NEWS

Contrary to other municipalities in the MRC Pontiac, the municipality of Bristol is maintaining a balanced budget for 2020. However, the 2019 floods still took its toll on the municipal budget, though as explained by Mayor Brent Orr, the municipality received compensation from the Québec government: For Bristol, the municipal budget for 2020 totals $2, […]

More than $ 180 million will be invested in the Outaouais road infrastructures between 2020 and 2022 for the maintenance and improvement of roads. In the MRC Pontiac, this investment, granted annually by the ministère des Transports du Québec, will allow the preparation or execution of road works in eight municipalities. As for the MRC […]

A major power outage affected a large portion of the Pontiac yesterday over most of the day, even extending late into the night in the municipality of Fort-Coulonge. According to the Hydro Québec spokesperson, Alain Paquette, ”a major equipment failure near the Bryson Generating Station would have caused the lengthy power outage across the Pontiac”. […]

A Pontiac delegation went to the Hull Hospital Tuesday to express their dissatisfaction with the Minister responsible for the Outaouais region and Minister of Families, Mathieu Lacombe, after learning of the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais’ (CISSSO) decision to close the obstetrics wing of the Pontiac Hospital for 6 months. […]

La Voix du Pontiac / Pontiac Voice is asking Pontiac residents to mobilize and demonstrate against the decision of the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais (CISSSO) to close the obstetrics service for a period of 6 months. The event is scheduled for Sunday, March 1 at 2 p.m. at the […]

The 2020 delegation of student skiers traveled from Quyon to Chelsea today in the Ski to Parliament expedition. Around 30 students from both Pontiac High School and Sieur-de-Coulonge high school (ESSC) are currently attempting to complete the over 120km trip from Fort-Coulonge to Ottawa. The Ski at School Ambassador Guillaume Lavoie-Harvey. The MRC Pontiac troop […]

On March 19th, the CHIP 101.9 host will team up with chef Raphaël Morneau-Bérubé and Arielle Perron, 14 years old, for the Défi des Chefs Leucan. In 2014, Arielle was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphomas, then with a desmoplastic tumour in 2019. In an interview with Marie Gionet, she also discussed how the cancers affected her. […]

During a press briefing held in Shawville last Friday, the Centre de santé intégré et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais announced a new break in obstetrics service at the Pontiac hospital, this time lasting 6 months, until September. Our journalist Élizabeth Séguin was there, here is her report.

Last Friday, the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais called a press briefing to the surprise of the population and elected officials in the Pontiac, to announce a six month closure, until September, of the obstetric services at the Pontiac Hospital. The CISSS de l’Outaouais claimed that this interruption is due […]