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In a vote held yesterday afternoon (October 27), the employees of MRC Pontiac overwhelmingly rejected the agreement in principle with the MRC, announced earlier this week by their union, the Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec (SFPQ). Negotiations for the new five-year collective agreement come after the employee’s previous contract expired on […]

This past Saturday, Xavier Lusignan climbed to the top of the podium at the Junior Pan-American Weightlifting Championships in Lima Peru, taking gold in the 96kg category. He took gold in overall weight lifted and in the clean and jerk, as well as a silver in the snatch. Back in Canada this week, he explained […]

Yesterday, public notice of keeping of a register was published by the Municipality of Mansfield-et-Pontefract, in order to allow an integrated project, which grants to promoters such as those behind the Gorges de la Coulonge project, to build several buildings on the same land, without dividing it. According to information obtained by CHIP 101.9, 34 […]

MRC Pontiac has finally released human resources data requested by CHIP 101.9 in August. The request for data was acknowledged on August 8. Clerk Travis Ladouceur, acting on behalf of Director General Bernard Roy, denied the request on August 23, stating the following: “The MRC does not compile leave data for employees. This data, which […]

The union representing employees at MRC Pontiac (the Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec or SFPQ) has announced that they reached an agreement in principle with the MRC on October 13. The employees will be voting on this agreement today (October 27) at 4 p.m. During the negotiations, issues such as remote […]

CHIP 101.9 spoke with Thorne Mayor Karen Kelly this morning (October 26) to discuss some of the goings on in the Ladysmith area. At the previous MRC council of mayors meeting, Thorne’s pro-mayor Robert Wills announced that the municipality had reached an agreement with the Thorne Community Recreation Association (TCRA) to return ownership of the […]

Pontiac hunter Robert Dorion is in favour of some new guidelines being promoted by local MRCs in regards to deer hunting. Last week, representatives from three MRCs (Pontiac, Vallée-de-la-Gatineau and Antoine-Labelle in the Laurentides) held a press conference promoting an initiative by Uni pour la Faune (United for Wildlife), which asks that hunters target bucks […]

A highly acclaimed scientist residing in the Pontiac who studies greenhouse gas emissions and climate change was named a Member of the Order of Ontario on Monday (October 24). Dr. Raymond Desjardins, an agricultural meteorologist, currently resides in Breckenridge but has been a research scientist at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for the past […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting last Wednesday (October 19), Thorne pro-Mayor Robert Wills spoke about the ownership of the municipal hall, an issue that loomed large in the municipality over the years. CHIP101.9 · Clip – Robert Wills – TCRA change Terry Murdock, the mayor from 2013 to 2017, had taken legal […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting in September, Bryson Mayor Alain Gagnon, who also serves as the President of the public safety committee, presented the annual CSP Activity Report, which compiles the statistics from the local Sûreté du Québec detachment from the previous fiscal year (in this case, April 1 2021 to March […]