Politics

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on March 19, council voted on a revised bylaw for the management of meetings. The new bylaw passed 14-2, with Otter Lake Mayor Jennifer Quaile and Alleyn-et-Cawood pro-Mayor Sidney Squitti voting against. There were no representatives of the municipalities of Bryson or Fort-Coulonge present. While the original […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on March 19, council passed a bylaw in support of expanding the existing student firefighter training program to the area’s English schools. Speaking after the meeting, MRC public safety coordinator Julien Gagnon explained that the two year pilot project at the region’s French high school, École sécondaire […]

Local brewer Todd Hoffman will be the candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in the riding of Pontiac-Kitigan Zibi in the upcoming federal election. The party, started in 2018 by former Conservative MP and leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, was represented in Pontiac in the last election by David Bruce Gottfred, and received 2,813 votes […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on March 19, council voted down a resolution requesting a pause in the MRC’s legal proceedings against the Municipality of Alleyn-et-Cawood for their unpaid 2024 shares. Shares are the fees that municipalities are charged by the MRC for various services, and Alleyn-et-Cawood’s surged by more than 150%  […]

When the next federal election is called, it will be Claude Bertrand representing the Green Party in the riding of Pontiac-Kitigan Zibi. The party’s candidate in the 2019 election, he finished in 5th place with 3,762 votes or 6%. A retired engineer and RCAF pilot, he has resided in the Municipality of La Pêche full […]

The MRC Pontiac council of mayors will gather for their monthly public meeting tonight (March 19) at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Elsie Gibbons room, and will be streamed live to the MRC’s Facebook page. Several items of note are on the agenda, including […]

Regional health authority CISSSO announced Thursday morning (March 13) that they are cutting more than 700 positions throughout the Outaouais in an effort to meet the provincial government’s demand for a balanced budget. Late last year, Santé Quebec, the newly restructured heath authority for the province announced that each regional service network would have to […]

On March 3, around 30 people attended a second public consultation regarding a plan to rezone a section of residential land to allow a block of four six-unit apartment buildings (site plan available here) in Shawville along chemin John-Dale near the intersection with West Street. Representatives of the developers, Maisons PAJ, were on hand to […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on February 19, council passed several resolutions relating to their AgriSaveur project, which aims to help local agricultural producers to process and market their products. The three pillars of the project are the abattoir in Shawville, a retail space that will be housed at the abattoir building […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on February 19, it was announced that several projects received funding through the FRR component 2, a fund provided by Quebec’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAMH), including “participatory budgets” in four municipalities: Otter Lake, Campbell’s Bay, Waltham and l’Isle-aux-Allumettes. Participatory budgets have been used in […]