Cortes Currents
1,486 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 23 hours 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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Bear in my Bubble by Manuel Perdisa
November 24, 2020 07:02 - 2.44 MBManuel Perdisa / Bear in My Bubble
Squirrel Cove Bear
November 23, 2020 20:07 - 76.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Curt Cunningham first encountered the Squirrel Cove Bear while it was still a cub. Not knowing where the creature’s mother was, Cunningham took refuge inside the Cove Restaurant. No mother bear appeared and the cub disappeared into the woods. That was a year or more ago. interviews, by ZOOM, Skype or email, with Nancy Beach, Laurel Bohart, Curt cunningham, Sandy Hoffman, Derek and Lore Mack-Mumford, and Conservation officer Brad Adams.
COVID 19 in Campbell River and North Vancouver Island
November 21, 2020 15:48 - 9.51 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There was a COVID 19 outbreak at the Discovery Harbour Care Centre in Campbell River, where a staff person tested positive on Thursday, November 19th. A press release from Island Health states: “At this time, no residents are experiencing symptoms. Communication with residents and families is underway. Discovery Harbour is owned and operated by Park Place Seniors Living. The staff member who tested positive is self-isolating at home. The outbreak is limited t...
Friends of Cortes Island AGM
November 20, 2020 17:14 - 7.2 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes Island Society held their annual general meeting this past wednesday evening, November 18th. There were approximately 16 people in attendance. The meeting was hosted by Max Thaysen, president of the board of directors, and much of the presentation was given by Helen Hall, FOCI's executive director. In the executive director's report, Helen Hall gave a summary of the past years' activities. A written version is available on their websi...
Will there be a Federal election in 2021?
November 18, 2020 22:47 - 10.5 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Only weeks ago, Canada was on the verge of a Federal election. If the NDP had stood beside the Conservative party, they could have toppled the Trudeau government. Our Member of Parliament, Rachel Blaney, explains why they didn’t and what she thinks the prospects are for a Federal election in 2021. Shortly after the management of a $900 million student grant to WE Charity was announced, the Federal government came under fire for WE’s alleged connections to both ...
Rachel Blaney appointed the NDP Deputy Critic for Crown-Indigenous Relations and Indigenous Service
November 18, 2020 21:17 - 12.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Our MP, Rachel Blaney, was appointed the NDP Deputy Critic for Crown-Indigenous Relations and Indigenous Services. Blaney said NDP party leader Jagmeet Singh is passionate about the issues that indigenous communities across Canada are facing. So after the last election, he assumed the role as the principal party spokesperson for these concerns. She added, “He made the decision, after the last election, to take on the role of the main spokesperson on these i...
Affordable housing is within reach for British Columbians
November 16, 2020 15:07 - 24.7 MBTan Mei Xi/ Vancouver Co-op Radio Local Journalism Initiative -Affordable housing is within reach for British Columbians with a manageable amount of government investment, says a housing expert. The Affordable Housing Plan produced by the BC Non-Profit Housing Association (BCNPHA) calls for an annual $1.8 billion in government investment for building affordable housing. Jill Atkey, CEO of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, noted that the level of investment her organisation called for is...
Annamie Paul in Conversation
November 15, 2020 16:09 - 13.1 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There could be a federal election next Spring and Green party leader Annamie Paul is looking for promising candidates. Also, the Canadian Government is expected to release its proposed climate legislation on Monday. These were a couple of the ideas mentioned Saturday, when the North Island-Powell River Greens hosted a ZOOM conference entitled Annamie Paul in conversation. >>> Growing support She was joined by three Green candidates from the recent provincial e...
Safe return to play: Novice hockey during COVID-19
November 14, 2020 19:00 - 24.7 MBOdette Auger/ Cortes Currents - The following article is an excerpt from a program that was originally aired on Cortes Radio. This program was funded by a grant from the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Government of Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative.This is Odette Auger with Cortes Currents. In the parking lot at Strathcona Gardens Recreation Complex, COVID-1919 Ambassadors take in screening checklists, supervise hand sanitizing, as the novice hockey kids arrive at the arena. The ...
