Mark Vonesch on FolkU Radio! Tune into 89.5fm CKTZ to hear a pre-summer brief from our regional director. Find out what’s new, upcoming, exciting, and challenging at the SRD and on Cortes.
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The 2026 Cortes Island Beach Clean-up is underway. Helen Hall, Executive Director of the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI), explained:
“The campaign will start on May 1st and run until the end of the month. We’re working in partnership with Comox Strathcona Waste Management and Klahoose Aquaculture. We will be placing large ‘super sacks’ at seven different locations around the island:
Dr Teresa Ryan is a Tsimshian woman who combines the ancestral knowledge of her people with the cutting edge research coming out of the Mother Tree Project. Her association with Dr Suzanne Simard began when she applied for a postdoctoral fellowship in what is now UBC’s faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship. Simard was one of her four instructors and suggested, “We have to talk. I read your dissertation.”
Ryan responded, “You did what?”
Reflecting back on that today, she added, “Who would do that? It’s 435 pages, but what she found was that I demonstrated how our Indigenous social institutions are connected to our heterogeneous mosaic landscapes.”
Continue reading Dr Teresa Ryan: How the Forest Protects us and why we should preserve itNawel Izard is the host of a popular radio program on Cortes Community Radio and the head of the Polaris Law Collective, whose head office is in Campbell River. She was born in Algeria, but lived almost her entire life in Canada. In this morning’s interview Nawel describes her motivations and something of her legal practice.
Continue reading Nawel Izard: the lawyer behind the ‘In Session’ radio showLinnaea Farm’s First Plant and Skill Share was on Saturday, April 18. It may be the first on Cortes Island.
Tamara McPhail, who has been at Linnaea farm the past quarter century explained, ”I don’t know if there’s ever been a plant share before on Cortes.”
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