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A freezing rain warning has been issued by Environment Canada for the Pontiac region. Two to four millimetres of freezing rain is expected for the Outaouais at the late afternoon today, which could make roads, streets, sidewalks and parking lots icy and slippery. Environment Canada suggests that drivers adapt their driving to changing road conditions.

Part of the Outaouais was affected by a major blackout Tuesday afternoon, affecting more than 7,000 residences in the region. According to the Hydro Quebec spokesperson Marie-Annick Gariépy, Hydro-Québec had to cut off electricity to an area in Wakefield to carry out an emergency repair in the transformer. “The transformer was from the seventies, so […]

The annual night celebrating feminism which gathers over 200 persons every year, the 2019 Salon de la Femme will be held on Friday, March 1st at the Pontiac Conference Center. International Women’s Day is on March 8th, and this event is to celebrate it. The main organizer of the event, Claudee Galipeau, gave a first […]

The Centre de formation professionnelle du Pontiac (CFP Pontiac) provided news about their cooking and secretarial-accounting programs, which were scheduled to begin this month. The organizers of the cooking class are hoping to get more registrations before starting the course and regarding the secretarial-accounting course, the start date has been postponed to February 18th, due […]

A study is being conducted in the municipalities of Bristol and Pontiac by researchers at the University of McGill, to assess the relationship between humans and nature entitled ”How people from Bristol and Pontiac feel nature makes their lives better”. The researcher conducting the study, Dalal Hanna, told CHIP in an interview her goal with […]

The Caisse Desjardins des Rivières de Pontiac, which includes the branches in Fort-Coulonge and Chapeau, will have an upgrade this week, modernizing its ATMs. The Caisse’s general manager, Stéphane Labine, gives the details: Stephane clip The change were made today for the Fort-Coulonge branch, and will be made on Thursday for the Chapeau branch. Note […]

The Ski at School program is an initiative designed to encourage high school and elementary students to have fun and play during winter. The ambassador to the Pontiac, Guillaume Harvey explained that the trails may be under developed here in the Pontiac but for a first year, they are getting by very well: The full […]

The first Pontiac MRC Youth Council meeting was yesterday at the MRC in Campbell’s Bay before a majority of mayors of the MRC including the Warden and MMA for Pontiac André Fortin. The young representatives received a pin from each of their respectable Mayor to mark the event. From L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet, Chloé LaSalle, said this is […]

In the last days, a job offer from l’Abattoir Les viandes du Pontiac has raised a lot of questions/comments on social media. The slaughterhouse, in operation for a few weeks, is looking for Muslim employees to certify Halal meat procedures, which is necessary to sell this production on the market. In an interview with CHIP […]

According to David Gillespie, a Isle-aux-Allumettes farmer, the power outages in the upper Pontiac don’t seem to have improved over the last 10 years, as studied and kept statistics by Gillespie during power outages : The interview in French is available here.