Author: Caleb Nickerson
At around 7 p.m. Monday evening (July 1), Sûreté du Québec officers pulled over a vehicle on John Street in Shawville, as the driver wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. After conducting checks, officers arrested the driver, a 47-year-old man from Shawville, as his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit. A statement from police […]
Motorists cruising through Mansfield-et-Pontefract on Hwy. 148 should take heed that the speed limit has been lowered to 50 km/h as of today (July 2). In a French-language interview, MTQ representative Jeanne Séguin-Laflamme gave CHIP 101.9 more details about the change. The full (French-language) interview with Séguin-Laflamme is available here.
MRC Pontiac just unveiled a new tourism route for the Pontiac, the Land and Flavours Route highlighting agricultural businesses throughout the region. Stephanie Hébert-Potter, with the MRC’s economic development department, explained that the newly announced route features a wide variety of agritourism operations across the Pontiac. The full interview with Hébert-Potter (4m) is available here.
Stephanie Hébert Potter with MRC Pontiac’s economic development team talks about their new Land and Flavours route.
Samonix, a start-up based out of Chelsea, is looking to create a land-based Atlantic Salmon farming operation in the Pontiac region. At the most recent MRC Pontiac meeting, the project received a letter of support from council, specifically for their application to Hydro-Quebec and the provincial government for a 12 MW electrical hookup. Rémi Bertrand, […]
Rémi Bertrand talks about Samonix, a company he’s a part of that wants to farm Atlantic Salmon in the Pontiac region.
Residents of the Upper Pontiac are no strangers to hydro issues but were hit by a series of outages during last week’s heat wave and again over the weekend, leaving many upset with the state of the region’s electrical infrastructure. L’Isle-aux-Allumettes Mayor Corey Spence estimated that there are about 3,400 people affected by the outages, […]
On Saturday (June 22) residents of Rapides-des-Joachims gathered at the municipal park for the inauguration of their new splash pad, named in honour of late mayor Doug Rousselle. Rousselle was elected mayor of the small, far-flung municipality of around 150 year-round residents back in 2021 and passed away from cancer in September 2023. The new […]
Pontiac MNA André Fortin came by CHIP 101.9’s studio on June 20 to discuss the big regional news of the day, which was the announcement of a new location for the proposed hospital in Gatineau. The federal government will be transferring the Asticou Centre, located on Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes to the province for the […]
At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on June 19, a resolution was approved to contract the Federation of Quebec Municipalities (FQM) for “support services in human resources and labour relations” to aid their selection of a new Assistant Director General. The price range of these services is between $135 and $215 per hour. […]
