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The Minister of Higher Education, Danielle McCann, accompanied by the Minister responsible for the Outaouais, Mathieu Lacombe, was at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) yesterday (June 6), to confirm that the establishment will finally obtain a law program. Minister Lacombe stressed that this announcement is also “symbolic” for the region at the moment, […]

GDG Environnement spokesperson, Richard Vadeboncoeur, spoke to CHIP 101.9 where he explained the reasons that, in his opinion, makes spring 2022 more difficult regarding the presence of mosquitoes for the residents of Fort-Coulonge and Mansfield. ” Oh yes ! Look, when you’re working with weather and nature, there’s nothing concrete, so there’s a lot of […]

The Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec (SFPQ) says labor shortages could threaten access to justice in courthouses. According to the SFPQ, this due to the lack of personnel that continue to accumulate and are denounced by stakeholders in the judicial field, including the judiciary. “In our region, the lack of personnel […]

The Villa James Shaw committee met at the Shawville Community Lodge on Tuesday evening (May 31) for their first AGM since the start of the pandemic. The AGM was presided over by the group’s community organizer Michel Laporte, and started off with an adoption of the minutes as well as a reading of the financial […]

The Quebec Green Party has unveiled their candidate for the Pontiac in the general election scheduled for October 3. Pierre Cyr, a resident of Fort-Coulonge, had a career with NAVCANADA as an airport manager and national aviation safety specialist. According to his bio, he is perfectly bilingual and is happy to represent a federalist option […]

Québec Solidaire has just one candidate in the running to represent their party in the upcoming provincial election on October 3, Mike Owen Sebagenzi. Without any competition, he is likely to be officially nominated by the party in the coming weeks. CHIP 101.9 expects to speak with Sebagenzi soon. There are currently only two candidates […]

Art Pontiac will be hosting the grand opening of their new boutique at the Stone School Gallery in Portage-du-Fort this evening (June 3), starting at 5:30 p.m. The evening will also serve as the vernissage for “Conversations”, a textile art exhibition. The group’s communications director Geneviève Has told CHIP 101.9 that the boutique would feature […]

Following Campbell’s Bay Mayor Maurice Beauregard’s cancer diagnosis in late April, the community is banding together to raise money for him and his family. This Saturday, there will be hair cut and bake sale fundraiser a the Campbell’s Bay Lions Hall from 10 a.m. to noon. Organizer Charleen Moore said that she and a committee […]

Police seized just over a kilo of illicit cannabis as well as edibles and other products following raids on two properties in Mansfield-et-Pontefract on Wednesday (June 1). Officers from the Sûreté du Québec’s station in Campbell’s Bay, under the level 1 coordination of the Outaouais, conducted searches on a house and an apartment on rues […]

In less than a week, the Fort-Coulonge / Mansfield Country Festival is set to kick off at the Centre de loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite. The heads of the festival Phil Denault & Carole Faubert are pushing to finish not only preparing for the start of the highly anticipated event, which has been cancelled […]