Cortes Currents
1,471 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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CKTZ News - 2018 Christmas Market Season
June 16, 2020 16:12 - 2.24 MBRoy L Hales/CKTZ News - Cortes Island's 2018 Christmas Market Season kicked off at Gorge Hall on Saturday December 1, 2018. There were between 80 and 100 people at any given moment, but it is hard to get an aggregate number because this is also a social event where people go visit and enjoy the food.
2018 Christmas Market Season
June 16, 2020 16:12Roy L Hales/CKTZ news - Cortes Island's 2018 Christmas Market Season kicked off at Gorge Hall on Saturday December 1, 2018. There were between 80 and 100 people at any given moment, but it is hard to get an aggregate number because this is also a social event where people go visit and enjoy the food.
Cortes Meetings - All Things Fire
June 14, 2020 19:55 - 80.8 MBNoba Anderson/ Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - The June 9, 2020, Cortes Virtual Community Meeting dealt with all things fire, The image is "Wind fire" by Robert Couse-Baker via Flickr (CC By SA, 2.0 License)
Lessons From the Bees
June 11, 2020 13:51 - 24.9 MBTara Warkentin/Cortes Currents - In this episode of Cortes Currents, I set out to learn what threats Cortes Island’s bees face. I speak to Sharon Figueira, an aspiring beekeeper, about the most ethical way of getting bees on Cortes. I seek out the advice of Tony Clark, to hear what he’s learned in his twenty-plus years of beekeeping on the island. We also delve deep into the world of fungi with Paul Stamets and find a surprising source of hope for our bees. Here are the four lessons I’ve lear...
Cortes Currents - Shellfish Show
June 06, 2020 15:37 - 31.9 MBMax Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - The folks of Cortes Island are hearing the call. Many people who previously had gardens are expanding them. People who haven't had gardens before are starting one up. But what about the other food groups? What about the critical brain-building inflammation fighting fats, and muscle building protein? Perhaps we will be saved by the humble Cortes Island shellfish farmer.
Shellfish Show
June 06, 2020 15:37Max Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - The folks of Cortes Island are hearing the call. Many people who previously had gardens are expanding them. People who haven't had gardens before are starting one up. But what about the other food groups? What about the critical brain-building inflammation fighting fats, and muscle building protein? Perhaps we will be saved by the humble Cortes Island shellfish farmer.
Listening In - Land Of Lost Borders
June 06, 2020 13:00 - 39.1 MBFrancesca Gesualdi/Listening In - Reading from Kate Harris' book Lands of Lost Borders
LIstening In - Ghost Sea
June 05, 2020 21:01 - 41.7 MBFrancesca Gesualdi/Listening In - a reading from Ghost Sea: A spellbinding tale of the sea, love, murder, and mysticism. At the turn of the century, a Kwakiutl warrior from British Columbia's wild northern islands raids an artifact collector's yacht to reclaim stolen sacred masks. He takes the collector's wife, Kate, as hostage on his 200-mile canoe voyage home. The collector hires Dugger, a coastal trader living on the edges of the law, to give chase in his ketch with the collector as passen...
Folk U - Forest Therapy
June 02, 2020 01:24 - 108 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Sobhana Dilani Hippola, certified forest therapy guide, joins host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss forest therapy and its many benefits. This was part of the Nature is Good For You series on CKTZ done in partnership with Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI), Folk University, and the Cortes radio partners Cortes Currents and Cortes Community Radio.
May 26 Community meeting
May 29, 2020 14:27Noba Anderson/ Cortes Virtual COmmunity Meeting - The Cortes virtual community meeting of May 26, 2020. Adam McKenty and Loni Taylor explain some of the Cortes Community Economic Development Association's ideas.
Community Meetings - About the Cortes Community Economic Development Association
May 29, 2020 14:27 - 86.8 MBNoba Anderson/ Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - The Cortes virtual community meeting of May 26, 2020. Adam McKenty and Loni Taylor explain some of the Cortes Community Economic Development Association's ideas.
Jesse Recalma Visits Cortes Island School
May 28, 2020 18:42Odette Auger/Cortes Currents - Jessie Recalma, Qualicum First Nation, is a self-taught contemporary Coast Salish artist. Cortes Island School Parent Advisory Committee fundraises every year for an Arts/Music program. I offered to help coordinate artist visits, and as an Indigenous person and artist, wanted very much to see this happening. We were grateful to hear Jessie was willing to drive from Qualicum Beach for an artist talk series; meaning he was sharing a 14 hour day with us- leaving a...
