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March 4, 2026

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Sophie Kuijper Dickson

Peonies take a bow

Despite our slow, cold spring, it seems we’re right on track with summer in the Pontiac. The corn is looking just about knee high. Strawberries

Congratulations in order?

In our Conversation with the Candidates federal election event, Liberal candidate and incumbent Sophie Chatel promised People’s Party candidate Todd Hoffman that if elected, her

Gossip gives me hope

The story of what compelled my grandparents, David and Rosaleen Dickson, to pack up their life in the city and swap it for running a

Peonies take a bow

Despite our slow, cold spring, it seems we’re right on track with summer in the Pontiac. The corn is looking just about knee high. Strawberries are ripe for the picking, mostly. And the peonies, in their exaggerated curtsies, have laid

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Fortin named Liberals’ new ‘whip en chef’

The Quebec Liberal Party’s recently elected leader Pablo Rodriguez has appointed Pontiac MNA André Fortin to the position of “whip en chef”, or chief whip for the party. In a June 26 press release, Fortin was also named opposition critic

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Congratulations in order?

In our Conversation with the Candidates federal election event, Liberal candidate and incumbent Sophie Chatel promised People’s Party candidate Todd Hoffman that if elected, her government would lift all federal internal trade barriers by Canada Day. In return, Mr. Hoffman

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Gossip gives me hope

The story of what compelled my grandparents, David and Rosaleen Dickson, to pack up their life in the city and swap it for running a community newspaper here in the Pontiac was never one I got to hear from the

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