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Starting Tuesday, June 8, students from the Western Quebec School Board (WQSB) will have the option to be vaccinated against COVID-19. As explained by the Director General of the WQSB, Mike Dubeau, the students will be brought by bus to the designated vaccination centers in the region. CHIP101.9 · Clip – Mike Dubeau – Vaccinations […]

A 59-year-old man was found lifeless in a forest on Île-du-Grand-Calumet, near Chemin Derouin, yesterday morning. Police officers from the Sûreté du Québec attended at around 10 a.m. It could be a work accident, since the man was found unconscious near a place where he was cutting trees. Sergeant Stéphane Tremblay of the Sûreté du […]

The municipalities of the MRC Pontiac will be putting their flags at half mast in memory of the 215 victims who were recently discovered at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. To honor the 215 children whose remains were recently found on the site of a former residential school and […]

According to the most recent data from the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais, the number of active cases in the MRC Pontiac has now reached 15, a slight increase of 3 cases compared to last week. Elsewhere in the Outaouais, the number of cases has decreased in Gatineau with […]

A case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in class group 41 at Sieur-de-Coulonge high school and as a preventive measure, the class group is closed from June 1 to June 14, 2021 inclusive. Also, students transported by the 612 bus must stay at home for the same period. The necessary measures have been taken with […]

The teachers of the Hautes-Rivières Teaching Staff Union (SPEHR FSE-CSQ) will be on strike on June 8 between 2:45 p.m. and 5 p.m. This strike, described as innovative by the Union, therefore affects the Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais School Service Center. The delegates of the Hautes-Rivières FSE-CSQ Teaching Staff Union (SPEHR) voted 96.5% to hold a strike exercise […]

The COVID-19 situation is improving in the Outaouais and remains stable, for the moment, in the Pontiac. According to statistics from the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais, the number of active cases is now 179. In the Pontiac, the number of cases is stable, with 15 cases. This number […]

At the start of the week, marked by the return of summer temperatures, the Société de protection des forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU) is appealing for caution. Over the next few days, a high pressure ridge will set over the province and bring hot and dry weather to much of Quebec. These weather conditions herald […]

The dry weather of the last days and those to come forces municipalities to apply regulations regarding the use of drinking water. This is the case on the side of Fort-Coulonge which reminded its citizens that the periods of automatic watering of gardens, lawns, lawns, hedges, trees, shrubs or other plants are allowed during the […]

The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouaishas indicated that the walk-in offer for the first doses with Pfizer or Moderna will be extended to all vaccination sites in the region, as of Wednesday, June 2, 2021. This offer will therefore be available at the Campbell’s Bay Recreation Center, located at […]