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MRC Pontiac has launched a call for cultural projects with $35,000 in this year’s envelope, through funding from Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communication. Eligible entities include municipalities, non-profit organizations, non-profit cooperatives or Indigenous Band Councils. Sabrina Ayres, the socio-economic development coordinator at MRC Pontiac explained the types of projects that will be prioritized. The […]

Last Wednesday (October 23), during a highly publicized meeting of the federal Liberal Party’s national caucus, MPs discussed the future of the party’s leadership with an election around the corner. During the meeting, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was presented with a letter from 24 MPs requesting that he step down from the party’s leadership. The […]

Two people have been arrested following an attempted theft of overhead wires on rue Thomas-Lefebvre in Mansfield-et-Pontefract early Friday morning. At around 6 a.m. on October 25, police were called to the area for a theft in progress involving cables being removed from poles along the street. Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Marc Tessier said […]

A local citizen activist is helping organize a public information session on radon next Saturday in Campbell’s Bay with a group of experts, to mark the beginning of Radon Action month. The free event will take place on Saturday November 2, at the Campbell’s Bay RA Hall (2 rue Second) from 1 p.m. to 3 […]

After more than 500 days without a collective agreement, the union representing Quebec’s nurses as well as other health professionals (FIQ) announced last week that their membership had voted to accept a mediator’s recommendation. The turnout among the FIQ’s roughly 80,000 members was 75%, with 66.3% voting in favour. The provincial government and the FIQ […]

The Pontiac Senior Comets home opener will be played at 5:30 p.m. this Sunday, October 27 at the Shawville arena. The game was supposed to take place at the Centre de Loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite in Fort-Coulonge, however a due to an issue with the arena’s refrigeration system, plans had to change quickly. […]

Next week, regional health advocacy group SOS Outaouais will be holding a demonstration in Gatineau to decry the disparity between health care funding in the region and the rest of the province. The event will take place on Wednesday October 30 at Espace Canevas (425 boulevard Saint-Joseph in Gatineau) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. […]

Late last week, a 49 year-old man from Sturgeon Falls Ont. was arrested twice in two days for suspected drug-impaired driving by the Pontiac detachment of the Sûreté du Québec. On Thursday evening (October 17) at around 7 p.m., police were called to the scene of a minor 2-vehicle accident on rue Main in Portage-du-Fort. […]

The Elsie Gibbons room at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay was overflowing on Wednesday night (October 16) as around 50 citizens attended the monthly meeting, mainly to voice their support for changes to the way the MRC calculates its municipal shares.  This is the second meeting in a row with a large attendance related […]

The committee in charge of the Centre de Loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite announced earlier this week that the opening of the arena would be delayed by around three weeks due to issues with their refrigeration system. Committee member Christine Bourque explained that they had just replaced their condenser and when they turned on […]