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January 7, 2026

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Sophie Kuijper Dickson

Unplugging the IV?

A phone call came in last week from a stranger with an ominous warning. Colette Boisvert Canavan, the director general of a nine-unit seniors home

Pontiac ER stretcher wait times more than double

The average amount of time Pontiac Hospital emergency room (ER) patients waited on stretchers before being moved to a hospital bed more than doubled in the past year, according to new data provided by Outaouais healthcare authority CISSSO. The numbers

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Unplugging the IV?

A phone call came in last week from a stranger with an ominous warning. Colette Boisvert Canavan, the director general of a nine-unit seniors home in Low, shared what she had learned from a CISSSO director: that the CLSC in

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Police arrest Bristol man for Shawville fraud

Sûreté du Québec (SQ) police from the Campbell’s Bay detachment have arrested a man suspected of being connected to a case of fraud committed in two Shawville businesses on Dec. 12, 2024, according to a Mar. 18 police report. Earlier

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