Politics

Regional health authority CISSSO issued a press release this morning warning that a lack of respiratory therapy staff will cause breaks in some weekend services at the Pontiac Hospital starting Friday July 28 at 3:30 p.m. to Monday July 31 at 7:30 a.m., and continuing every weekend for an “indefinite period” going forward. During these […]

The Fort-Coulonge Minor Hockey association has had their request to play in the Upper Ottawa Valley Minor Hockey League (UOVMH) rejected by the league’s other members. Paul Boisvert, the president of the Fort-Coulonge association, explained that every year they send a letter asking the Ontario league for approval to play on the other side of […]

The MRC Pontiac has published a new job offer for the position of strategic communications advisor, currently occupied by Colleen Jones, who will be departing at the end of August. According to the job description, the strategic communications advisor reports to the Director General and, based on the directives, orientations and priorities of the Warden, […]

Last week, MRC Pontiac issued a call for projects under component 4 of the Regions and Rurality Fund (FRR). The funding is administered by the MRC through an agreement with the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation (MAMH), and this round has around $2 million available for projects that promote “economic vitalization” in the […]

The MRC Pontiac’s public safety committee (CSP) has put together a list of new draft bylaws that were issued to local municipalities in a resolution approved at the last council of mayors meeting on June 21. The committee, made up of several mayors as well as police representatives, proposes county-wide bylaws in order to ease […]

This morning (June 28) Pontiac MNA André Fortin announced that he would not be seeking the leadership of Quebec’s Liberal Party. “Tough decision, but I will not be running for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Québec,” he wrote in a statement on social media. “Tough, because I sincerely believe that my party needs […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on June 21, Warden Jane Toller announced during the section normally allocated to electronically submitted questions that they would no longer be accepting public questions this way going forward. “Because COVID is fortunately not with us, the e-questions, we’re encouraging people to come to speak to us, […]

At the last MRC Pontiac council meeting on June 21, Fire and Public Safety coordinator Julien Gagnon presented a resolution to contract out fire inspections of buildings on the territory deemed “high-risk”. Structures that are commercial, house hazardous materials or host large gatherings of people are deemed higher risk  and need to be inspected by […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting last Wednesday (June 21), Fire and Public Safety coordinator Julien Gagnon presented a revised resolution to be sent to the Ministry of Transport, asking for a speed reduction on a section of Hwy. 148 in Waltham.  At the last MRC council meeting in May, the mayors sent […]

On Monday evening (June 19), MRC Pontiac Warden Jane Toller hosted a town hall meeting at Shawville United Church to discuss the “Energy from Waste” project that she’s been an advocate of for many years, with 15 people in attendance. Her proposal is preliminary, and she noted the next step in the plan is to […]