How our local government works – Part 4 of 5 from the Feb 9 SRD Board Meeting
As the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) prepares to amend its indebtedness agreement with CityWest, to pay for the installation of high speed internet, Regional Director Jim Abram is concerned that parts of area C are being left out.
Continue reading High speed internet: Are Read, West Thurlow and part of Quadra Island being left out?How our local government works – Part 1 of 5 from the Feb 5 SRD Board Meeting
The proposed budget for 2022 was one of the principle topics at the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) Board Meeting on Wednesday, February 9th. Part of this process involved looking into the finances for 2021. So in the first of a five part series arising from that meeting, Cortes Currents is looking into how the SRD is spending the portion of our tax dollars under their control.
Continue reading Where did Cortes Island’s property tax dollars go in 2021?National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s a landmark moment for an ambitious project to bring rapid internet to a swath of remote communities along the B.C. coast.
The first 50 kilometres of subsea fibre-optic cable was recently laid at the northern reach of the $45.4-million Connected Coast project that will hook up 139 rural remote communities, including 48 Indigenous communities, to high-speed internet.
Continue reading Connectivity gap closing for B.C.’s isolated coastal communitiesCityWest will also be providing phone and TV to Cortes Islanders who choose these services.
Regional Manager Dino Tsakonas told De Clarke, of Cortes Currents, when she was visiting the crew burying fibre optic cable in Squirrel Cove last week. Her report provides a close look at the work, with 20 photographs in the written version.
Continue reading CityWest: Cortes Island’s newest phone, television and internet serviceCortes residents on their travels about the island will have noticed some new roadside sights this January. Several sandwich boards bearing the CityWest logo have appeared in scattered locations, as well as road-work crews with some unusual, specialised heavy equipment.
All this activity is part of the initial phase of the Connected Coast project on Cortes Island.
Continue reading Cortes Island Fibre Project Underway
