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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Daily News - Drug Overdoses
August 27, 2020 20:31 - 1.59 MBRoy L Hales/Daily News - This is a Cortes Currents news update broadcast over Cortes Radio, CKTZ 89.5 FM. It has been a week since B.C.’s chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe “The number of people dying in B.C. due to an unsafe drug supply continues to surpass deaths due to homicides, motor vehicle accidents, suicide and COVID-19 combined.” As of July 31, there have been 92 overdose fatalities in Southern Vancouver Island so far this year. Victoria has the second highest number of drug overdose de...
Hall Tax & First responders funding
August 26, 2020 14:58 - 1.29 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District moved one step closer to implementing its decision to fund Cortes Island’s first responder program and two community halls at its Aug 19th board meeting. Chair Michele Babchuk and the SRD’s Corporate Officer received authorization to sign five year agreements with both the Southern Cortes Community Association and Whaletown Community. Payments will be made in quarterly instalments. The SRD Board also passed a bylaw to authoriz...
Cortes Island Wildfire Protection Plan update
August 25, 2020 22:35 - 2.66 MBRoy L Hales/ Public Service Announcement - Most of you have now received a questionnaire, about the Cortes Island Community Wildfire Protection Plan, through the mail. According to the records we possess, going back to 1950, Cortes hasn’t had a fire larger than 10 hectares in extent - but our climate is changing, wildfires are getting bigger and however unlikely it seems at the moment, we need to be prepared in case there is a major wildfire. “Residents still have a month to give their feedb...
Listening In: The Cat's Table
August 24, 2020 15:26 - 29.8 MBFrancesca/Listening In - The Cat's Table is a novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje first published in 2011. It was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel is a coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy's journey on a large ship's three-week voyage from Columbia to England, via the Suez Canal and Mediterranean.
Reinventing Hollyhock for a virtual world
August 21, 2020 16:59 - 24.4 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - In a normal year, Cortes Island’s best known learning centre needs to take in $3 million in revenues to keep operating. 2020 has been anything but normal. As a result of COVID, most of this year’s programs were cancelled and Hollyhock could not rehire most of its usual staff. This has also been a year of innovations: with courses being offered online for the first time and a day-long virtual Hollyhock-a-thon called ‘Shine the Light.’ The Cortes Island centre’s re...
Listening In - Wild Dogs
August 17, 2020 13:04 - 30.8 MBFrancesca Gesualdi/ LIstening In - Helen Humphreys’ fourth novel, Wild Dogs, sure to be a hit with canine lovers everywhere, launches with a bold and poetic narrative voice. It is Alice, describing the circumstances of six strangers who’ve bonded over the loss of their dogs, now roaming as a pack in the woods. She readies us for one of the novel’s extended metaphors – “Love is like those wild dogs.”
Deep Roots - Language Warrior
August 13, 2020 23:27 - 18.7 MBOdette Auger/Deep Roots - Language Warrior is a story about Jessie Louie, and her life’s work preserving and revitalizing ʔayʔaǰuθəm a distinct dialect of Northern Salishan. Jessie knows the value of reclaiming language as a source of strength; a treasure to preserve, and a key to survival.
Deep Roots - Toba: the Hearthome
August 13, 2020 23:08 - 20.8 MBToba Inlet is the glacier blue artery punching into the heart of the Toba River Valley and its mountainous flanks to access the mainland body of Klahoose traditional territory. An entity in and of itself, Toba resources were, and continue to be, vital to Klahoose survival, culture and economic well-being. The notion place can have affect on those that reside there is ancient and widespread in human history. The Toba has shaped and has been shaped by the Klahoose, and the settlers, homestea...
Deep Roots 10 - Jessie Louie, First Female Chief of the Klahoose
August 13, 2020 22:33 - 20.7 MBOdette AUger/ Deep Roots - The electoral system was brought by the Canadian government and imposed upon nations who with hereditary chiefs. It was was meant to bring equality and prevent oppression. If this has happened, it is only through the strength, determination and honour of leaders like Jessie Louie. She was the first woman chief of Klahoose, elected at a time when women in leadership roles were few.
