Author: Marie Gionet

Employees represented by the Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux (APTS) union are on strike starting yesterday and today, June 7 and 8. “After more than a year and a half of negotiations, faced with the government’s refusal to put in place structuring measures to resolve the problems […]

Extreme heat will affect the Pontiac as of today (June 7). Due to these weather alerts and extreme heat forecast by Environment Canada for a large part of the province of Quebec, and given the specific health circumstances of the current COVID-19 pandemic, all schools / centers of the School Board Western Quebec will switch […]

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 May 31 to June 6, 2021 Monday May […]

The COVID-19 situation has significantly improved in the Outaouais. The number of active cases fell below the 100 mark in Gatineau, reaching 85 cases as of June 6. The situation is still more or less the same in the Pontiac with 15 cases, due among other things to cases related to Sieur-de-Coulonge high school. According […]

More than a week after the incident involving Pontiac MP William Amos, who once again found himself in an awkward position while being filmed, this time urinating into a coffee cup during a virtual meeting that he described in his press release as non-public in the House of Commons, neither the Pontiac Federal Liberal Association […]

The Minister of Health and Social Services, Christian Dubé, unveiled on June 3, the opening schedule for making an appointment that will allow the population 18 years and over to advance the administration of the second dose vaccine. “As with the first dose, opening the appointment modification will be done in the order of priority […]

The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais informed the population that as of June 14, the Outaouais region will move to the pre-warning level (yellow zone). The decreasing trend observed in the number of cases, hospitalizations and outbreaks has allowed the region to move to the yellow zone. The yellow […]

The Outaouais mobile vaccination clinic will be in the Pontiac starting Thursday, June 3. The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais says it hopes to reach the population of the Pontiac territory for the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. “We invite people to come see us, we want to increase […]

The Association des radios communautaires du Québec (ARCQ) celebrates the arrival of François Carrier as president of the organization. General Manager of Pontiac Community Radio (CHIP 101.9), François Carrier has been involved in the ARCQ board of directors since 2016. He says he wants to do everything in his power so that the Association can […]