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March 4, 2026

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Sophie Kuijper Dickson

Highway repairs resume on four-lanes

The province has resumed work repairing the four-lane stretch of Highway 148 that passes through Luskville, with plans to repave the entire section by the

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

Giant Tiger gives big to McDowell breakfast club

The Shawville Giant Tiger recently donated $3,500 to the McDowell Elementary School Home and School committee, which will be given directly to the school’s breakfast club so it can continue to feed the increasing number of children being signed up

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Highway repairs resume on four-lanes

The province has resumed work repairing the four-lane stretch of Highway 148 that passes through Luskville, with plans to repave the entire section by the end of September, according to a press release from the Ministère des Transports du Québec

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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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