Deep Roots - Reclaiming Culture, Culture Nights
August 11, 2020 23:55 - 17.1 MBOdette Auger/ Deep Roots - Reclaiming Culture is a look into Culture nights with Michelle Robinson. What is shared over a meal? More than food, teachings are passed along through generations. Gathering to celebrate identity inspires drum making, and new songs are sung. Songs were lost as a direct result of intentional oppression [eg. residential school]. When Klahoose writes new songs to Welcome people to their lands, we are witnessing a profound moment of living culture, of cutting edge lang...
Deep Roots - Behind Every Good Man Are Strong Women
August 11, 2020 23:29 - 16.1 MBJacqueline Mathieu/ Deep Roots - Behind Every Good Man Are Strong Women In this episode Deep Roots producer Jacqueline Mathieu takes us on a journey through one woman’s determination to reclaim a piece of her culture, through a coming of age ceremony and her son’s journey to claiming his identity.
Deep Roots - Journeys To Womanhood
August 10, 2020 19:51 - 19.3 MBCarrie Saxifrage/ Deep Roots - When a girl approaches puberty, her culture’s attitudes toward women and sex come at her in new and often intense ways, both by what is said and also by what is left unsaid. Elder Helen Nora Hansen was raised in a residential school that treated coming of age with the silence of shame. Michelle Robinson’s parents raised her in the bush in Klahoose traditional territory and gave her the traditional teachings about coming of age. From their dramatically different ...
Deep Roots - Princess J
August 10, 2020 19:22 - 15 MBMorgan Tams/ Deep Roots - Jacqueline Mathieu’s journey to uncover her indigenous roots began in the most unexpected of places - an animated movie. Driven by an obsession with the main character, an interest in her own heritage blossomed over the course of her young life, as her journey to understand her culture began to stretch into the lives of her mother, her family, her community and beyond. In this episode of Deep Roots Island Waves, Jacqueline tells producer Morgan Rhys Tams the story of...
Deep Roots - Connected to her Roots
August 10, 2020 18:50 - 17.5 MBCarrie Saxifrage/ Deep Roots - Settlers and immigrants in coastal BC are like driftwood tossed onto a shore where trees still stand. We came from afar to live among First Nations still connected to their roots. Some of us wonder what it’s like to be connected to the place of one’s ancestral roots and how ancient traditions nourish current generations. In this edition of Deep Roots Island Waves, Michelle Robinson tells story producer Carrie Saxifrages her experience of coming of age
A Reshuffling of Atoms
August 10, 2020 13:54 - 39.9 MBMercedes Grant/ Deep Roots - Why are we so afraid of death and how do we prepare for it? For something that’s inevitable we sure do our best to avoid it. Mercedes Grant takes us on a personal journey of grief and resolution.
Deep Roots - The Energetic Forest
August 10, 2020 13:15 - 41.1 MBRick Bockner/ Deep Roots - “Do trees communicate? Do they look after each other and other species? Story Producer Rick Bockner unearths a sophisticated network of co-dependent life forces, below and above our feet. “Every year, millions of people go to the forests to hike, camp, gather foods and medicines, and to renew themselves.We instinctively respond to the presence of trees, especially old ones, by slowing down, and becoming more silent, and Time slows and we begin to see things we had ...
Deep Roots - Owl Wisdom
August 10, 2020 12:56 - 40.5 MBAnnie Rosenberg / Deep Roots -Decades after a nearly unspeakable family tragedy, family members gain insight from what appears to be a chance encounter, later revealing itself as an auspicious message.
Finding Gilean Douglas & The Protected Place
August 10, 2020 12:31 - 41.2 MBSobhanā Dilani Hippola/ Deep Roots - In search of the deep spiritual roots of today’s environmental crisis, Sobhanā Dilani Hippola traces the footsteps of a pioneer spiritual ecologist, Gilean Douglas, from an old miner’s shack in the Cascade mountains to the majestic land of Channel Rock here on Cortes Island. Gilean’s life and nature writings offer insight into the importance of dwelling close to wilderness and protecting sacred places.
Deep Roots #8 - Clam Gardens
August 10, 2020 12:06 - 41.1 MBOdette Auger/Deep Roots - Legend tells us first peoples of the Northwest Coast cultivated shellfish. To explore this further and to consider current shellfish farming and our future, Oudette Auger speaks with Judith Williams, author of “Clam Gardens.”