Cortes Currents - Jesse Recalma Visits Cortes Island School
May 28, 2020 18:42 - 38.9 MBOdette Auger/Cortes Currents - Jessie Recalma, Qualicum First Nation, is a self-taught contemporary Coast Salish artist. Cortes Island School Parent Advisory Committee fundraises every year for an Arts/Music program. I offered to help coordinate artist visits, and as an Indigenous person and artist, wanted very much to see this happening. We were grateful to hear Jessie was willing to drive from Qualicum Beach for an artist talk series; meaning he was sharing a 14 hour day with us- leaving a...
Folk U - Being in Nature Is Good For Us
May 28, 2020 17:52 - 108 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Most of us intuitive understand that being in nature is good for us. On Friday May 22 Helen Hall joined Manda Aufochs Gillespie on Folk University’s Friday Folk U Talk Show on CKTZ 89.5 FM to explain just how true this is according to the research.
Cortes Currents - Species at Risk
May 22, 2020 23:01 - 23.8 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Helen Hall has been the Friends of Cortes Island’s (FOCI) Executive Director for close to five years. Autumn Barret Morgan came to FOCI as a summer student and continues on as the volunteer Conservation Assistant. In this morning’s program they talk about species at risk on Cortes Island.
Species at Risk
May 22, 2020 23:01Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Helen Hall has been the Friends of Cortes Island’s (FOCI) Executive Director for close to five years. Autumn Barret Morgan came to FOCI as a summer student and continues on as the volunteer Conservation Assistant. In this morning’s program they talk about species at risk on Cortes Island.
Community Meetings - Family Support & Folk U
May 21, 2020 18:59 - 57.3 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - After hearing a number of concerns about the effects that COVID related NOba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - isolation is having on youth, Desta Beattie contacted between 80% and 90% of the Cortes Island families with teenagers to see how they are coping. Her quiet, unassuming manner is almost the opposite of Maunda Aufochs Gillespie, whose bubbling enthusiasm is displayed in constant movement and ever changing facial expressions. ...
Folk U - Species at Risk
May 19, 2020 00:11 - 110 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Interviewed Autumn Willow a citizen scientist with Friends of Cortes Island (Foci), about how we can support species at risk on Cortes Island.
FOCI: Species at Risk
May 19, 2020 00:11Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Interviewed Autumn Willow a citizen scientist with Friends of Cortes Island (Foci), about how we can support species at risk on Cortes Island.
Linda Solomon Wood
May 15, 2020 00:02Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Many of you probably know Linda Solomon Wood as the Editor-in-Chief of the NATIONAL OBSERVER, but the award winning investigative journalist lived on Cortes Island for five years after 9/11. Her brother, Joel Solomon, was the Chairman of the Board at Hollyhock for a quarter of a century. While she currently lives in Vancouver, Linda returns every summer. I recently had a chance to interview her about her life and why, as the editor of a national publication, she ...
Cortes Currents - Linda Solomon Wood's Cortes Connection
May 15, 2020 00:02 - 25.7 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Many of you probably know Linda Solomon Wood as the Editor-in-Chief of the NATIONAL OBSERVER, but the award winning investigative journalist lived on Cortes Island for five years after 9/11. Her brother, Joel Solomon, was the Chairman of the Board at Hollyhock for a quarter of a century. While she currently lives in Vancouver, Linda returns every summer. I recently had a chance to interview her about her life and why, as the editor of a national publication, she ...
Cortes Virtual COmmunity Meeting for May 12, 2020
May 13, 2020 18:47Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - Max Thaysen, President of FOCI, explained the Friends of Cortes Island's bigger vision and Greenpeace founder Rex Weyler gave a reading lists of ecological books.
Community Meetings - FOCI's Deeper Vision
May 13, 2020 18:47 - 83.1 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - On May 12, 2020 Max Thaysen, President of FOCI, explained the Friends of Cortes Island's bigger vision and Greenpeace founder Rex Weyler gave a reading lists of ecological books.
Folk U - Making Herbal Medicine
May 12, 2020 01:20 - 108 MBManda AUfochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Yulia Kochubievsky, herbalist and founder of Made by Yulia (madebyyulia.ca) talked about medicine 101 - keeping it simple: how to make herbal medicine in your own kitchen with locally abundant and common plants
Linnaea Farm Food Security Guild
May 07, 2020 22:18Tara Warkentin/Cortes Currents - Linnaea Farm’s just launched a new initiative – the Linnaea Farm Food Security Guild. The guild offers farm produce, as well as seasonal products such as beef, pesto, and apple juice. It will also host farming and preserving workshops. Members pay a $40 membership fee, and can then top-up their account according to their budget.
Cortes Currents - Linnaea Farm Food Security Guild
May 07, 2020 22:18 - 38.6 MBTara Warkentin/Cortes Currents - Linnaea Farm’s just launched a new initiative – the Linnaea Farm Food Security Guild. The guild offers farm produce, as well as seasonal products such as beef, pesto, and apple juice. It will also host farming and preserving workshops. Members pay a $40 membership fee, and can then top-up their account according to their budget.
