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The MRC Pontiac is asking residents to participate in a public consultation focused on the Integrated resources management plan (PAIR) which is intended find a consensus on the use of natural resources in the area, with the input of the population. “The whole community must now work together to update and implement TPI development projects […]

In what Québec Public Health officials are calling the start of the 6th wave of the pandemic, the number of Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais employees currently on sick leave due to COVID-19 has significantly increased in just a matter of days. Last week, the CISSS reported having just […]

It’s official, the Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield Country Festival will be returning on June 2-5 for its fifth edition. Organizing the event alongside her husband and local artist Phil Denault, Carole Faubert said they are really happy to see the festival’s return and they’re excited to welcomes festival goers from across the country. “It’s definitely a new start […]

Thursday, March 30, 2022, multiple regional partners involved in sustainable development, will present “Demain, le Film” at the Café Downtown in Fort-Coulonge (535 rue Baume). The entire population is invited to come see and discuss the film created thanks to a collaboration between the CDR Outaouais-Laurentides and the Caisse Desjardins des Rivières de Pontiac. “How […]

The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais is informing the public that as of today, residents 80-years-old and olde, as well as immunocompromised peoples (18-years-old and older) can receive a second booster shot (4th dose). “An interval of between 5 and 6 months is what’s recommended, but a person can […]

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 […]