Headlines from this weeks SPEC

May 20, 2002

An English radio station for the Gaspe Coast
Gilles Gagne

NEW CARLISLE - The possible emergence of a community-owned English radio station for the Gaspe Coast must not reduce the revenues of SPEC newpaper, according to various members of the Committee for Anglophone Social Action (CASA) who took part in the annual meeting, held on May 11th in New Carlisle. An English radio station based in the Peninsula will need money from publicity in order to survive, but this situation must take into account the fact that the newspaper of the anglophone community also needs advertising money.

Media Forum:
Some leaders of the Gaspe blame themselves for not spreading a positive image of the Gaspe

Gilles Gagne
PABOS MILLS - Some social and economic leaders of the Gaspe blame themselves for not putting out a positive image of the Peninsula, in order counter the so-called negative views of the Gaspesian Patriots.
Gilbert Scantland, director general of the Conseil regional de concertation et de developpement (CRCD) of the Gaspe and Magdalen Islands, made that statement at the Forum on Communication and Information, in Pabos Mills, on May 9th and 10th. Sometimes, people replied to the allegedly negative speeches of the Patriots, he said, but it was not done enough.

The Gaspe Peninsula and Chile will cooperate in forestry, fish farming and tourism
Gilles Gagne

The export club of the Gaspe Peninsula and the Magdalen Islands, namely the Secretariat, la mise en marche Gaspesie-les-ëles, has signed a cooperation agreement with a territory in Chile, the tenth "Region of the Lakes", in order to stimulate economic trade and technology transfers between the two parties.
This agreement was signed on May 9th in Santiago. Secretariat, la mise en marche Director-General Aurele Doucet and President Jean-Francois Gagne, a well-known owner of inns in Perce, were taking part in the economic mission directed by Quebec Premier Bernard Landry in South America. The Secretariat and various firms of the Gaspe have visited Chile a few times since 1999 in order to enhance their export potential.