Friday the 13th: Vancouver Island's Highest daily Covid count
November 14, 2020 16:45 - 6.57 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On Friday, Health Minister Adrian Dix and Chief Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced there were 16 new COVID cases in Island Health. This is our region’s highest daily total since the pandemic began. Over the course of the last five days, the number of active cases on Vancouver Island has increased from 39 to 67. Two people were admitted to Intensive Care Units, which hasn’t happened for months. While a series of media reports are coming ou...
COVID: The 90% Protective vaccine
November 13, 2020 18:23 - 15.4 MBDavid P. Ball/Vancouver Co-op Radio, local Journalism Initiative -Dr. Thomas Madden, with Acuitas Therapeutics at UBC, says that most vulnerable communities will be first to receive the "90% protective" vaccine he helped discover. A Vancouver scientist says he is proud of his team's contribution to the world's most promising vaccine candidate yet to defeat COVID-19 — and potential begin the end of the ongoing pandemic. And with the Prime Minister promising that any vaccine distributed by Ca...
COVID 19 cases: 6 more in Campbell River during October
November 13, 2020 16:01 - 11.3 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - BC Health officials tell us the number of COVID 19 cases is doubling once almost every 13 days. There were close to 5,800 active cases as of 4:30 PM, Thursday, November 12th. “The data shows us that the virus is able to transmit far more easily in the colder weather when we are spending more time indoors, which means that many of the things that we were able to do safely this summer are no longer safe,” said Provincial Health Officer said Dr Bonnie Henry. Cam...
The quathet Regional District's Beach Clean-up Program
November 12, 2020 15:08 - 8.91 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Across the waters just to the south of Cortes Island, the qathet Regional District has been carrying out extensive beach-clean-ups for several years. The most recent outgrowth of this is the opening of BC’s first Ocean Plastic Depot in Powell River last month. Abby McLennan, from Let’s Talk Trash, says that started the beach clean-up program in 2017. How the beach clean-ups began “A resident, who spends a lot of time on his boat, contacted the Regional Distr...
8 Active cases in North Vancouver Island
November 10, 2020 16:57 - 3.69 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - According to a November 9th report from Island Health, there are now 8 active COVID cases in that part of Vancouver Island stretching north from Courtenay and the Comox Valley. While the number is trivial, most of us probably haven’t even seen one of those eight people, the trajectory is not. It wasn’t so long ago that the reports were of one to three new cases in a week. Data for the Campbell River Health Area The BC Centre Disease Control releases statistics ...
preliminary surplus report for the electoral areas
November 09, 2020 16:28 - 11.7 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - COVID has not had a negative impact on the SRD’s Electoral areas finances. The accounts carry a surplus forward every year, and 2020 is not an exception. SRD staff just released a preliminary surplus report for the electoral areas during 2020. In the podcast above, Chief Administration officer David Leach explains this year’s $325,529 surplus for planning to Regional Director Jim Abram. While this is technically a surplus, it is right on budget and should not b...
Decades of Government housing policy caused the affordability crisis
November 08, 2020 12:42 - 65.8 MBTan Mei Xi/Vancouver Co-op Radio, Local Journalism Initiative - For Vancouverites, the drastic increase in unaffordability in the city only became an issue in the last 15 years, but an urban affairs reporter says the crisis has its roots in decades of housing policy. According to The Tyee urban sociology reporter Chris Cheung, before the 1970s, the federal and provincial governments were building thousands of affordable housing units every year. "Even before the 1970s, [there was] a consens...
