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Education

Coming to Cortes: the Discovery Island’s First Homestay Program

The Discovery Island’s first homestay program will start up on Cortes Island this September. 

Rhonda Teramura, the Homestay Coordinator for International Student Programs within School District 72 explained, “I think it’s amazing that we’re finally able to broaden out wider than the Campbell River core of the city. It’ll be a wonderful experience for our district, our local Campbell River students and for internationals alike to expand and explore  and connect with folks that are out in the Discovery Islands.”

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Quadra Project: Further Sierra Quadra correspondence about Mosaic’s Forest Stewardship plan

Originally published on the Discovery Islander

Mosaic has replied to Sierra Quadra’s critique of its 2022 Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) for TFL 47 on Quadra Island. As we feared, all the attention and time given to studying and responding to this document was mostly a waste of effort. Despite Mosaic’s invitation to receive public input, the FSP is almost totally resistant to changes. 

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Transportation

BC Ferries closer to implementing changes on Campbell River to Quadra Route

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

With summer on the horizon, Quadra and Cortes islanders are keen to see promised changes implemented on BC Ferries’ Campbell River to Quadra Island route, for congestion ease.

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Education

Library strike: No job action today

Editor’s Note: While there were no picket lines on Thursday, as the article below states, they appeared at the Nanaimo Harbourfront branch and Creativity Commons in downtown Nanaimo on Friday.

There will be no job action today in the Vancouver Island Regional Library strike, which began Tuesday. 

A  BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) spokesperson emailed Cortes Currents, “We do not want to be in job action so, in order to minimize impact on communities, we are making plans day-to-day based on what we hear from the mediator and will update the community as far in advance as we can.” 

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Environment

March 12th: A Just Transition Day of Action

350.org, the Council of Canadians, students from Carihi Secondary school and other members of the community will be holding a ‘Just Transition Day of Action’ in front of MP Rachel Blaney’s office in Campbell River, on March 12th.

Similar demonstrations are taking place in 44 cities, towns and villages across Canada, from Victoria to Halifax.

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