Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - While the largest slide in human memory occurred only months ago, local historian Judith Williams says Bute Inlet lets loose all the time. In the podcast above she talks about a slide in the 1860s, another in the 70's and how debris from the most recent slide appears to have reached Cortes Island.

Williams has a special connection to Bute Inlet, which was the setting of her most recent book.

She also talks about its importance as a source of what some experts are already calling the 'oil of the future': water.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - While the largest slide in human memory occurred only months ago, local historian Judith Williams says Bute Inlet lets loose all the time. In the podcast above she talks about a slide in the 1860s, another in the 70's and how debris from the most recent slide appears to have reached Cortes Island.

Williams has a special connection to Bute Inlet, which was the setting of her most recent book.

She also talks about its importance as a source of what some experts are already calling the 'oil of the future': water.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District is sending Cortes Island Regional Director Noba Anderson a letter advising of the SRD Board’s expectations regarding communications between Directors and Regional District staff.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District is sending Cortes Island Regional Director Noba Anderson a letter advising of the SRD Board’s expectations regarding communications between Directors and Regional District staff.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District is sending Cortes Island Regional Director Noba Anderson a letter advising of the SRD Board’s expectations regarding communications between Directors and Regional District staff.

an Mei Xi/ Vancouver Co-op Radio - In a time when many have felt hopeless, Libby Davies is anything but.

The former MP of Vancouver East of 18 years told The PULSE that she believes every group, no matter how marginalized, can “absolutely” make change.

"People know what needs to be done. The hard part is knowing how to do it," says Davies, in the podcast above.

"Libby Davies is one of Canada’s leading advocates for social justice. She was known for her principled yet collegial approach to important but often contentious issues as a community activist, a Vancouver city councillor and, subsequently, a long-serving member of Parliament. Throughout her 18 years in the House of Commons, she provided leadership and continuity during a tumultuous period in our political history. She gave a voice to the voiceless on such issues such as the plight of thalidomide survivors, LGBTQ rights, affordable housing, missing and murdered women, and safe injection sites - Governor General of Canada

She points to many wins for the neighbourhood during her decades as an elected representative, including the successful opening of Insite, North America’s first supervised drug injection site.

Davies said that a tip she would offer advocates is to persevere. Political change is an inherently slow process, said Davies, but a concerted effort over time will yield change.

an Mei Xi/ Vancouver Co-op Radio - In a time when many have felt hopeless, Libby Davies is anything but.

The former MP of Vancouver East of 18 years told The PULSE that she believes every group, no matter how marginalized, can “absolutely” make change.

"People know what needs to be done. The hard part is knowing how to do it," says Davies, in the podcast above.

"Libby Davies is one of Canada’s leading advocates for social justice. She was known for her principled yet collegial approach to important but often contentious issues as a community activist, a Vancouver city councillor and, subsequently, a long-serving member of Parliament. Throughout her 18 years in the House of Commons, she provided leadership and continuity during a tumultuous period in our political history. She gave a voice to the voiceless on such issues such as the plight of thalidomide survivors, LGBTQ rights, affordable housing, missing and murdered women, and safe injection sites - Governor General of Canada

She points to many wins for the neighbourhood during her decades as an elected representative, including the successful opening of Insite, North America’s first supervised drug injection site.

Davies said that a tip she would offer advocates is to persevere. Political change is an inherently slow process, said Davies, but a concerted effort over time will yield change.

an Mei Xi/ Vancouver Co-op Radio - In a time when many have felt hopeless, Libby Davies is anything but.

The former MP of Vancouver East of 18 years told The PULSE that she believes every group, no matter how marginalized, can “absolutely” make change.

"People know what needs to be done. The hard part is knowing how to do it," says Davies, in the podcast above.

"Libby Davies is one of Canada’s leading advocates for social justice. She was known for her principled yet collegial approach to important but often contentious issues as a community activist, a Vancouver city councillor and, subsequently, a long-serving member of Parliament. Throughout her 18 years in the House of Commons, she provided leadership and continuity during a tumultuous period in our political history. She gave a voice to the voiceless on such issues such as the plight of thalidomide survivors, LGBTQ rights, affordable housing, missing and murdered women, and safe injection sites - Governor General of Canada

She points to many wins for the neighbourhood during her decades as an elected representative, including the successful opening of Insite, North America’s first supervised drug injection site.

Davies said that a tip she would offer advocates is to persevere. Political change is an inherently slow process, said Davies, but a concerted effort over time will yield change.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - I decided to finish this hour off by redoining the story of a visit I took to a fish farm, four years ago.

Some people will call this program one sided, which is what happens when you interview the people on one side of an argument.

Prior to this, I interviewed Alexandra Morton on three occasions, and also reviewed her movie “Salmon Confidential Documentary.”

On August 23, 2016, Morton joined members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw nation to board Marine Harvest's Midsummer farm in Kingcome Inlet, BC. The video embedded on Cortes currents shows what Morton found after lowered a Go Pro camera into the pens for ten minutes.

“I was stunned. I saw a fish go by with a big tumour on its’ head. This is one fish out of 800,000 in this pen. How many of the others have this? … Are they going to sell that fish for people to eat, or is that dogfood? I would worry about that,” she said.

When I asked Marine Harvest about the incident, they invited me to visit their fish farm in Phillips Arms.

This is one of the Discovery Island locations now scheduled to be phased out by 2022. In the audio above I describe the visit and how it relates to what I saw in Morton's video.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - I decided to finish this hour off by redoining the story of a visit I took to a fish farm, four years ago.

Some people will call this program one sided, which is what happens when you interview the people on one side of an argument.

Prior to this, I interviewed Alexandra Morton on three occasions, and also reviewed her movie “Salmon Confidential Documentary.”

On August 23, 2016, Morton joined members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw nation to board Marine Harvest's Midsummer farm in Kingcome Inlet, BC. The video embedded on Cortes currents shows what Morton found after lowered a Go Pro camera into the pens for ten minutes.

“I was stunned. I saw a fish go by with a big tumour on its’ head. This is one fish out of 800,000 in this pen. How many of the others have this? … Are they going to sell that fish for people to eat, or is that dogfood? I would worry about that,” she said.

When I asked Marine Harvest about the incident, they invited me to visit their fish farm in Phillips Arms.

This is one of the Discovery Island locations now scheduled to be phased out by 2022. In the audio above I describe the visit and how it relates to what I saw in Morton's video.