CHMA

12/05/2023

On Tuesday’s show, we listen in as ECO 360’s Sebastien Hultberg outlines the options for Tantramar as a new industry group takes over blue bag recycling in the province. Plus court updates for Sackville and Dorchester residents charged with drug trafficking, a rash of vehicle thefts in the area, and Tantramar renews CUPE contract with 10.75% raise over four years.

05/12/23

08/10/2023

On Thursday’s Tantramar Report, we talk with Peep and Keep Ecotique co-owner Kara Becker about the shop’s grand opening this weekend during Dorchester’s Sandpiper Festival. Plus in briefs, more highlights from this week’s Tantramar council meeting, including Dorchester water treatment, a new Sackville library roof, and a corporate donation towards two recreation projects.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/09/2023

On Wednesday’s Tantramar Report, we recap some of the decisions made last night by Tantramar councillors at their regular monthly meeting, including approving a $1.2 million development incentive for JN Lafford and an unexpected new $200,000 expense related to the Lorne Street Stormwater Mitigation project. They also took steps towards approving changes to bylaws that would lift the 22-year-old drive thru ban in the zones around Sackville’s two main highway exits.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/08/2023

Town engineer Jon Eppell is recommending that Tantramar expand its contract with Veolia Water Technologies to include the operation of the Dorchester water treatment plant. Tantramar council will consider the proposal at its regular meeting Tuesday tonight at 7pm in Sackville town hall.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/08/2023

Tonight at their regular council meeting, councillors will be asked to vote on approving a nearly $1.2 million dollar grant over ten years for developer John Lafford, for his proposed six-storey apartment building at 131 Main Street.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/08/2023

On Tuesday’s Tantramar Report we look into the former town of Sackville’s Economic Development Incentive Program and how it compares with neighbouring programs in Moncton and Riverview, as Tantramar council considers whether or not to approve a grant for $1.2 million over 10 years at its meeting tonight.

And in briefs: an update from Tantramar about progress with the Lorne Street Stormwater Mitigation Project, a surprise expense for that project, and a council decision tonight on drive-thrus in highway commercial zones.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/04/2023

On Friday’s Tantramar Report, we revisit a conversation with Mt A grad and filmmaker Anas Nannis about his film PEEP: The Great Migration, which is screening next week as part of the Sandpiper Festival in Dorchester. PEEP tells the story of the semi-palmated sandpiper, and its amazing annual journey from the arctic to Brazil, with a weeks long re-fueling stop in the Bay of Fundy. Plus in briefs: Sappyfest is here with a Bridge Street mainstage and some free events elsewhere in town; and this weekend is the 4th annual Backyard BioBlitz citizen science project.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/03/2023

We're very excited to announce that we received funding for a 1-year position to work with us to help develop our community connection. CHMA plays an essential role in local news and independent culture at Mount Allison University and in the Tantramar Area. We have been awarded this funding through the Community Radio Fund of Canada / Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire Radiometres program to develop community programming, help us increase our number of volunteers, extend our presence in the community, and produce content and discussions with community members, while supporting and promoting media literacy.

The successful applicant will engage and inspire current and potential volunteers, develop hyper-local community based content, partner with community organizations to expand our audience and assist in their promotion and outreach, including underrepresented groups, new immigrants and marginalized communities.

https://www.chmafm.com/welcome/work-with-us/

08/03/2023

On Thursday’s Tantramar Report, we hear about the controversy over Canada’s Bill C-19, the Online News Act, and how it will affect community radio stations like CHMA. Alex Freedman, the Executive Director of the Community Radio Fund of Canada speaks to local journalism initiative reporter Pamela Klassen from Smithers, BC station CICK about the Online News Act, and what he thinks needs to happen now that Google and Facebook have started to block news links from being seen by Canadians.

Plus in news briefs: it’s a busy August in Tantramar, and 'no swim' advisories at Parlee Beach and Murray Beach.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/02/2023

Tantramar mayor Andrew Black has been talking about the Chignecto Isthmus a lot lately. In the mayor’s report at last week’s committee of the whole meeting, Black mentioned conversations with his counterparts in the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, with an insurance executive concerned about reducing risk, and with former Sackville councillor and ClimAtlantic director Sabine Dietz, about hosting a discussion on how to protect the corridor between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

CHMA called him up to find out more:

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/02/2023

It was two years and two months after Jamie Leard was shot and killed by his former friends in Upper Cape, New Brunswick, that his mother Doris Leard had the chance to speak in court, and tell one of her son’s killers about the impact of his actions on May 25, 2021. Read more here:

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/02/2023

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On Wednesday’s Tantramar Report, we take a trip to Johnson’s Mills Shorebird Interpretive Centre to celebrate the return of the sandpipers for another season, just in time for the return of Dorchester’s Sandpiper Festival next week. We also hear about the sentencing hearing for one of the killers of Jamie Leard, and the first opportunity for Leard’s mother to make a victim impact statement in court.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

08/01/2023

Like many other local media broadcasters, we anticipate that Meta and Google will be blocking our social media accounts very soon in reaction to Bill C-18.

Please subscribe to our local news and music email newsletters at https://www.chmafm.com/welcome/newsletter-subscription/ and visit www.chmafm.com to keep up-to-date.

and, of course, stay tuned to 106.9 FM in the Tantramar area and www.chmafm.com everywhere else.

08/01/2023

On Tuesday’s Tantramar Report, we talk with Dr. Matthew Betti of Mount Allison, who is surveying New Brunswickers in an effort to narrow down the potential causes of New Brunswick’s mystery brain disease. Betti has recently joined a call for provincial and federal involvement in studies to help determine what’s been harming the over 200 patients currently reporting undiagnosed neurological symptoms.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

07/31/2023

Who's ready for Sappyfest? We are!! Here is what our programmers have been playing and listening to for the past week!

07/27/2023

No members of the public showed up for a public hearing on whether or not to lift the 22-year-old ban on new drive-thrus in the town’s highway commercial zones, and no comments were submitted online or by mail through Plan 360. Even the proponent of the bylaw amendment, Rashaid Tufail, owner of the former Pizza Delight building on Mallard Drive, didn’t make an appearance.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

07/27/2023

On Thursday’s Tantramar Report we talk with politics professor Geoff Martin about the province’s new Statements of Public Interest, and his concerns about how the principles might get used. Plus, the Sackville library needs a new roof, and thanks to a grant from Moneris, local parents will be able to work out while their kids attend activities at the Tantramar Civic Centre.

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB

07/26/2023

On Wednesday’s Tantramar Report, we take a look some of the items that came up at Tantramar council’s committee of the whole meeting Tuesday afternoon, including a development incentive worth nearly $1.2 million for developer John Lafford, bylaw changes to allow drive-thrus in highway commercial zones, and plans to outsource care of the Dorchester water treatment plant. Listen here for more details:

Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB