Interviews

The Pontiac Community and Social Development Forum was held Friday (November 16th, 2018) at the Campbell’s Bay Recreation Center, where over 150 people from different organizations here in the Pontiac were in attendance. The federal member of Parliament, Will Amos, was also there and reiterated the support of the government moving forward with the different […]

A Social and Community Development Forum organized in collaboration with the Pontiac Community Development Corporation (CDC Pontiac) and the Pontiac Social Development Table, will be held in Campbell’s Bay on Friday (November 16th) to start the conversation to ultimately improve living conditions for the residents of the region. The General Manager of the CDC Pontiac, […]

Last night (November 14th) in the municipality of L’Isle-Aux-Allumettes, an information session on residual material management was given in collaboration with the MRC and EnvironÉduc Action. Eric O’Brien was on site and was able to speak with one of the representatives of EnviroEduc Action, Ayoub Hammoudi and the mayor of Chichester, Donald Gagnon.

The previous owner of Campbell’s Bay Cement, Todd Hoffman, started a brewery in the municipality of Campbell’s Bay off of Highway 148. Eric O’Brien went to visit him on his site.

Many organizations in the Pontiac and in the Outaouais will be organizing a week of activities for National Caregiver week. The Project coordinator at the Connexions Resource Center, Arnaud de la Salle, told CHIP about the activities they will be organizing in the Pontiac:

From November 1st until November 23rd, Bouffe Pontiac will be collecting requests from families wishing to receive a food box during the annual Fort-Coulonge Knights of Columbus food drive, which is on Friday, December 14th. One of the organizers of the Food Drive, Carl Morin, spoke to Eric O’Brien about the event.

The promoter of the National Park project Joe Kowalski, held an information session last Tuesday (Oct 30) in the municipality of Campbell’s Bay. From CHIP 101.9, Eric O’Brien was there and talked with him.

A group of eight students from the Pontiac Adult Education Center, home health care program are fundraising to be able to go to San Jose de Ocoa, in Dominican Republic next May for a humanitarian mission. This ten-day internship would provide these students with work experience outside the country. Eric O’Brien met a one of […]

Last Thursday, at the Petit Chariot Rouge Vineyard, located in Clarendon, the Pontiac Chamber of Commerce General Assembly, which presented a report of the financial statements of the last months. The meeting was followed by a presentation on cannabis, given by a speaker and addiction research and mental health researcher, Tyler A Pirie. Eric O’Brien […]

The recently appointed candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Pontiac, Dave Blackburn was in the Pontiac, yesterday, with the Member of Parliament for Louis-St-Laurent and Shadow Cabinet Minister for the Treasury Board, Gérard Deltell, on the regional tour of the Electoral district. Eric O’Brien talked with them in this interview: