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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

  1. No Lineups for Island Nagalis, But Up to Three-Ferry Waits on the Campbell River Run

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    No Lineups for Island Nagalis, But Up to Three-Ferry Waits on the Campbell River Run

    Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - While lineups appear to have virtually disappeared since Island Nagalis took over the BC Ferries Cortes–Quadra run, there are often three-ferry waits at midday for people sailing between Quadra Island and Campbell River.

    5분
  2. The West Coast Pipeline, BC's Prosperity Agreement and Canada aborts its emission targets

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    The West Coast Pipeline, BC's Prosperity Agreement and Canada aborts its emission targets

    Roy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The new West Coast Pipeline will closely follow the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) route. BC has been promised billions of dollars through a new prosperity agreement, and Prime Minister Mark Carney has stepped back from Canada’s emissions targets because they are too divisive. In this morning’s broadcast, two experts provide their insights into these matters. Jennifer Lash is a former senior analyst with Environment and Climate Change Canada and ran as a Liberal candidate in the 2025 election. She endorses the Prime Minister’s actions. Ian Sanderson, a senior analyst in the oil and gas division at the Pembina Institute, explains his reservations.

    24분
  3. Summer 2026 with the Friends of Cortes Island

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    Summer 2026 with the Friends of Cortes Island

    Roy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) is set to run a busy, engaging summer calendar in 2026, beginning with sold-out programming launched Monday, June 28. Early highlights included “Misty Isles” and “The Secret Shelf Exploration,” a guided intertidal snorkel-style visit where participants explore a rich marine environment while learning about local ecosystems. Although that first event is already fully booked, it reflects the organization’s strong community interest in hands-on nature learning. Looking ahead, FOCI’s summer events continue to blend local expertise with conservation-focused education. A “Moss Magic” session on July 4, led by Dan Tucker, introduces the hidden world of mosses, liverworts, and lichens. Later in July, “Gumbooting the Lagoon” returns as a low-tide walk at Manson’s Lagoon, done in partnership with the museum and featuring local history insights from Melanie Boyle. They also aim to try new experiences, including “Moths by Moonlight” (August 15), a moth-trapping event that attracts moths with light traps and allows participants to observe and learn before releasing them unharmed. Beyond events, FOCI’s work in 2026 is equally active on the ground. They recently completed their third annual Big Beach Clean-Up, collecting 2,570 kilograms of garbage through community participation, partnerships with Klahoose Aquaculture and waste management, and sponsorship support. The organization is also collaborating with Cortes Island School on renewable, creative land-based education projects—like willow-based pollinator fencing and the living green willow dragon sculpture. Meanwhile, they maintain and improve regional parks and access points, support habitat restoration with BC Parks (including broom removal on the spit), conduct eelgrass surveys, prepare European green crab trapping with DFO to protect eelgrass and native species, and invite ongoing volunteer and donation support to sustain this breadth of impact.

    10분
  4. Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 3

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    Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 3

    De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - tTanya is also committed to the Women’s Centre’s participation in Truth and Reconciliation on Cortes Island.   The two priorities that we’ve put forward since becoming a nonprofit are creating kind of a mental emotional wellness team agenda, and reconciliation. And that’s a spot where volunteers of any gender could participate and help out. We want to find opportunities to show that we’re devoted to reconciliation, and figure out how can we do that in accessible ways, in ways that involve community more I’m hoping that we can do some indigenous film nights in the fall.  Last January we did a reading challenge, and this is something that we intend to do every winter now — and the challenge is to read a book by an indigenous author. And, you know, that could expand in ways to come in the future. Maybe we’ll make it actually like a book club. Tanya said that the Centre does have some indigenous Access Members and she feels there’s some potential for it to serve as a bridge between the settler and first-nations communities.  Not all of our members arenecessarily here because they’re going through trauma! Women are a lot of the time here because they want the warm space, and their trailer’s not that warm in the winter. Or because we’ve got internet or they can print up colored posters for their, events or offerings that they’re putting out in community, you know? But yeah, we definitely have indigenous members. And I feel that Cortes as a community could do more on the level of reconciliation.  I just think that it could be something that’s more of a working part of our community and something that we do on a more regular basis, and that the settler community should be putting together. Centre

    19분
  5. Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 2

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    Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 2

    De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - This is the second of three broadcasts about the COrtes Island Woomen's Centre

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  6. Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 1 14m44s

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    Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 1 14m44s

