Government funds new community radio station

PETIT-DE-GRAT, NS - The federal government has thrown its support behind a French-language minority community radio station called Cooperative Radio Richmond, located in Petit-de-Grat, Nova Scotia, population 454. The $223,734 in funding was announced Thursday by Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore, and Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway Peter MacKay, under the Community Life component of the Department of Canadian Heritage's Development of Official-Language Communities Program. This program aims to foster projects that improve the environment for official-language minority communities. "The Cooperative Radio Richmond truly appreciates this funding from the Government of...