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The union representing employees at MRC Pontiac (the Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec or SFPQ) has announced that they reached an agreement in principle with the MRC on October 13. The employees will be voting on this agreement today (October 27) at 4 p.m. During the negotiations, issues such as remote […]

CHIP 101.9 spoke with Thorne Mayor Karen Kelly this morning (October 26) to discuss some of the goings on in the Ladysmith area. At the previous MRC council of mayors meeting, Thorne’s pro-mayor Robert Wills announced that the municipality had reached an agreement with the Thorne Community Recreation Association (TCRA) to return ownership of the […]

Pontiac hunter Robert Dorion is in favour of some new guidelines being promoted by local MRCs in regards to deer hunting. Last week, representatives from three MRCs (Pontiac, Vallée-de-la-Gatineau and Antoine-Labelle in the Laurentides) held a press conference promoting an initiative by Uni pour la Faune (United for Wildlife), which asks that hunters target bucks […]

A highly acclaimed scientist residing in the Pontiac who studies greenhouse gas emissions and climate change was named a Member of the Order of Ontario on Monday (October 24). Dr. Raymond Desjardins, an agricultural meteorologist, currently resides in Breckenridge but has been a research scientist at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for the past […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting last Wednesday (October 19), Thorne pro-Mayor Robert Wills spoke about the ownership of the municipal hall, an issue that loomed large in the municipality over the years. CHIP101.9 · Clip – Robert Wills – TCRA change Terry Murdock, the mayor from 2013 to 2017, had taken legal […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting in September, Bryson Mayor Alain Gagnon, who also serves as the President of the public safety committee, presented the annual CSP Activity Report, which compiles the statistics from the local Sûreté du Québec detachment from the previous fiscal year (in this case, April 1 2021 to March […]

Xavier Lusignan, a young weightlifter from Mansfield-et-Pontefract, reached the highest peak in his career thus far winning multiple gold medals on Saturday at the Junior Pan-American Weighlifting Championships in Lima Peru. Competing in the 96 kg category, the 19-year-old greatly improved on the benchmarks he set at the competition last year. In a post on […]

The Municipality of Mansfield-et-Pontefract published a notice in the October 19 edition of the Pontiac Journal regarding zoning changes in order for a company to construct a development of several hundred rental cottages. The property is located near the old Pontefract Golf Course, and two nearby residents Guy Ladouceur and Doug Smith, were concerned with […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on Wednesday (October 19), a resolution was passed approving funding from the second component of the Regions and Rurality fund (FRR), provided through the provincial ministry of municipal affairs and housing (MAMH). Fifteen projects were received by the deadline of September 16, 2022, totaling $791,332.99, of which […]

Following the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on October 19, Warden Jane Toller was asked about the release of human resources data requested by CHIP 101.9 back in August, a request that was denied by MRC Director General Bernard Roy. The request was for a compilation of HR data going back five years on […]