    De Clarke? Cortes Currents - Some seven or eight years ago, longtime Cortes residentTanya Henck perceived a need for more support for women on the island struggling with various issues — domestic violence, sexual harassment, housing insecurity, poverty, mental health, social isolation — and launched the idea of a Women’s Resource Centre. Joined by a few other island women, she rented a space in the Mansons Hall building and formed a partnership with North Island Transition Society. In 2019, the Centre opened — just in time for the Covid pandemic. Since then, the Cortes Island Women’s Resource Centre has served island women in many capacities. In an interview with Tanya in late May, we discuss recent organisational changes (the Centre is now a BC Non-Profit Society in its own right), current programming and services, the level of need on the island for those services, the ongoing relationship with North Island Transition, and Tanya’s plans for expanded services and projects in the coming year.

    15분
  7. NameSake_ A filmed Journey towards Recognition, Reconciliation and Place

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    NameSake_ A filmed Journey towards Recognition, Reconciliation and Place

    Roy L Hales /Cortes Currents - The radio version of this story opens with a short clip from the documentary NameSake in which Dr Evan Adams welcomes viewers to Tla-amin territory. Then he adds,  "A lot of people who live here now don't know us. They forget that all of this used to be ours, and that this city is still in our territory."  NameSake will be playing in the House of the Klahoose People, on Cortes Island, at 2 PM on Monday, June 29. It is about the Tla'amin People's connection to the ancestral village site that was taken away from them and renamed Powell River. Then they asked the city to change its name back to  Tiskʷat. The film was screened at Hot Docs in Toronto, the DOXA Festival in Vancouver and will be shown at the Victoria Film Festival this coming July. In this morning's interview we talk to Dr Evan Adams, who just welcomed you to Tla'amin territory, and Executive Producer Claudia Medina.  Claudia joined us during the second half of the interview. She is a qathat based filmmaker and editor, who works through her production company EnMedia. She has directed and edited for APTN and has been involved in this project from the onset.   Dr Evan Adams is a physician, currently serving with the First Nations  Health Authority and National Circle for Indigenous Medical. He's also an actor and one of the two Directors of NameSake. In the film, he guides viewers through history, memory and present conversation.   Cortes Currents: Tell me how NameSake came into being?  Dr Evan Adams: “The conversation between the city of Powell River and the Tla'amin Nation has been growing for a few decades. In fact, we thought we had quite an exemplary relationship. But then, when we started talking about our objections to the name Powell—would the city consider changing their name?—that started a series of meetings that were quite acrimonious.” “We were not ready for that kind of reaction, and we were not ready for that kind of negativity. People were yelling at us. We thought we were talking about a name change, but they were saying things like: ‘There’s no such thing as Indigenous knowledge. Those residential school graves are empty. Survivors are exaggerating.’ And lots of other really racist generalizations—racist rhetoric—that we didn’t know were going to be part of every single meeting. So we just started recording it.”

    22분
  8. Coming Referendum About Cortes Island Youth and Senior Services

    6월 25일

    Coming Referendum About Cortes Island Youth and Senior Services

    Roy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The SRD Board unanimously passed a resolution that Cortes residents will vote on whether to fund the island’s youth and senior organizations at the upcoming October 17, 2026 election. Regional Director Mark Vonesh explained, “There was a little bit of a rush because I realized that, in order to get this onto the referendum—which I think is the fairest way to consult with the community—it needs to go through a process. It goes to the board, a draft bylaw is created, the draft bylaw is reviewed, and then it goes to the Inspector of Municipalities for approval. That comes back to the referendum at the election. The time period for this one was tight. It basically had to happen in the month that I introduced it, but the beauty of it is that we’ve got four months to talk about it.” “I’m going to be holding a public meeting in the Fall, before the election, so we can come together and talk about it, and so I can share information that I have about the services. We’ll also make it available online, so it’s really accessible for people.” “The two new services that passed the board today, unanimously, are about providing funding for programming on Cortes.” “We know that youth and older people on Cortes are important to the future—and the past—of our community. By supporting them, it’s going to make Cortes a better place to be. As a youth worker and someone who’s worked with seniors all over Canada doing nonprofit work, I know the impact that the organizations on Cortes are already having.” “We’re looking at $35,000 for each of the services, which really isn’t a lot of money, but I think it could go a long way toward filling some gaps and strengthening what we’re already doing on Cortes for younger people and older people.”

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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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