Cortes Virtual Community Meeting for May 5, 2020
May 06, 2020 15:54Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting for May 5, 2020
Community Meetings - Developing Food Security
May 06, 2020 15:54 - 84.8 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - At the May 5, 2020 meeting Loni Taylor, a Directors of the Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA, and Tamara McPhail, Executive Director of Linnaea Farm, talked about developing Cortes Island's food security.
Folk U - Early Birds
May 06, 2020 15:30 - 110 MBWe’re delighted to be hosting our very own Dawn Chorus and numerous other Cortes bird songs on CKTZ with local twitcher Corry Dow. Join us to hear Cortes birds and listen while Corry describes who to listen out for and how to tell your towhees from your flickers. Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Helen Hall, from FOCI, introduced the Nature is Good for You Series and talks about ways to stay engaged with nature on Cortes right now and Jane from the Cortes Island Museum and Archives ...
Folk U - Mike Moore Talks About The Waters Around Cortes
May 02, 2020 18:39 - 108 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - Mike Moore obviously has an intense passion for the ocean and for the waters around Cortes Island in particular. He has been working on the water or under it for more than 40 years, as a commercial halibut, crab and prawn fisherman, as a diver harvesting sea cucumbers, sea urchins, scallops and the giant pacific octopus, as a Navigation Officer with the Canadian Coast Guard for 11 years and finally, along with Samantha Statton, he was owner/ operator of Misty ...
Cortes Currents - Cortes Island Womens Centre
May 02, 2020 12:44 - 72.1 MBDe Clark/Cortes Currents - On April 15, 2020, I interviewed Tanya Henck, founding member of the first Cortes Island Women’s Centre which opened in January 2019. A combination of diligent sanitization and long microphone cables, plus a newly constructed and never-inhabited space, enabled us to set up for Covid-19-safe recording.
Cortes Island Womens Centre
May 02, 2020 12:44De Clark/Cortes Currents - On April 15, 2020, I interviewed Tanya Henck, founding member of the first Cortes Island Women’s Centre which opened in January 2019. A combination of diligent sanitization and long microphone cables, plus a newly constructed and never-inhabited space, enabled us to set up for Covid-19-safe recording.
Community Meetings - Vacation Rentals, Systems Navigations & More
April 29, 2020 19:02 - 55.9 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - More than 100 Cortes residents will most likely listen to, or read about, last night’s virtual meeting. Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - While fewer are logging on to the ZOOM call or reading these accounts in Cortes Currents, the number of people listening to the podcasts has doubled, growing from 21 to 43 since these meetings went public. Similar numbers most likely listened to the radio broadcast or will read Director Anders...
April 28 Cortes Virtual Community Meeting
April 29, 2020 19:02Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - More than 100 Cortes residents will most likely listen to, or read about, last night’s virtual meeting. While fewer are logging on to the ZOOM call or reading these accounts in Cortes Currents, the number of people listening to the podcasts has doubled, growing from 21 to 43 since these meetings went public. Similar numbers most likely listened to the radio broadcast or will read Director Anderson’s report in the Tideline. The principal topics ...
Fourth Cortes Virtual Conference
April 25, 2020 21:57Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - The main topics at the fourth Cortes Virtual Conference were housing and employing people on priority community initiatives. The meeting started fourteen minutes late, but (thanks to Ayton Novak) with a polish that was not present in previous meetings. The proceedings started with a series of community updates.
Community Meetings - Vacation Rentals, Food Bank, Volunteering & Status Updates
April 25, 2020 21:57 - 69 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - The main topics at the fourth Cortes Virtual Conference were housing, the food bank and employing people on priority community initiatives. The meeting started fourteen minutes late, but (thanks to Ayton Novak) with a polish that was not present in previous meetings. The proceedings started with a series of community updates.
Cortes Currents - Advice From A Dutch Doctor
April 25, 2020 00:34 - 18 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Cortes Currents - As the COVID-19 global pandemic unfolds our world has become shrunk by fear and limited travel and worries over loved ones and livelihoods. But as the initial fears subside and it becomes clear that it may take a very very long time for the world to return to a more familiar pace, countries that have taken other paths come more into focus. Much in the news are places like Sweden—which did not close primary schools or enforce strict social distance—an...
Advice From A Dutch Doctor
April 25, 2020 00:34As the COVID-19 global pandemic unfolds our world has become shrunk by fear and limited travel and worries over loved ones and livelihoods. But as the initial fears subside and it becomes clear that it may take a very very long time for the world to return to a more familiar pace, countries that have taken other paths come more into focus. Much in the news are places like Sweden—which did not close primary schools or enforce strict social distance—another is Denmark that has already sent its ...