Deep Roots - Stuff
August 10, 2020 11:46 - 55.8 MBMorgan Tams/Deep Roots -Our material world is obsessed with acquiring and accumulating stuff. But how much do we all really need? Morgan Tams looks for options and solutions to this omnipresent conundrum.
Deep Roots - Who Speaks for Brother Wolf
August 10, 2020 11:14 - 41.4 MBNatalia Auger Nybida/Deep Roots - Western culture paints wolves with a dark brush as evil characters in myths and fairytales, but perhaps that’s because they’re more like us than we care to admit. Natalia Auger Nybida takes a deep look at the essential role wolves play in our ecosystem.
Vintage Vignette #14 - Frozen Pipes
August 10, 2020 00:20 - 5.04 MBVintage Vignettes #14 - Frozen Pipes From the delightful memoirs of Violet Herrewig.
Vintage Vignette #13 - Holiday Hooch
August 10, 2020 00:16 - 3.82 MBVintage Vignettes #13 - Holiday Hooch - Loggers moonshine. Mary McMillan tells this story about Joe Gregson, a real Cortes Old-Timer
Vintage Vignette 12 Mouse Pie
August 10, 2020 00:03 - 4.53 MBVintage Vignettes #12 - Mouse Pie Mouse pie! Now introducing Peter Police, the man, the myth, the legend.
Vintage Vignette #11 - Big Dance
August 09, 2020 23:55 - 3.9 MBVintage Vignettes #11 - Big Dance. A lively dance!. Penned by Peggy Pyner, reporting for the Manson’s Landing Mirror in 1955.
Vintage Vignette #10 - Chores
August 09, 2020 23:39 - 4.12 MBVintage Vignettes #10 - Chores. Now that’s a load of chores! From an interview with Larry Borland, resident of 821 Sutil Point Rd from 1948-1968
Vintage Vignette #9 - Post Office
August 09, 2020 23:27 - 4.72 MBVintage Vignettes #9 - The first Squirrel Cove Post Office. From the desk of the Post Office Inspector, Victoria BC, August 19th, 1915. To a Mr. David Forrest of Squirrel Cove.
Vintage Vignette #8 - Steamship
August 09, 2020 23:18 - 3.07 MBVintage Vignettes #8 - Steamship A tale from Gladys Houghton-Brown Rekert about her first adventure up to Cortes aboard the Union Steamship in 1927!
Vintage Vignette 7 Women Loggers
August 04, 2020 04:13Vintage Vignettes #7 - Women Loggers. Women loggers! Barbara Thompson looks back on her days of being a logger in Carrington Bay
Vintage Vignette #7 - Women Loggers
August 04, 2020 04:13 - 3.95 MBVintage Vignettes #7 - Women Loggers. Women loggers! Barbara Thompson looks back on her days of being a logger in Carrington Bay
Vintage Vignette 6 Overland Route
August 04, 2020 04:07Vintage Vignettes #6 - Overland Route. The first overland drive the length of Cortes Island; a True Tale of Travel and Adventure as told by Frank Hayes.
Vintage Vignettes #6 - Overland Route on Cortes Island
August 04, 2020 04:07 - 4.65 MBVintage Vignettes #6 - Overland Route. The first overland drive the length of Cortes Island; a True Tale of Travel and Adventure as told by Frank Hayes.
Vintage Vignette #5 the 1946 Earthquake
August 04, 2020 04:02Vintage Vignettes #5 - When an earthquake hit the islands in 1946, it left the islanders a little shaken up. Reverend RM Boas reports.
Vintage Vignette #5 - the 1946 Earthquake
August 04, 2020 04:02 - 4.7 MBVintage Vignettes #5 - When an earthquake hit the islands in 1946, it left the islanders a little shaken up. Reverend RM Boas reports.
Vintage Vignette #4 - Ken Hansen Moves A Cow
August 04, 2020 03:57 - 4.36 MBVintage Vignettes #4 - Ken Hansen moving a Cow to Cortes From the typewriter of Mary Ward, reporting for the Cortes Grapevine 1964
Vintage Vignette 4 Cow
August 04, 2020 03:57Vintage Vignettes #4 - Ken Hansen moving a Cow to Cortes From the typewriter of Mary Ward, reporting for the Cortes Grapevine 1964
Vintage Vignette 3 Escape The Anthill
August 04, 2020 03:49Vintage Vignettes #3 - Escape the Anthill Ruminations from retired logger Elton Anderson, questioning the soundness of his decision to move away from Cortes Island and take up residence on the Vancouver anthill.
