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The Warden of the MRC Jane Toller met with the CAQ’s ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Pierre Dufour, on Tuesday, in regards to the revival of the forestry industry in the Pontiac. During an interview with CHIP, Toller mentioned that during the meeting many topics were discussed. Topics such as the […]

Following last year’s fraud committed by a former employee of RPGL Avocats firm amounting to about $170,000, the MRC Pontiac said it still analyzes the procedures in order to prevent any risk of embezzlement in the future. CHIP 101.9 learned that the MRC wishes, in the future, to associate with another MRC to manage infraction […]

The Pontiac Sorting Center will have to pay more than $40,000 for breaking the law. The Pontiac Sorting Center, located in the Regional Industrial Park in municipality of Litchfield, will have to pay $40,747 for violating the Law on quality of the environment. The company was found guilty of four offenses under that law. According […]

The feature film Mad Dog Labine which was shot here in the Pontiac in 2017 by two young writers and directors, Renaud Lessard and Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr, will be presented in some theatres on April 5th. The film won the Quebec / Canada Focus Grand Prize at its premiere on October 9th, 2018 at the Festival […]

The 9th edition of the Pontiac Cup 3v3 tournament will take place from April 11th to 14th, 2019 at the Centre de Loisirs des Draveurs in Fort-Coulonge. The main organizer of this event, Danick Boisvert, gives some details on the date change for this 2019 edition: Four divisions will be part of the Cup this […]

The annual Fishing Derby organized by the Otter Lake Fire department will be held this Saturday, February 2nd, at Farm Lake in the municipality of Otter Lake at 6am. The key organizer of the Derby, Jean-Paul Lafleur gave more details: There’s also a dart tournament on site, registration is at 8am and the tournament is […]

Young people between the ages of 18 and 29 will have the chance, in March, to participate in the second wave of the La Grande Tournée project with La Défriche du Carrefour Jeunesse-Emploi du Pontiac. Accompanied by program coordinators, these young adults will spend five days in the regions of Charlevoix and Centre-du-Québec to meet […]

A university student from the area, Maryse Vallières, will leave within a few weeks for an agricultural internship in Africa (Senegal). In an interview with CHIP 101.9, she explained the steps she took to be able to complete this internship: During her internship in Senegal, Maryse Vallières will deliver interviews on the radio on a […]

Monday night, Mansfield municipal Council met with Warden Jane Toller to discuss about the meeting she had on Tuesday with the Minister of Forests, Wildlife and Parks, Pierre Dufour, of the Coalition avenir Québec. During the conference call, the mayor of Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Gilles Dionne, said he would like this meeting to be used to increase […]

CHIP 101.9 received an invitation from Davidson sawmill owner Bruno Saint-Cyr to meet him on Monday where he wanted to “set the record straight” and to talk about his project to create a cogeneration plant, which aims to revive the activities at the Davidson sawmill. The site has been shut down for several years now. […]