Cortes Currents - Food Security
April 24, 2020 23:44 - 30.2 MBTara Warkentin/Cortes Currents - Loni Taylor is a member of the CCEDA – the Cortes Community Development Association. The CCEDA is working on initiatives to improve local food security. They are informed by a recent survey, which addressed community needs and desires. Respondents were eager to grow more food, but identified a need for permanent growing space. “[Many] people that have the knowledge and the desire to grow their own food don't have sustainable year round housing on Cortes, and t...
Food Security
April 24, 2020 23:44Tara Warkentin/Cortes Currents - Loni Taylor is a member of the CCEDA – the Cortes Community Development Association. The CCEDA is working on initiatives to improve local food security. They are informed by a recent survey, which addressed community needs and desires. Respondents were eager to grow more food, but identified a need for permanent growing space. “[Many] people that have the knowledge and the desire to grow their own food don't have sustainable year round housing on Cortes, and t...
Folk U - Nervous System 101 & Gardening Tips
April 23, 2020 14:18 - 109 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - On the April 17th Folk U Friday Gardening tips were provided by Billie Taylor and were focused largely on water conversation and included a call out to local potters to perhaps make and sell an ancient water conservation pot called an olla. Check out these photos of some I found online. Let us know if you try making your own or if you want to make some for sale! The main feature on April 17th was Hayley Newell, RTC who came to the studio to discuss t...
the pandemics effects on frontline workers - the stores
April 19, 2020 14:32Max Thaysen/Cortes Currents - In this episode, we get a deep dive from Eric Hargrave, manager at the Cortes Natural Food Cooperative, and Bill Dougan, manager at the Gorge Harbour Marina Resort General Store. These are two fellows who run grocery stores and have given a lot of thought to the modern food chain. They present their insights with wit and charm. Together we explored the impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on their lives and their businesses. I was especially curious abou...
Cortes Currents - the Pandemics Effects on Frontline Workers - the Stores
April 19, 2020 14:32 - 25.9 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - In this episode, we get a deep dive from Eric Hargrave, manager at the Cortes Natural Food Cooperative, and Bill Dougan, manager at the Gorge Harbour Marina Resort General Store. These are two fellows who run grocery stores and have given a lot of thought to the modern food chain. They present their insights with wit and charm. Together we explored the impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on their lives and their businesses. I was especially curious abou...
Community Meetings - 3rd virtual meeting
April 16, 2020 22:57 - 54 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - At the third meeting: Vacation Rentals; anybody who has a worsening cough or significant symptoms in a rural or remote community now qualifies for COVID 19 testing; Well being during a time of isolation; possible self distancing gatherings
Folk u: Resilience on Cortes Island
April 16, 2020 16:23 - 107 MBFolk U Friday for April 3, 2020: Resilience on Cortes Island 101: Food resilience and storage, energy systems, and much more! with Mark Lombard and Eli McKenty
Cortes Currents - Coming Home From Africa
April 09, 2020 23:35 - 26.5 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - A group of 23 Cortes residents just returned from there. They decided to travel this year because the tour company owned by Chris Hartwick’s parents, is going out of business. The spread of COVID 19 had not prompted a global reaction. Nobody anticipated there would be any complications coming home from Africa.
Community Meetings - April 7th Meeting
April 09, 2020 12:07 - 51.1 MBNoba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - Audio from Cortes Island’s Second Virtual Townhall Meeting was broadcast over Cortes Radio, CKTZ, 89.5 FM.
Cortes Currents - Anne & Sam: Market Farmers On Cortes Island
April 03, 2020 13:40 - 58.9 MBDe Clarke/Cortes Currents - Anne and Sam run Big Fir Farm, a small market farm; it’s their primary livelihood, and they sell fresh produce at the Friday Market and through the Co-op. In this interview, I ask them what it’s like being a small market farmer, producing organic local food for a living. How hard is the work? How many hours a week? What kind of crops have they found successful? What kind of planning and logistics do they practise? What advice would they give to other people ...
Community Meetings - March 31 Meeting
April 02, 2020 23:17 - 74.9 MBMore people participated. At its peak, seventy listeners connected to the conference by computer or phone and an unknown number listened to the radio broadcast. Yet Cortes Island’s first virtual town hall meeting was essentially a continuation of the recent online conferences Regional Director Noba Anderson has been having with local businesses and organizations.
Cortes Currents - the lessons of a virus
March 21, 2020 21:33 - 45.7 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - An interview in which Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler states his belief that the underlying condition of COVID 19 is Overshoot.