SRD passes Rainbow Ridge application
November 07, 2020 23:34 - 7.49 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - After 24 minutes of debate, the SRD passed Rainbow Ridge’s application to have a six acre portion of land rezoned to facilitate the development of up to 22 seniors' and affordable housing units. At one point it looked like the whole issue could be put on hold until an accidentally omitted January 10th letter from Island Health was made available to every director. The resulting vote was split along very familiar lines, to anyone who has been observing the Strat...
Myth about Quadra Island RCMP detachment - busted
November 06, 2020 18:17 - 12 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There is a false report about the Quadra Island RCMP detachment circulating on Cortes Island. I was recently informed they are shutting down. So Cortes Currents emailed the head of the Quadra detachment, Cpl. Sean Bulford, the following questions. 1. Is it true? Cpl. Bulford - “No. However, with continued budget constraints and minimal increases in resources for several consecutive years, the RCMP in E-Division (BC) have been looking at ways to maximize the...
BC's First Ocean Plastic Depot
November 06, 2020 13:23 - 12.8 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A 2014 study estimates there are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. There is also a great deal of polystyrene. These are two of the most prevalent types of ocean debris washing up on our beaches. The Ocean Legacy Foundation decided to do something about it and partnered with the qathet Regional District to open up BC’s first Ocean Plastic Depot in Powell River. This is the first of a series of two interviews with Abby McLennan from Let...
High expectations for this Year's Chum Return
November 05, 2020 15:14 - 6.14 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to data on the Pacific Salmon Explorer website, Northeastern Vancouver Island’s Chum runs have tended to be about 42% lower in the last decade. 2016 was an exception. Pete Calverley, from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society, recently told the National Observer, “This year’s chum spawners are the result of a strong parent run four years ago.” The final numbers are not in yet, but there are high expectations for this year’s Chum return. Terry...
SRD released hall tax funding
November 04, 2020 14:32 - 5.34 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) released the funding for Cortes Island’s community halls. Though they were to have received this money in quarterly instalments, it has been close to a year since the SRD passed the Bylaw “to establish a community hall service within and for the benefit of Electoral Area B (Cortes Island).” The minutes of that meeting refer to the need for “a further report outlining next steps for implementing the community hall service.” ...
Proposed campbell river Tax increase and service cuts
November 03, 2020 14:27 - 5.81 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - In response to reduced revenues arising from the pandemic, the city of Campbell River plans to increase property taxes and either defer or cancel $1.5 million dollars worth of services. Why this is important for the Discovery Islands? While this does not directly effect Cortes Island, Quadra Island, or the other Discovery Islands, we are in the Strathcona Regional District. Close to 80% of the SRD’s inhabitants live in Campbell River. Mayor Andy Adams, and...
Chum Salmon have returned to Basil Creek
November 02, 2020 16:07 - 5.27 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Chum salmon have returned. Last year was disappointing. Cec Robinson told Cortes Currents there were perhaps 50, but there had been close to 1,300 in 2016. So Cortes Streamkeepers anticipate a much stronger count this year. There were between three and four dozen around the new culvert on Basil Creek on Sunday, Nov 1, 2020. Most were swarming around the front, but at least a half dozen were on the other side. The Tideline carries Christine Robinson’s report...
Pulse 10 30 Interview
October 31, 2020 13:43 - 24.3 MBTan Mei Xi/Vancouver Co-op Radio, Local Journalism Initiative - Vancouver's City Council has been passing a number of motions to alleviate the city's homelessness crisis since May. But for those on the street or in tent cities, those motions haven't translated into changes in their living conditions. Earlier in September, Council directed staff to report back on five options to alleviate the homelessness crisis, including leasing apartment buildings, hotels, or motels; allowing tiny homes; c...
The Pulse Interview Oct 27 Podcast
October 31, 2020 12:56 - 22.5 MBDavid P. Ball/Vancouver Co-op Radio, local Journalism Initiative -Although Premier Horgan's $10-a-day childcare pledge would be a game-changer for many, Simon Fraser University's Stewart Prest said other important issues — renters rights, welfare rates, homelessness and drug laws — got sideswiped off the election campaign stage by COVID-19. The political scientist in Vancouver said people hopeful for radical reforms from the newly elected B.C. New Democrat majority government should probably...
