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On the deadline for submissions of candidates, another councillor in L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet was elected without opposition. Pierre Jolicoeur became the councillor for seat 3 after Mélanie Dumouchel withdrew her candidacy. Jolicoeur joins Aurel Paquette and Louise Grenier, who were also elected by acclamation. The mayor’s seat and council seats 4, 5 and 6 are all contested: […]

Residents of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes will have three choices for mayor after incumbent Winston Sunstrum announced that he would not be seeking re-election. Jeremiah Nephin, Corey Spence and Louis Lair are all vying for the top job. With a professional background in finance, Lair has been a councillor for the past eight years. He said that he […]

Last week the government of Quebec announced that they would be investing $3 billion into the provincial daycare system by 2024/25, with a goal of creating 37,000 new places in the system by 2025. During the press conference with Premier François Legault and Minister for Families Mathieu Lacombe, the Pontiac region recieved some attention. In […]

A power outage hit the municipalities of Shawville, Bristol and Clarendon, as well as the Municipality of Pontiac on Tuesday afternoon. Hydro Quebec community relations agent Alain Paquette said that the outage was caused by a fallen tree. “At the start of the blackout, around 2,600 customers were without electricity,” he wrote in an email […]

Alain Gagnon is hoping that he can build on some of the projects that council has undertaken over the past eight years if he is re-elected on November 7 to a third term. Gagnon was elected by acclamation in 2017. A former police officer, Gagnon said that he got his start in politics in 2013 […]

The two candidates for warden of MRC Pontiac, Jane Toller and Mike McCrank, took part in a filmed discussion hosted by CHIP 101.9 on October 21. McCrank reiterated that the reason he was re-entering municipal politics because he thought the council of mayors was divided and not working together. Toller objected to that characterization, pointing […]

At the last MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting of this term on October 6, council passed a resolution requesting that the provincial authority that oversees firefighter training in the province, L’École nationale des pompiers (ENP), translate two training modules into English. Though the majority of the school’s programs are available in both languages, two […]

The two candidates for mayor in Fort-Coulonge, Christine Francoeur and Gilles Beaulieu, had a 50 minute discussion on the different issues facing the municipality. The pair both ran for the same council seat in the 2017 elections, where Francoeur prevailed with nearly 79% of the vote. She appealed to the pride of the residents of […]

Police officers the MRC Pontiac station are in possession of two firearms which were found with a holster on Hwy. 148 in Mansfield-et-Pontefract on October 17. Anyone who has lost their firearms is asked to contact the Sûreté du Québec at 819-648-2141 to recover them.

One-term Clarendon councillor Ed Walsh is looking to take the top seat in the municipality after outgoing Mayor John Armstrong announced that he wouldn’t seek re-election. He will face off against Gerald Dagg, the former Mayor of Rapides des Joachims who ran against Armstrong in 2017, finishing with roughly 40% of the vote. Walsh has […]