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The CHIP 101.9 host Marie Gionet will once again participate in the Défi des chefs Leucan Outaouais for the CHIP 101.9 team, on March 19th at the Palais des congrès de Gatineau. This event is a friendly competition between nine teams made up of a media personality, a chef, and a child in treatment or […]

The Société de Protection des Fôrets contre le feu (SOPFEU) issued a press release yesterday announcing that another cohort of Canadian firefighters would join the fire efforts in Australia on February 6th. The SOPFEU confirmed that they would be sending four Outaouais firefighters from the Maniwaki base, notably Philippe Fortin, a Fort-Coulonge firefighter from Mansfield. […]

The Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais School Board (CSHBO) released its 2018-2019annual report. In an interview with CHIP 101.9, CSHBO Director General Denis Rossignol provided details of the report, highlighting the continuation of the Plan d’engagement vers la réussite 2018-2022, which is halfway through its completion right now. Denis Rossignol also wanted to add that the CSHBO is working […]

A Campbell’s Bay native, Genevieve (Haley) Morrison was inducted in the Canada-West Hall of Fame Friday, after a decorated Student-Athlete wrestling career for the University of Calgary. From 2007 to 2011, Morrison topped the national podium, claiming the Canada-West gold medal each season, while becoming the first female wrestler to win five consecutive gold medals […]

More than fifty people attended the screening of the 2019 Ski to Parliament documentary last Friday at Sieur-de-Coulonge high school. This documentary summed up the cross-country skiing expedition of a dozen ESSC students from Fort-Coulonge to Parliament Hill in Ottawa in February 2019. The adventure lasted four days and a total of 130 kilometres. One […]

This week, the Syndicat du personnel de l’enseignement des Hautes-Rivières (Teachers union) and the Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais School Board are highlighting Teacher Appreciation Week. The theme this year is to thank 1,216,791 times the teachers, one for each students who attend schools in Quebec. The president of the Syndicat, Daniel Boisjoli, hopes above all for concrete gestures […]

The Housing Authority of Pontiac was official launched on January 1st, 2020, bringing together the MRC Pontiac and the municipality of Pontiac (19 municipalities in total). This new office, which has 121 social housing units, received support from the Société d’habitation du Québec (SHQ), and its partners, along the process of its implementation, which began […]

The Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais School Board released its 2018-2019 annual report, in which we learn that, during the previous year, the CSHBO provided services for 34 municipalities and 2 Aboriginal communities in the MRC du Pontiac and the MRC de la Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, amounting to a little more than 2,700 students. The report also summarized the establishments presided […]

In a press release, the Member of Parliament for the Pontiac William Amos said he was pleased that the Government of Canada released a draft scientific assessment of plastic pollution, which highlights the magnitude of plastic pollution in Canada. This assessment confirms that larger plastics, such as bags and straws can cause physical harm to […]

The Comets’ offense delivered another high scoring game on Saturday, winning 10-6 over the Mont-Laurier Montagnards. During the game, Justin Charbonneau and Matthew Warren both scored two goals, earning respectively the first and second stars of the game. The Comets have now solidified the first place in the league with a record of 12 wins […]