Last Day for Quinsam Road camp
October 31, 2020 12:22 - 7.18 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Last Day for Quinsam Road camp Friday, Oct 30th, was the last day for Quinsam Road camp in Campbell River. There were only three residents remaining and all left peacefully when the RCMP and Ministry of Natural Resources went up to clean the site. “At one point, there was about twenty people living in four or five different camps,” said Cst. Maury Tyre. During the five to six months months the property was occupied, the RCMP opened more than 50 case files: f...
Cortes Island's halls haven't received any funding
October 30, 2020 15:25 - 12.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A little over a year ago, a year since three quarters of the Cortes Island respondents voted to fund the Island’s two community halls through our taxes. Early last December, Strathcona Regional District (SRD) staff received the go-ahead, to start negotiations with the Whaletown Community Club (WCC) and the Southern Cortes Community Association (SCCA), which manage Gorge and Mansons Halls. The WCC and SCCA still haven’t received any funding or been told what is ...
Preliminary Voting Results as of October 28, 2020
October 29, 2020 14:28 - 2.57 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The most recent change to Elections BC's Preliminary Voting Results, at the time of this writing, was made at 2:53 PM on October 28, 2020. Though the numbers changed, the list of winners has not. The NDP appear to have been elected in eleven Vancouver Island ridings, and Green party MLAs were re-elected in the other two. NDP challenger Adam Walker is still a thousand votes ahead of the Liberal incumbent in Parksville-Qualicum, the closest race on Vancouver I...
The Cortes Natural Food Co-op's best year ever
October 28, 2020 13:07 - 13.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The pandemic inflicted deep financial wounds on some businesses; others prospered. Things looked pretty uncertain when the crisis reared its head last March but, as manager Eric Hargrave explains, 2020 is turning into the Cortes Natural Food Co-op’s best year ever. >>> Best Year Ever in terms of sales “In terms of net profit, it’s the biggest we have ever seen - for the first half of the year at least and we expect that to continue,” he began. Hargave was ...
Provincial order limiting the size of gatherings in homes
October 27, 2020 13:33 - 5.61 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There is currently only one active case of COVID 19 in North Vancouver Island and there have been no reports of new cases anywhere on Vancouver Island since last Thursday, but British Columbia has just set a record for the highest daily rise over a three-day period. As of 4:30 PM Monday, there were 2,316 active cases, and 77 people in hospitals, on the Mainland. It is not certain that Vancouver Island will continue to remain relatively COVID free while the virus...
Green Party numbers on Vancouver Island
October 25, 2020 14:48 - 5.9 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The final count will not be finished for another three weeks. However as of 1:58 AM this morning, Elections BC reports that 45.03% of the known electorate voted NDP, 35.41% chose the Liberal and 15.30% the Greens. John Horgan won his majority, Michele Babchuk is our new MLA. and the only real surprise was the Green party numbers on Vancouver Island. Sonia Furstenau and Adam Olsen have both been re-elected. The Green party has also won its first seat on the...
Cortes Community Forest
October 24, 2020 23:37 - 79.7 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - This week, Cortes Currents presents a conversation with the Manager of the Cortes Community Forest, Mark Lombard, and President of the Cortes Community Forest Cooperative, Carrie Saxifrage. The Cortes Community Forest Cooperative (CCFC) is the non-aboriginal equal partner with the Klahoose First Nation in the Cortes Forest General Partnership (CFGP).
How do democracies go wrong?
October 24, 2020 18:07 - 137 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Radio - With a high stakes election in the U.S., a sudden BC election called amidst a pandemic, and numerous local elections across Canada, the role of democracy is on many people’s minds. What works? What doesn’t? How is it that democracies can be used for personal gain and it can seem so hard to change things even when they seem to so obviously go wrong. This week’s guest, Rex Weyler, is a pulitzer-prized nominated author, journalist, ecologist, co-founder o...
