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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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.
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 - 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Cortes Health Centre Staff Speaks Out About COVID-19
March 21, 2020 19:06 - 24.3 MBCortes Health Centre Staff, Tahmeena Ali, MD—visiting doctor—and Isabelle Laplante, RN—new staff nurse— speak out about all anyone is talking about, COVID-19, and what it means for the people of Cortes Island.
Interview with Mark Lombard
March 15, 2020 23:52 - 67.9 MBOn Saturday March 14th, the monthly Cortes Currents news/talk show featured an interview with Mark Lombard, contract manager for the Cortes Forestry General Partnership. This podcast explores what the “Community Forest” is, and how it works. Did you know that CFGP’s license now covers far more hectares of Cortes Island than the MMB/IT/Mosaic license? This and many other interesting details are discussed in our program (such as what “MMB” and “IT” mean).
It Takes A Community To Raise A Village
March 05, 2020 14:35 - 25.8 MB“It takes a community to raise a village,” it says on the Cortes Community Housing website (at cortescommunityhousing.org This has clearly been the case on Cortes Island with two upcoming housing initiatives undergone by the Housing Committee of the Cortes Island Seniors Society.
A legal observation
March 04, 2020 20:18 - 35.9 MBOn the morning of Friday, February 7th, the RCMP moved in to raid the second of four camps along the gravel road that passes through the Wet'suwet'en Nation, Gidimt'en Territory. The RCMP were enforcing a court injunction that prohibited anyone from blocking access to anyone working on the Coastal GasLink pipeline. I was a legal observer for that raid – a collector of information for the purposes of legal defense.
2019 Christmas Bird Count
February 18, 2020 23:48 - 25.1 MBWhen you talk about Cortes Island’s population, most of us think of humans but there is an even larger avian population. The Cortes museum has been taking an annual Christmas Bird Count since 2001. There were 38 participants this year. Most were in five groups, but there were also a number of people who reported birds visiting feeders, or parts of the island not on the established routes.
Feb 15, 2020, Governance meeting at Mansons Hall
February 16, 2020 23:38 - 161 MBAbout forty Cortes Islanders attended a public meeting on February 15th at Manson's Hall, to discuss local governance models and alternatives.
Julie Glaspy
February 15, 2020 16:28 - 25.1 MB"Convincing a stone to be something else is no small task; it's heavy, it's dusty, it's dirty and it's my labor of love", says stone sculptor Julie Glaspy from Quadra Island. Chosen to represent Canada at the 2020 International symposium in Nepal, Julie talks to CKTZ about her journey in shaping stone to be something else: a granite heart two feet tall, or a small rose quatrz necklace, or her beautiful bowls.
From CIBATA To CCEDA: Changing Visions Of Development
February 10, 2020 06:16 - 64.5 MBOn February 8th 2020, Cortes Currents was pleased to welcome Adam McKenty of CCEDA as the first guest on our new live talk show component. CCEDA (Cortes Community Economic Development Association) is the new name for the organisation formerly known as CIBATA (Cortes Island Business and Tourism Association). Its 6-member board includes three members from prior CIBATA boards.
Town Meeting
February 01, 2020 00:39 - 26.8 MBRecent events have shown that the Regional District system does not always work well in a remote island like Cortes. Some whisper it’s time for Cortexit. Our Regional Director says we should work within the existing structure. It would be very expensive for a community this small to go it alone. She added,0:57 “A minority of very active voices has been very effective in undermining my credibility at the Regional District and yet if what I brought to the District was backed by a community cou...
A Vision For Cortes Island's Future
December 10, 2019 00:56 - 22.3 MBBy the time you hear this, everyone on Cortes Island will have received a newsletter from their Regional Director. I found it left me with more questions than answers. So I asked Noba Anderson to explain her vision for Cortes Island’s future.
Cortes Cat Rescue
December 03, 2019 19:26 - 18.3 MBAccording to the definition at neighborhoodcats.org, “A "feral" cat is unsocialized and tends to be fearful of people and keep a distance.” That may once have been true of the sixteen cats Samantha Statton is currently looking after but, speaking as a former cat owner, a few of these are among the friendliest cats I have seen. It was hard to take a picture because they were constantly sniffing my lens, or trying to smooch, and one adorable youngster liked to jump up onto my shoulder for a nuz...