Vintage Vignette #3 - Escape The Anthill
August 04, 2020 03:49 - 4.29 MBVintage Vignettes #3 - Escape the Anthill Ruminations from retired logger Elton Anderson, questioning the soundness of his decision to move away from Cortes Island and take up residence on the Vancouver anthill.
Vintage Vignette 2 Wharf Out
August 04, 2020 03:33Vintage Vignettes #2 -The Wharf is Out: Penned by Peg Pyner, reporting for the Manson’s Landing Mirror, Nov. 5, 1954
Vintage Vignette #2 - Wharf Out
August 04, 2020 03:33 - 4.19 MBVintage Vignettes #2 -The Wharf is Out: Penned by Peg Pyner, reporting for the Manson’s Landing Mirror, Nov. 5, 1954
Vintage Vignettes #1 Lost Teeth
August 04, 2020 03:16Vintage Vignettes #1 - Hot off the press from the late 1940’s Whaletown National Enquirer! - Lost teeth
Vintage Vignettes #1 - Lost Teeth
August 04, 2020 03:16 - 3.14 MBVintage Vignettes #1 - Hot off the press from the late 1940’s Whaletown National Enquirer! - Lost teeth
Cortes Currents - Touch the Land
August 01, 2020 16:21 - 45 MBOdette Auger/Cortes Currents - looks at an IndigenEYEZ training series: The intention of Touch the Earth land-based leadership training is to support front line workers in bringing youth out on the land in a way that is fun and engaging, and nurturing. We talk a lot about returning children to the centre of the community, and acknowledge it takes a community to raise a child. And I invite us to think of that community as also being our relations on the land. Our four legged, and two legged, a...
Touch the Land
August 01, 2020 16:21Odette Auger/Cortes Currents - looks at an IndigenEYEZ training series: The intention of Touch the Earth land-based leadership training is to support front line workers in bringing youth out on the land in a way that is fun and engaging, and nurturing. We talk a lot about returning children to the centre of the community, and acknowledge it takes a community to raise a child. And I invite us to think of that community as also being our relations on the land. Our four legged, and two legged, a...
Listening In - Dr.Bonnie Henry
July 26, 2020 18:07 - 29.2 MBMaria/Listening In - The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America's leading public health authorities, now updated with a new introduction on protecting yourself and others from COVID-19.
Folk U - The Eye of the Octopus
July 25, 2020 21:32 - 108 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U Fridays - Michael Moore explaining the mysterious underwater world of octopuses.
Collapse - Now - Avoid - The - Rush
July 25, 2020 20:51Max Thaysen/Cortes Currents - This year has seen a couple of fairly major shocks to the global industrial economic system that so many of us rely upon. One could say that we had a near-collapse experience. I thought it might be wise to take a moment, step back, and have a look at the bigger picture. To see where western civilization is at, what’s driving us and what kinds of a future we might want to plan for. How does the pandemic fit with other threats to stability. To help me with this, ...
Cortes Currents - Collapse Now, Avoid The Rush
July 25, 2020 20:51 - 36.4 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - This year has seen a couple of fairly major shocks to the global industrial economic system that so many of us rely upon. One could say that we had a near-collapse experience. I thought it might be wise to take a moment, step back, and have a look at the bigger picture. To see where western civilization is at, what’s driving us and what kinds of a future we might want to plan for. How does the pandemic fit with other threats to stability. To help me with this, ...
Listening In: Extra Virginity
July 20, 2020 20:05 - 29.8 MBFrancesca Gesualdi/Listening In - "For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality." "But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an explosive article in The New Yorker, Tom Mu...
Folk U - Coexisting With Bears on Cortes Island
July 18, 2020 01:28 - 44 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk u Fridays - Bear sighting have been on the rise in BC over the last couple of years, more than doubling in many communities. BC is bear country. And Cortes is no exception. Bears have regularly swam over to feed on the fruits of abandoned orchards and spend some time on the island. What we can learn about coexisting with bears on Cortes Island an interview with Sabina Mense Leader.