The SRD's Response to Petition
October 24, 2020 14:24 - 10.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On July 13th, Regional Director Noba Anderson’s lawyer filed a suit against the Strathcona Regional District (SRD), in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She seeks repayment of her legal fees, from a frivolous lawsuit brought against her last year, and the dismissal of a subsequent SRD motion of censure. The case is to be heard sometime during the assize week starting November 23, 2020. James H Goulden just filed the SRD’s Response to Petition. >>> Legal ar...
Election 2020: Raising BC’s Self sufficiency
October 23, 2020 16:30 - 10.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Though only a little more than 2% of the electorate voted for him in the last provincial election, John Twigg is back. This time he is running for the Conservative party - which has not contested this seat for decades. Twig especially wants to talk about self sufficiency in food, policing and banking He is a veteran journalist who previously served as Premier Dave Barrett’s press secretary (1972-75), and was the Financial Editor for the Regina Leader-Post (197...
Direct cash transfers can lift people out of homelessness
October 22, 2020 18:12 - 24.4 MBTan Mei Xi/ The Pulse (CRFO 100.5 FM, Local Journalism Initiative - How can society help folks experiencing homelessness? A new study based in the Lower Mainland shows that one of the solutions can be simple—just give folks cash. Foundations for Social Change, a Vancouver-based organization, worked with UBC researchers to examine whether direct, unconditional, and one-time cash transfers could help lift people out of homelessness. The study found that research participants who had received c...
The Wet'suwet'en Conflict
October 22, 2020 14:58 - 3.67 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - This past winter/spring – the conflict between Coastal Gaslink pipeline the BC gov and the wetsuweten nation resulted in nation-wide solidarity actions and mass protest. The issue was not resolved and protest was quieted by the pandemic. Cortes Currents reached out to the NDP, Liberal, Green and Conservative candidates for their views on the conflict in Wet’suwet’en territory. We asked how the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples could accord with ...
The could become the longest election in BC history
October 21, 2020 14:02 - 3.86 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - This could become the longest election in bc recent historuy. Advance voting in our riding began last Thursday, October 15th, in the Campbell River Commons. Though Elections BC states it will release a preliminary count after 8 PM on election day, October 24th, the final count begins on Nov 6, and Return day (ie the official count) is expected to be Monday Nov 16th. This means that unless there is an NDP landslide, we may not know the final result until three ...
How Toba Got It's Name
October 19, 2020 14:47 - 14.4 MBRoy L Hales/Deep Roots - Toba is not an English word, or Coast Salish. The first Europeans to visit this remote fjord on the West Coast of British Columbia were Spanish. Deep Roots story producer Roy L Hales interviews Michelle Robinson and Ken Hanuse, from the Klahoose First Nation, and local historian Judith Williams about the story behind Toba Inlet's name.
Party leaders in Campbell River weekend of Oct 17/18
October 18, 2020 21:41 - 11.1 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The leaders of BC’s two largest political parties were in Campbell River over the week-end. Andrew Wilson criticizes NDP forestry Standing on a flat-deck truck in the Discovery plaza, Saturday, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson criticized the NDP’s failure to address the forestry crisis. “Last year and earlier this year, we had an eight month strike at Western. Most of you felt that – hard. If you were in Port McNeill: you watched coffee shops shut down perma...
Beach Clean-up
October 17, 2020 21:16 - 61.9 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - “If we can go out and clean up - helping another set of communities like the Heiltsuk, Kitasoo/Xai’Xais and Gitga’at - we can certainly start cleaning up our community. That’s what I’d really like to see coming out of this,” said Jonas Fineman. He was one of nine eco-tour captains who had just returned from a beach clean up along BC’s central coast. >>> The Misty Isles Jonas was hired to serve as captain of the 70’ foot ketch "Island Odyssey", but his name i...
