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Three unions in the region; the l’Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux (APTS), the Syndicat des travailleuses et des travailleurs de la santé et des services sociaux de l’Outaouais – CSN, as well as the Syndicat des professionnels en soins de l’Outaouais (SPSO)-FIQ, tabled a petition of 2925 […]

At the most recent meeting of mayors of the Pontiac MRC, the members of the regional council passed a resolution opposing the Firearms Registration Act, which came into effect on January 29th, 2018. The owners of unrestricted firearms must, since that date, request that their rifles or shotguns be registered with the Quebec’s Service d’immatriculation […]

At the most recent meeting of the mayors of the MRC Pontiac, Warden Jane Toller said she recently met with James Gibson, mayor of Rapides-des-Joachims, and the forester Alain Trudel, about the possibility of reopening of the sawmill. She pointed out that the sawmill pays logging fees and sends someone to the plant site daily […]

The MRC has plans to ask the Quebec government to get a “special consideration” as a forestry depressed area, in order to revive the forest industry in the region. According to Warden Jane Toller, being recognized as such will open the door to more funds and opportunities. At the most recent regional council meeting, the […]

This week only, the Municipality of Fort-Coulonge has informed its citizens that the garbage pickup, which is normally on Wednesdays, will instead take place this Thursday, January 24th. For more information, contact the municipality at 819-683-2259.

A freezing rain warning has been issued by Environment Canada for the Pontiac region. Two to four millimetres of freezing rain is expected for the Outaouais at the late afternoon today, which could make roads, streets, sidewalks and parking lots icy and slippery. Environment Canada suggests that drivers adapt their driving to changing road conditions.

Part of the Outaouais was affected by a major blackout Tuesday afternoon, affecting more than 7,000 residences in the region. According to the Hydro Quebec spokesperson Marie-Annick Gariépy, Hydro-Québec had to cut off electricity to an area in Wakefield to carry out an emergency repair in the transformer. “The transformer was from the seventies, so […]

The annual night celebrating feminism which gathers over 200 persons every year, the 2019 Salon de la Femme will be held on Friday, March 1st at the Pontiac Conference Center. International Women’s Day is on March 8th, and this event is to celebrate it. The main organizer of the event, Claudee Galipeau, gave a first […]

The Centre de formation professionnelle du Pontiac (CFP Pontiac) provided news about their cooking and secretarial-accounting programs, which were scheduled to begin this month. The organizers of the cooking class are hoping to get more registrations before starting the course and regarding the secretarial-accounting course, the start date has been postponed to February 18th, due […]

A study is being conducted in the municipalities of Bristol and Pontiac by researchers at the University of McGill, to assess the relationship between humans and nature entitled ”How people from Bristol and Pontiac feel nature makes their lives better”. The researcher conducting the study, Dalal Hanna, told CHIP in an interview her goal with […]