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The 5th annual Ball Tournament in benefit of Bouffe Pontiac will be held this weekend at Parc Amyotte in Mansfield. In an interview with one of the key organizers of the tournament, Élise Jolin, she talked about why they have organized the event for the last 5 years: This tournament in benefit of Bouffe Pontiac […]

The owner of the Quebec Senior AA Hockey League’s Pontiac Comets, Danick Boisvert, has informed CHIP 101.9 that the pre-season game against the Montagnards of Mont-Laurier, scheduled for Saturday, September 28th, has been cancelled due to a “lack of players”. According to a publication made on the Montagnards’ Facebook page, the Mont-Laurier team also had […]

Familiprix intends to stop the sale of bottled water of 750ml and less in its affiliated pharmacies starting in 2020. The owner of the Shawville store, Marc Aufranc, will take part in this initiative while continuing his turn eco-friendly, notably by banning plastic bags and offering the possibility to its customers to buy certain bulk […]

The Pontiac Chamber of Commerce will hold tonight a Forum for the candidates of this year’s federal election. The Forum is being held at the Campbell’s Bay Recreation Center, located at 2 Second Street, starting at 6:30 pm. CHIP 101.9 will record the forum to present parts of it afterwards. The event is free and […]

Some of the Liberal election signs were vandalized in the riding of Pontiac by stickers of the Quebec flag. In the municipality of Pontiac, whether in the Quyon, Luskville, Breckenridge or even elsewhere in the riding, the face of the incumbent MP, William Amos, have been vandalized with a sticker of the Quebec flag, on […]

Eureka93, formerly LiveWell Food Canada, the company behind the Cannabis Research and development Center project in Litchfield, announced that they have obtained a license from Health Canada to grow cannabis at their Ottawa location (Artiva). At the same time, Eureka93 has also announced that the restructuring is still ongoing within the company and that a […]

This Friday, September 27th, the students of Sieur-de-Coulonge High School are organizing « Marchons pour le climat »: a walk to raise awareness on the issue of climate change. The activity will begin at 1pm, a map of the route is available below;

On Monday, September 23rd at approximately 1:40 pm, the Sûreté du Quebec from the MRC des Colines-de-l’Outaouais pulled over an 88-year-old man from Ottawa for driving 147 km/h in a 90 km/h zone, on Hwy 148 in the Luskville area of the Municipality of Pontiac. For the occasion, the octogenarian received an $871 fine and […]

The Pontiac Senior Comets continue to prepare for the upcoming season. This weekend, the Comets will face off against last year’s champions, the Montagnards of Mont-Laurier. The Comets new head coach, Jean-François Lavergne, said, in an interview with CHIP 101,9, that he believes that the Comets’ forwards will stand out this season. This pre-season game […]

As we approach the 2019 Federal elections on October 21st, CHIP 101.9 is continuing to update listeners on their options in terms of candidates in the upcoming elections. Tuesday, the Conservative Party candidate for the Pontiac, Dave Blackburn, answered questions from the public on the air during Bonjour Pontiac. Here is his answer to Jean-François […]