We’re excited to announce two new radio hotspots where you can tune into the latest episode of TGM. To the West, we welcome Regina, Saskatchewan; to the East, we welcome Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Our first Nova Scotia partner in the TGM project is CKDU 88.1 FM, Dalhousie University’s volunteer radio station and the only campus-community radio station in Halifax. The station’s 3200 watt transmitter transmits alternative voices, music and news to the Halifax Regional Municipality and beyond 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can now hear the Green Majority on CKDU on Tuesdays from 12-1AM (ADT).

Another provincial first is CJTR 91.3FM, which, in broadcasting out of Regina, is our first community partner in Saskatchewan. The station is operated by the non-profit corporation Radius Communications, which brought the station on-air in 2001; it is also the unofficial campus radio station of the University of Regina. Be sure to tune into CJTR on Thursdays from 9-10AM (CST) to catch our latest episode.

Together, CKDU and CJTR bring to the number of partners in the TGM project to twelve.

This week:

• Jack Gibbons, Chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, presents his group’s assessment of Ontario’s new clean energy legislation, discussing both the good news for the facilitation of renewable energy projects and how the bill is likely to lead to growth in provincial nuclear power generation.
• Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and Council of Canadians Chair Maude Barlow weigh in on efforts to protect Tiny Township’s aquifer, the purest known source of water on the planet, from becoming a garbage dump. Thank you to Danny Leskiw for recording this presentation.
• Listener Kelsey from the Dogwood Initiative writes to encourage listeners to oppose increasing supertanker traffic off the North Coast of British Columbia. More information and “loonie decals” are available here.

The headlines in brief:

• The province of Ontario has introduced legislation to help enable more renewable energy producers in the province, though the legislation does not attach specific funding or regulations to the industry.
• Alberta’s tar sands have been featured in this month’s National Geographic which called the projects “dark satanic mills” and showed readers photos of the sludge covered tailings ponds.
• The Natural Resources minister has refused to apologize after it was discovered that Chalk River nuclear facility had been leaking tritium into the Ottawa River.
• Federal officials anticipate that up to 850, 000 acres of agricultural land will be left idle in California due to drought.
• Scientists are voicing concern that biotechnology companies have restricted academic research on genetically modified crops.
• NASA’s first satellite dedicated specifically to monitoring global carbon dioxide levels plunged into the Antarctic sea shortly after being launched.

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Students at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick will soon be able to tune into TGM. Sackville’s campus and community radio station, CHMA 106.9FM, will broadcast the program on Wednesdays at 3PM, AST.

TGM is hitting the airwaves in Atlantic Canada thanks to Fredericton’s campus and community station, CHSR 97.9FM, and St. John’s campus campus and community station, CFMH 107.3FM.

CHSR is a community station in Fredericton, New Brunswick, with a radiated power of 250 watts. CHSR boasts the largest music library of a Canadian radio station east of Montreal and is one of the oldest stations in Atlantic Canada, dating back to 1950. Its volunteers are drawn from the University of New Brunswick, St. Thomas University and the Fredricton community at large. It is broadcasting TGM on Mondays at 3pm.

CFMH is a relatively young station that has been broadcasting out of broadcasts out of Saint John, New Brunswick since 2001. Its volunteers are primarily drawn from the University of New Brunswick’s St John campus. It has recently moved to its new frequency of 107.3 MHz. CHSR and CFMH are the seventh and eighth stations to join the TGM project and we’re very pleased to be working with them.

The TGM project has been joined by Winnipeg Campus / Community Radio (CKUW 95.9 FM).

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CKUW has been a going concern since the 1960′s and broadcasts from the University of Winnipeg. Their 450 watt signal covers an population base of 700,000 in Manitoba. CKUW is the sixth community station to join the TGM project.

You can now tune into the program in the Winnipeg area on 95.9 FM on alternating Saturdays from 8-9am EST.