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MRC Pontiac is inviting residents to submit questions ahead of their monthly council of mayors meeting, which will take place on April 19 at 6:30 p.m. at their office in Campbell’s Bay. Citizens are invited to attend and ask questions in person, but the meeting will also be streamed live on the MRC’s Facebook page. […]

The official reopening of the Commonwealth Plywood mill in Rapides-des-Joachims will take place on Wednesday, April 19 at noon, with local elected officials and staff of the facility in attendance. Commonwealth Plywood began operations at the site, which had been closed for more than a decade, over the winter and began its recruitment last fall. […]

The Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge in Mansfield will be temporarily closed on Friday, April 14 between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. to update the lighting on the bridge. The lighting on the bridge was also closed for a few days due to the freezing rain of April 6. “We had to take the necessary precautions to protect […]

There were many farmers in the Pontiac forced to adapt to the extended power outages that hit the region this past week, and Ferme Cedar Creek in Clarendon, a fish farm that raises trout, was no exception. They put some miles on their generator over the 128 hours they were without electricity from Wednesday to […]

Nearly a week after a heavy ice storm hit many areas of southern Quebec, there are nearly 1,000 people in the Pontiac region still in the dark. As of 3:30 p.m. Tusday (April 11) there were 963 customers without power in MRC Pontiac, mainly concentrated in Clarendon, Thorne, Bristol and Otter Lake. This was a […]

The major power outages seen across the MRC Pontiac have certainly improved, however there are still approximately 1,400 households in the Pontiac preparing to spend a sixth consecutive night without power. The MRC Pontiac represented more than 60% of customers without electricity in the Outaouais region. According to Hydro-Quebec’s latest update (Info-Panne), Bristol still had […]

The Warden of the MRC Pontiac, Jane Toller, gave an update on the power outages on this Easter Monday, she denounced the current situation. She believes that despite the freezing rain, the number of days without electricity in areas such as Otter Lake, Thorne, Litchfield, Clarendon, Bristol, is far too high. “We’re not seeing results […]

The MNA for Pontiac, André Fortin, discussed in French and English last Friday, the power outages in the Pontiac. Here is the interview with André Fortin.

Even though the population of the MRC Pontiac is the smallest in the Outaouais, it is in the Pontiac that the number of power outages is the highest in the Outaouais. Despite some improvement, on Easter Monday there were still about 3,000 (2898 at 8:45 am) Hydro-Quebec customers who did not have access to electricity. […]

Power outages in the Pontiac are still present and authorities are imploring Pontiac residents to be careful, especially after the deaths that have occurred elsewhere in Quebec. Pontiac MNA André Fortin insisted on the importance of watching those around you. “It’s sometimes asking how our neighbor is doing, what they may need,” said André Fortin. […]