Author: Marie Gionet
The Outaouais and the Pontiac are in the yellow alert level as of today. Despite a declining number of active cases in the Outaouais, the number of cases in the MRC Pontiac has increased over the past week, due in part to a community outbreak that affected Sieur-de-Coulonge high school. The number of active cases […]
Here is a summary of the activities and events that took place on the territory of the MRC Pontiac. For legal and security reasons and in order not to compromise ongoing investigations, certain events and activities cannot be included. Here is the report for the period from June 7 to 13, 2021 Monday June 7 […]
It’s official, the border between Quebec and Ontario will reopen on June 16 to non-essential crossings. Everything was confirmed on Monday (June 14) by the office of the Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Security, Geneviève Guilbault. This confirmed the upcoming lifting of the government decree prohibiting any travel deemed non-essential between Quebec and Ontario. […]
Residents of Otter Lake and Alleyn-et-Cawood have to make a major detour to join the rest of the Pontiac, since work had to be done to replace a culvert on route 301. Users must take the detour roads in place via routes 148 and 303. According to what the MNA for Pontiac André Fortin revealed, […]
The Centre de services scolaire des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais (CSSHBO) shared the steps taken concerning the organization of activities for graduates. “The schools of our school service center are organizing an activity whose bubble-class will be respected and without guest, in order to mark the end of secondary school, and this, in accordance with the instructions issued […]
This Saturday will be a car rally to come to the aid of Bouffe Pontiac. The event will begin tomorrow morning (Saturday June 12) at the Maison Culturelle George Bryson, located at 314 rue Principale in Mansfield-et-Pontefract. The cost of tickets is $ 20 per participant. One of the event organizers, Sandra Armstrong, explained what […]
The Société de protection des forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU), in collaboration with the Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs (MFFP), called on colleagues from Canada to deal with the numerous forest fires that are raging in Quebec. Thus, 200 forest firefighters from New Brunswick and British Columbia join the 500 forest […]
Even if the Pontiac will be in the yellow zone in the coming days, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the June 16 meetings of the TNO Council and the Regional Council of Mayors of the MRC Pontiac will be held virtually on ZOOM. In this context, the MRC Pontiac invites residents to submit their questions […]
A body was found in Isle-aux-Allumettes along the Ottawa River this morning around 9:45 am, the Sûreté du Québec police officers from the MRC Pontiac station were called after the discovery of a body in L’Isle-aux-Allumettes. The body was located in the waters of the Ottawa River by citizens. An investigation is underway to determine […]
Despite a return to the yellow zone for the Outaouais region, several questions surrounding the border between Ontario and Quebec remain unanswered, according to Pontiac MNA André Fortin. The latter believes that the Premier of Quebec, François Legault, even confused the issue of the international border with the reality of the border with Ontario. He […]