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The body of a young man was pulled from the water in a lake in the Municipality of Otter Lake on Sunday afternoon (July 13), after he was reported missing on Saturday evening. According to Sûreté du Québec Sergeant Stéphane Tremblay, the 25-year old man from Campbell’s Bay was swimming with friends and went missing […]

On July 10, Quebec’s police watchdog the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) announced that they had closed their investigation into a woman who was seriously injured while in police custody at the Sûreté du Québec station in Campbell’s Bay last year, and died several days later in hospital. The BEI is called to investigate whenever […]

Earlier this week, Campbell’s Bay councillor and community volunteer Josey Bouchard announced her intention to seek the position of MRC Pontiac Warden in this fall’s municipal elections. “New challenge for me this fall, I am running to be the next Warden MRC Pontiac,” she wrote in a post on social media. In addition to being […]

MRC Pontiac announced earlier today that there will be a special sitting of MRC Pontiac council on Thursday July 10. The meeting will take place in the Elsie Gibbons Room at 6:30 p.m. The only item on the agenda is “Calls for tenders – recyclable materials”.  

Residents of the Upper Pontiac have recently had more headaches caused by power outages, after heavy rainfall on Monday seems to have resulted in another widespread outage that was only resolved mid-day Tuesday. The region is known for its numerous power outages, which have long frustrated residents and elected officials. Hydro-Quebec announced major upgrades in […]

Following the recent agreements that the municipalities of Bryson and Ile-du-Grand-Calumet signed to retain the services of the Campbell’s Bay-Litchfield Fire Department, CHIP 101.9 has obtained the full text of the documents. The documents are available here: Bryson Calumet. Though the 5-year agreements are quite similar, Bryson is obligated to pay 20% of the department’s […]

Canada’s trade relationship with the United States has been making headlines for some months now, due largely to President Donald Trump’s chaotic implementation (and scrapping of) various tariffs. More recently the president’s ire has been directed at Canada’s supply management system, which governs Canada’s dairy, egg and poultry sectors, prompting numerous headlines in Canadian media […]

The Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais School Services Centre has announced that its council appointed Nadine Carpentier as Director General at its meeting on June 25. Carpentier, who officially began work on June 30, 2025, spoke to CHIP 101.9 about her appointment: Carpentier has been serving as interim Director General since November 2024 following the retirement of Denis Rossignol. […]

Like spring, June proved to be a quiet month for Quebec’s forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU, with a third of the average number of fires for this time of year. Over the past month, the organization recorded 33 fires affecting 25.5 hectares of forest in the Intensive Protection Zone (IPZ), compared with a ten-year average […]

Last week, MRC Pontiac released the latest reports for the Fond régions et ruralité (FRR) components 2 and 4, though only one lists the private businesses that received public funding. The FRR is a provincial envelope that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs (MAMH) distributes for MRCs to divvy up within their region, with different components […]