Author: Marie Gionet

Roger Larose has returned to the mayor’s seat in the Municipality of Pontiac, with slightly fewer votes than when he was defeated in 2017. This year he won a three-way race with 778 votes (39.29%) compared to four years ago when he was defeated in a two-candidate contest with 852 votes (40.98%). Having another candidate […]

A memorial bench was unveiled at the Chutes Coulonge Park on Saturday (November 6) in honour of a young couple who passed away in March 2020. Jacynthe Bélair wanted a way to remember her friends Todd “TJ” Vibert Jr., 23, of Campbell’s Bay and his fiancée Karine Marion, 22, of Fort Coulonge, who died in […]

A new musical duo named after a Pontiac landmark released their first EP on Friday (November 5). Bristol Mines, made up of Burke Johnson and Isaac Baronikian, dropped their debut project entitled Easy Target on November 5, and it’s now available on Spotify and Apple Music. The pair met while studying audio engineering in Ottawa […]

The Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) published its regional panorama of Quebec on November 4, which is a socio-economic portrait of the 17 administrative regions and the regional county municipalities (MRCs) that constitute them. The panorama presents eleven aspects of administrative regions: demography, labour market, education, regional GDP, disposable income per capita, living […]

Here is the list of municipal elected officials in the Pontiac region. *Note that these results are unofficial and could be subject to change* Name in black – Incumbent Name in [rouge] red [/ rouge] – New candidate Name in [bleu] blue [/ bleu] – Candidate back in a different role MRC Pontiac Warden After […]

Newly elected Shawville Mayor Bill McCleary said that waking up as the new representative of his community was a strange feeling. CHIP101.9 · Clip – Bill McCleary – reaction McCleary had served on council for the majority of the past eight years and narrowly lost the mayoral race in 2017, coming up 16 votes short […]