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September 10, 2026

Economy

Thrift art sale

The walls of Shawville’s Café 349 are hosting an unusual kind of exhibit over the next month, intended to give pieces of art a second

Salmon farm proposal gets grilled

On Aug. 25 and 26, the Campbell’s Bay RA Hall was the site of a hearing hosted by the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE)

Food security, at what cost?

Just a week after Prime Minister Mark Carney shared his government’s strategy to build food security in this country, the Liberals quietly snuck through a

Bread and circuses

This past Sunday, the grounds of the White House were taken over for one of the most gaudy and depressing spectacles in recent memory, a

Thrift art sale

The walls of Shawville’s Café 349 are hosting an unusual kind of exhibit over the next month, intended to give pieces of art a second life after they’ve fallen out of favour at their current homes.  Organizer Cheryl Ann Beillard

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Second motocross event comes to the Pontiac

The same crowd of motorsport enthusiasts that descended on the St-Aubin farm in Otter Lake in June returned to the Pontiac region over the weekend, this time in Litchfield, for another three days of races on e-bikes, dirt bikes and

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Salmon farm proposal gets grilled

On Aug. 25 and 26, the Campbell’s Bay RA Hall was the site of a hearing hosted by the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) on the subject of Samonix, a land-based salmon farm planned for the Litchfield industrial site,

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Fort-Coulonge employees sign first collective agreement

The union representing municipal employees in Fort-Coulonge signed their first collective agreement with the municipality’s management on June 22. The seven municipal employees other than the director general (DG) are covered under this five-year collective agreement, which expires in Dec.

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Food security, at what cost?

Just a week after Prime Minister Mark Carney shared his government’s strategy to build food security in this country, the Liberals quietly snuck through a bill that will radically change how pesticides are regulated, or rather, deregulated.  Bill C-30, passed

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Feds’ new food security plan: McCann weighs in

Earlier this month, the federal government introduced its new food security strategy which lays out its plan for producing more food domestically, making it more affordable for consumers, and making the whole food system less dependent on other countries.  The

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Bread and circuses

This past Sunday, the grounds of the White House were taken over for one of the most gaudy and depressing spectacles in recent memory, a series of high-profile cage fights entitled UFC Freedom 250.   While mixed martial arts matches

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