Author: Eric O'Brien
Claude Bertrand talks about his candidacy for the Green Party in the next federal election.
The conference on the benefits of resilience, originally scheduled for February 13, 2025, has been postponed to March 26, 2025 due to severe weather conditions. Organized by the Pathfinders network of the ROCSMO (Regroupement des organismes communautaires en santé mentale de l’Outaouais), this conference promises to offer valuable tools for building personal and professional resilience […]
The MRC Pontiac council of mayors will gather for their monthly public meeting tonight (March 19) at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Elsie Gibbons room, and will be streamed live to the MRC’s Facebook page. Several items of note are on the agenda, including […]
The Leucan Outaouais Chefs’ Challenge is back, and after a two-year interruption, CHIP will have the chance to participate once again. This year, eight chefs will participate in this friendly culinary competition to benefit Leucan and Maison Papillon. The Leucan Chefs’ Challenge brings together eight chefs and eight media outlets, including CHIP 101.9, which will […]
The Sûreté du Québec announced earlier today (March 18) that they had arrested a local man on March 14 in connection with fraud committed at two businesses in Shawville in December. The statement notes that the man, 54, of Bristol, was photographed in a business in Shawville on December 12 using a debit card that […]
The Mansfield-et-Pontefract Fire Department have a new pickup truck in their fleet for hauling trailers and responding to medical calls, which was unveiled to the public on Saturday (March 15) . Chief Patrick Bertrand said that the project has been in the works for several years, and involved funding from MRC Pontiac as well as […]
Mansfield-et-Pontefract Fire Chief Pat Bertrand talks about the new pickup truck that they acquired.
Regional health authority CISSSO announced Thursday morning (March 13) that they are cutting more than 700 positions throughout the Outaouais in an effort to meet the provincial government’s demand for a balanced budget. Late last year, Santé Quebec, the newly restructured heath authority for the province announced that each regional service network would have to […]
CISSSO CEO Dr. Marc Bilodeau discusses staffing cuts that were announced on March 13.