French filmmaker Jérémy Mathieu’s award winning documentary ‘Salmon Secrets,’ will be coming to Gorge Hall at 1 PM on Sunday, January 12.
This 40 minute film was produced by Clayoquot Action, whose co-founders Bonny Glambeck and Dan Lewis will be speaking at the screening.
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By Max Thaysen and the Cortes Island Climate Action Network
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself to the future – and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
We’ve got the receipts, we just need to break the door down (aka build and wield power).
Continue reading Turning Down the Heat Part 3: It’s Time to Kick Some Ass (ie – Mobilize People Power)Starting on Saturday, January 11th, Dance Temple Cortes will be held every two weeks in Manson’s Hall.
“Everyone has an excuse not to dance. In Gabriel Roth’s book, Sweat Your Prayers, there’s a two page list or maybe a three page list of all the reasons. That’s great, if that’s your choice, but there’s something to be said for getting over the resistance because there’s no wrong way to dance. There’s no wrong way to move. It’s incredibly freeing to be in a space where you can dance in all your goofiness, offbeat, rolling around, whatever works for you and just engage with your body in a healthy way,” explained Connie Quail.
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There has been a flurry of media stories about the dangers of eating raw oysters lately, but Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) confirmed that there have been no problems with Cortes Island grown oysters. (And there have been no problems anywhere with cooked oysters.) Only one of the 8 emergency closures DF0 listed, in response to Cortes Currents request, is in the Discovery Islands. A DFO notice from December 23 states, “The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has received reports of illness linked to BC Aquaculture Tenure Landfile #1402974” in the Bold Island-Crescent Channel area between Quadra and Read Islands. The other 7 oyster closures pertained to 42 ‘Landfiles’ in the Baynes Sound area across from Denman Island.
Mo Qutob, Communications Advisor with Fisheries & Oceans Canada, emailed that all of the closures he listed were in force as of December 31, 2024.
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On December 20, 2024, host Greg Osoba was joined by guitarist Michael Keith to chat about all things guitar: theory, terminology, sounds, effects, and practice. This is a fun, demonstrative interview for both total beginners and advanced players looking for some new inspiration.
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