Dear Editor, On June 26, 2026 we, a handful of citizens living in Portage-du-Fort, formally requested that the Quebec government conduct a full environmental review of the proposed Samonix Salmon farm. Other individuals living in the Pontiac did the same.

Dear Editor, I wish the Conservative Party would choose a new leader. Poilievre is whiney and has a negative attitude about Canada. While I am quite satisfied with the current federal government, especially its handling of the U.S. administration’s threats

Dear Editor, Like every other year, this year’s Shawville Fair has something for pretty much everyone. For local writers, the Pontiac Agricultural Society is hosting the fourth writing competition. In 2023, there were 21 entries across five classes. In 2025,

Dear Editor, On Saturday, Aug. 8, Nancy Conroy, Betty Chamberlain and Peter Morrison organized a tour of the graves of the early Clarendon pioneers. Nancy talked a little about each founding pioneer family. Then she explained how to clean the

Dear Editor, The presentation held in June by the Bureau d’audiences publique sur l’environnement (BAPE) about Samonix’s proposed land-based salmon farm in Litchfield was helpful but inadequate. Questions were limited and some answers were either incomplete or dismissed.  Several citizens

Dear Editor, It’s the power play of the future. In my younger life, I felt that there was something out of balance. Social pressures in those days skewed toward trimming the different back, in favour of the similar. This applied

Dear Editor, Just what we needed. This phenomenon may not be happening here yet, and may not ever, but I just heard about it, and it magnifies my concern over the artificial internet taking over our lives bit by bit. 

Dear Editor, Ontario is experiencing record-breaking forest fires raging out of control. Here, we get a couple of days of orange skies, and some of us suffer breathing difficulties, a sore throat or eye irritation. My stepson in Madison, Wisconsin