powell River, Cortes Island and Campbell River. The North Salish Cycle Route was born. “You can start anywhere actually. People from Powell River can ride up to Lund and catch our Cortes water taxi...
Spring Workshops for reconciliation, anti-racism and building a healthy community
March 23, 2022 14:01 - 18 minutes - 42.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Our Heart Learning project is offering offering four learning opportunities to explore reconciliation, anti-racism and building a healthy community in Campbell River. The first workshop is a virtual event facilitated by Mary Catherine Williams on Thursday March 24th. She described it as a journey of reconciliation for nonprofits. This will be followed by a series of workshops about responding to racist incidents. Finally Kathy Camilleri will be holding...
Understanding your BC Assessment on FolkU Radio @89.5FM
March 22, 2022 15:48 - 1 hour - 162 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Wondering what the deal is with this year’s BC Assessments… what does it mean to get a high assessment? How does it relate to the taxes you pay? Why can one community have so much variation? When and how can you contest your assessment. Bill Dawson of BC Assessment joins host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to answer all these questions and more live this Friday at 1 p.m. on 89.5FM or livestream from cortesradio.ca. Stay tuned because after Roy Hales from Cortes Cur...
Removing select old growth from a woodlot on Quadra Island
March 21, 2022 15:48 - 12 minutes - 28.2 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents -Three months ago, Cortes Currents published a story about some old growth trees cut down in one of Quadra Island’s woodlots. It almost immediately became apparent that some of the information I had been given me was incorrect and there was more to the story. So I published a retraction. As the site was buried under two feet of snow, the woodlot licensees invited me to examine the site myself in the Spring. That was how I came to visit woodlot 2031 on Saturday, Mar...
The Quadra Project: challenging the way people think about forestry
March 20, 2022 21:42 - 19 minutes - 44.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Prior to embarking upon a literary career, in 1985, Ray Grigg taught English, literary history, fine arts and comparative world religions in British Columbia’s High School system. Since then, he has written a long list of books on Taoism, Zen and environmental issues. Grigg was also the author of a column called ‘Shades of Green,’ which ran in the Campbell River Courier-Islander for 15 years. A little over half a year ago, he started writing a series of articles...
SRD Report: New details on the TELUS tower(s)
March 18, 2022 13:26 - 10 minutes - 25 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Regional Director Noba Anderson unveiled some new information about TELUS's proposed Cortes Island cell phone tower in a report she gave the SRD Board on Wednesday March 16th, 2022. Anderson reported on her own communications the Tla’amin Nation and mentions CityWest also reaching out to that nation. TELUS appears to have aborted the proposed tower projects in Squirrel Cove and is instead putting micro cells on telephone poles. However the telecommunication...