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The Municipality of Campbell’s Bay informed its citizens that paving work will continue on municipal streets this Thursday, October 10th. Major interventions will take place on Leslie, Front and Borden Roads.

Co-President and CEO of LiveWell Food Canada (now known as Eureka 93), Seann Poli, sent a letter to his subscribers by email this week, expressing his concerns about the future of the company. “Like you, we are very disappointed with the current state of the business and are doing our best not to let the […]

The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais (CISSS) has confirmed that a temporary interruption of service in obstetrics at the Pontiac Community Hospital will take place from midnight tonight until Thursday, October 10th, at 8pm. It was also mentioned that this situation is caused by a lack of nursing staff, which […]

This morning, the funeral mass was held for Véronique Bourque, the 17-year-old for the Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield area, who was the victim of a car accident. The ceremony was celebrated at St-Pierre Church in Fort-Coulonge, this morning at 11am.

The MRC Pontiac has issued an employment opportunity for a maintenance worker and a Strategic Communications Advisor. Those interested in taking up one of these positions have until October 25th to submit their application. The person sought for the position of Strategic Communications Advisor must have a university degree in communications, public relations, marketing or […]

Yesterday, CHIP 101.9 continued its coverage of the 2019 federal elections in the Pontiac by hosting the incumbent Liberal MP William Amos. He gave a shorter English version of the lengthy morning interview during ‘Bonjour Pontiac’ and answered questions pertaining to his campaign, notably he answered a question on the economy of the Pontiac: He […]

Following the extraordinary meeting of the mayors of the MRC on October 2nd, the MRC Pontiac has resolved to abandon the current MRC Pontiac National Park Committee and to create a new one with stakeholders from Quebec, resulting in a Pontiac based park. This decision disappointed the main promoter of the park idea, Joe Kowalski. […]

Last week, following the announcement of an international workshop on Agritourism in Burlington, Vermont in October 2020, CHIP 101.9 spoke to the Chair of the Canadian American exchange agro-tourism circuit (CANAMEX), David Gillespie, who will take part in the Conference as the representative of Canada on the international steering committee. In the interview, Gillespie talked […]

Mégane Fortin, a 12-year-old from Mansfield-et-Pontefract, had a great experience last weekend representing the Shriners Hospital in Montreal at the “Shriners Hospitals for Children Open”, an official PGA golf event. She kept the scores of professional golfers. Mégane was one of 22 patient ambassadors at this event. She was born with hydrocephalus, and had her […]

The Warden of the MRC Pontiac, Jane Toller, published an open letter in which she speaks to Pontiac citizens, at her mid-term, and invites them to take action and not to “wait for an important investor or a government intervention”. “It’s time to rebuild and to move forward,” says Jane Toller. ” Too often we […]