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A special meeting of the MRC council regarding the Connexion Fibre Picanoc project has been abruptly cancelled, with the discussion moved to a later date. The MRC initially sent an email to media shortly before 10 a.m. on March 29, advising of a special meeting on the subject scheduled for the evening of March 30. […]

A car rally fundraiser for the Cooperative du Center de Loisirs des Draveurs will take place this Saturday, April 2. Participants can register starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Center de Loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite, at 33 rue Centre récréatif in Fort-Coulonge. The registration cost is $20 per person. One of the organizers […]

On March 23, the Pontiac Tourism Association held their annual general meeting at the Pine Lodge in Bristol. The meeting featured the launch of the group’s new video called “In It Together”, which features local businesses teaming up to get through the pandemic. The video features local brewery Brauwerk Hoffman and their collaboration with local […]

The Table régionale des organismes communautaires autonomes de l’Outaouais (TROCAO), an umbrella organization that represents more than 100 community organizations in the Outaouais, has decried the amount of money allocated to community groups in Quebec’s recently tabled budget. The group’s Director General Daniel Cayley-Daoust explained that they had been protesting earlier in the year to […]

With Bill 96, the CAQ government’s overhaul of Quebec’s language laws being studied in the National Assembly, CHIP 101.9 spoke with Pontiac Liberal MNA André Fortin about the issue and what he made of some of the recent amendments to the mammoth 200+ article document. Fortin said that the CAQ has been introducing amendments that […]

Pontiac MNA André Fortin spoke with CHIP 101.9 about some of the highlights (and lowlights) of this year’s provincial budget, which was tabled earlier this week. One of the most discussed aspects of the document was the government giving $500 cheques to every Quebecer making less than $100,000 per year, which he said was obvious […]

The Municipality of Pontiac put out a statement on their Facebook page indicating that several of their Town Hall employees had tested positive for COVID. “We wish to inform you that several employees at the Town Hall of the Municipality of Pontiac have contracted the Covid virus,” the March 23 statement reads. “As a result, […]

With the Caisse Desjardins des Rivières de Pontiac annual general meeting approaching on Monday (March 28), CHIP 101.9 spoke with Director General Stéphane Labine about their past year. Labine explained that at the AGM, which will take place virtually at 6:30 p.m., members would be looking over the year’s results as well as voting on […]

Following the announcement of a one day strike for unionized government employees (SAAQ) on March 30, MRC Pontiac has issued a press release announcing that it may cause some service disruptions at the Campbell’s Bay service centre. “The office will remain open, but it is possible for certain transactions, that we will have to reschedule […]

The Downtown Life Committee of Rapides-des-Joachims has a whole host of community events planned for the coming months. Committee member Lucie Rivet Paquette explained that they have three events coming up in April, starting with a free movie night for children on April 1 at 7 p.m. They will be showing the family comedy Clifford […]