Augmented Home Support
December 02, 2019 23:06 - 7.07 MBIn October, Cortes Island’s Augmented Home Support (AHS) program was looking at the very real possibility that they may have to shut down. They had enough funding to continue until the end of the year, after which they could not pay their part time employees. Some of you may have read their appeal in the Cortes Community Health Association (CCHA) Newsletter and made a donation. The immediate concern is over, but it prompted me to reach out to the Augmented Home Support program’s organizer, Ro...
The Crises in Our Forests
November 27, 2019 21:23 - 43.2 MBOn Monday, November 25, 2019, the forest management company Mosaic began shutting down its Vancouver Island harvesting operations because of “very challenging pricing and market conditions.” Approximately 2,000 people - contractors, union and non union workers, are being let go “of ahead of the usual winter shutdown.” Mosaic plans “to resume harvesting when the market outlook improves,” but some see this as the symptom of a much larger industry problem. That same day, Sierra Club BC and the W...
Reality 102 with Rex Weyler
November 23, 2019 15:51 - 51.7 MBReality 102 with Rex Weyler was the conclusion of a two part series at Cortes Island’s Folk University. This session was recorded and broadcast over Cortes Radio in the regular Cortes Currents slot on November 13, 2019. Rex asks what are realistic responses to the problem of overshoot.
Reality 101 With Rex Weyler
November 23, 2019 14:12 - 73.7 MBReality 101 with Rex Weyler was one of the lunchtime lectures at Cortes Island's Folk University. This session was recorded and broadcast over Cortes Radio in the regular Cortes Currents slot on November 6, 2019. The theme is overshoot, and what this means to humanity's future. Rex also writes about in the article below. The podcast is Rex's Folk U presentation.
Rex Weyler
June 02, 2019 16:51 - 6.51 MBRex Weyler presented Reading Between the Headlines, how to get more truth out of today’s media. as part of Folk U Fridays.
Cortes Currents - Speaking Our Language
April 01, 2019 00:49 - 16.2 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - I probably first heard his Klahoose language program sometime between 2010 and 2013. We were already on Cortes and the radio was always tuned to CKTZ. By the time you hear this, he will have returned home from another teaching venue. Norm Harry was the eldest speaker for the ɬəʔamɛn, or Klahoose, Nation. The ɬəʔamɛn and three other Northern Coast Salish nations recently came together for an event called Speaking Our Language.
Deep Roots - The Klahoose Arborglyph
July 20, 2018 14:34 - 20.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Deep Roots - British Columbia is known for its totem poles. Examples of a less known artwork have surfaced in more recent years. Aborglyphs are carved into living trees. One was discovered a few years ago, two hundred kilometres north of Vancouver in the midst of a clearcut in Toba Inlet. The Klahoose Arborglyh has been moved to the band’s multipurpose building in Squirrel Cove, Cortes Island. Deep Roots story producer Roy L Hales interviewed Michelle Robinson and Ken Hanuse, fro...
Deep Roots - The Trails
July 07, 2018 01:48 - 15.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Deep Roots - Michelle Robinson and Ken Hanuse, from the Klahoose First Nation, and local historian Judith Williams about the pre-contact trail believed to have connected Toba Inlet and the Upper Squamish Valley
Deep Roots - Awakening The Canoes
June 24, 2018 20:48 - 18.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Deep Roots - What was the role of the canoe in pre-contact indigenous culture? What caused its decline? And how are canoe journeys finding their way back to Klahoose and her sister nations? In this story, Deep Roots story producer Roy Hales outlines the Klahoose Tribal Journey.
Deep Roots - Where Have All the Salmon Gone
March 04, 2018 20:28 - 36.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Deep Roots - An episode of CKTZ 89.5 FM's Deep Roots series: Fishing was once a cornerstone of British Columbia's economy, but the runs appear to be declining - where Have All the Salmon Gone? An inquiry which took place in the middle of one of the biggest chum salmon runs of recent history!