Politics

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced yesterday (January 9) their decision to modify the operating license of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ (CNL) site at Chalk River to allow for the construction of a “near surface disposal facility” (NSDF). The NSDF project has been in the works for years, with CNL having initiated the environmental assessment […]

After 11 days of strikes and weeks of intensive negotiations, the Front Commun, a coalition of Quebec public service unions has published some details of the proposed agreement in principle which will be submitted to members during the tour of general assemblies taking place from mid-January until February. On its website, the Front Commun invites […]

At the final MRC council meeting of 2023, the mayors approved the 2024 budget for the non-organized territory (TNO) of Lac-Nilgaut. At more than 8,500 square km, it accounts for more than 70% of the MRC’s overall land. The council of mayors acts as administrators for this territory, with separate meetings being held before their […]

At the beginning of each year, CHIP 101.9 publishes articles on various municipal budget forecasts in the Pontiac for 2024. Knowing that the act of publishing the budget forecasts from MRC Pontiac municipalities is considered a fundamental act of municipal management, we offer both an interview with mayors and the budget overviews. Through this budgetary […]

Many homeowners in the Municipality of Mansfield-et-Pontefract have expressed concern about the changes to their property assessment on the website Azimut, available through the MRC Pontiac website. Mansfield Mayor Sandra Armstrong explained that the municipality has reached out to the contractor that the MRC hires to conduct the evaluations in order to facilitate private meeting […]

While the job posting has been on MRC Pontiac’s website since last week, it wasn’t until the council of mayors meeting Wednesday night (December 20) that Economic Development Director Guillaume Boudreau officially announced his resignation, effective December 21. Boudreau spent 13 months on the job after being hired in November 2022. Speaking after the meeting, Boudreau […]

While many children across the province returned to the classroom on December 15 following a one week strike by the Front Commun, parents at some French schools in the Municipality of Pontiac are still taking care of their kids at home. That’s because the teachers in their schools are represented by the Fédération autonome de […]

After hiring Guillaume Boudreau in November of last year, MRC Pontiac is once again looking for an economic development director, posting a job offer to their website December 14. This position in particular has been a difficult one for the organization to keep occupied, as Boudreau is the fifth director to leave the department in […]

A Pontiac farmer took part in a large demonstration in Quebec City last week along with other members of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA). The demonstrators, numbering in the hundreds according to Radio-Canada, marched to the National Assembly ahead of the UPA’s annual general meeting. CHIP 101.9 spoke with David Gillespie, a local UPA […]

Following the rejection of Wednesday’s new offer from the provincial government, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers across Quebec were back on the picket lines today (December 8) for a full week of strikes. The Front Commun, a coalition of unions representing more than 420,000 public employees in health and education, has already held […]