Archaelogy 102: the BC edition
October 16, 2020 22:16 - 271 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U Radio - Achaeology 102: the BC edition of the Science of Once and Future Things. It’s fascinating to think about how human civilization evolved. In Archaeology 102: The Science of Once and Future Things BC edition professor and neighbour Dr. Brian Hayden, archeologist, takes us through thousands of years of human history and what it can tell us about the peoples of BC. Archaeology, like all sciences, has those aspects of it which are certain, probable, and s...
Rainbow Ridge Rezoning Hearing
October 16, 2020 20:00 - 1.32 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Cortes Currents - The Rainbow Ridge Rezoning Public Hearing was held this Thursday October 15, 2020, at 2 p.m., six months after it’s originally scheduled date, which was postponed due to COVID19. In question was the rezoning of a 2.45-hectare portion of the 20.75-hectare Rainbow Ridge property. The public hearing involved an in-person option, a phone-in options, and a livestream option: to ensure numerous options for the public while maintaining public safety protoc...
Only 2 new cases in North Vancouver Island
October 16, 2020 14:40 - 3.69 MBRoy L HaLes/Cortes Currents - Though the number cases is still rising, there are still fewer deaths and and hospitalizations in the second wave of COVID 19. There were 968 new cases reported in British Columbia last week. The majority were in the Fraser and North Coast Health Regions. Vancouver Island continues to report the lowest numbers in the province and there were only two new cases in North Vancouver Island last week. Comparing weekly maps released by the BC Centre for Disease Contro...
Homeless encampment at Quinsam Road served notice
October 15, 2020 13:54 - 6.28 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The two incidents are unrelated. On October 8th, a homeless shelter in the forest behind the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church in Campbell River caught fire. The blaze started in the structure’s homemade fireplace. Neither of the two occupants were injured, but RCMP Cst. Maury Tyre said the fire easily have spread to nearby buildings. The day before this, the Campbell River Mirror reported that the homeless encampment at Quinsam road will soon be served with a...
BC's economic challenge
October 13, 2020 18:13 - 13.2 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - “ … The challenge is the economics that is going to come home fairly quickly. We’ve had too many people off business; off work. The bills are building and we must address that,” said BC Liberal candidate Norm Facey, in the only interview he granted Cortes Currents. “I’m not saying we’re going to run in and balance the budget – because we’re not. We are going to run in and take care of people. We’re going to make sure that services are extended. We’re going to r...
Discovery Island items at the Strathcona Regional District Board Meeting
October 11, 2020 23:07 - 9.71 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - There were a lot of Discovery Island Items at the SRD (Strathcona Regional District) Board meeting last week. Cannabis on Cortes Island Cortes Island’s zoning bylaw is being amended. “I’m looking to be able to allow cannabis production and sale, pretty much in alignment with the existing provincial and federal regulations without requiring site specific zoning. but delighted to work with staff to bring something back for the public’s consideration,” said Regi...
Should the BC Government keep giving fossil fuel companies subsidies and tax cuts?
October 11, 2020 14:57 - 12.6 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Many scientists believe we have seven years to avert the worst ravages of the impending Climate Crisis. Even if they are wrong, it is clear that British Columbia must transition to cleaner energy sources. Should the BC government continue to pay out close to $1 billion a year in fossil fuel subsidies and tax cuts?
Campbell River Health Area releatively COVID free
October 09, 2020 15:34 - 9.03 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Statistics released by the BC Centre for Disease Control show that our area is relatively COVID free. These are found on a series of maps, and a weekly report, released on Thursday, October 8th. One of the maps shows the number of new COVID cases in the previous fourteen days. While there were 19 reported on Vancouver Island, only three were in the region stretching north from Courtenay. Another map gives the total number of cases, since the outbreak began, i...