Meet the Meteors!
March 29, 2025
Fort Coulonge’s new women’s hockey team, the Pontiac Meteors, hosted its first all-women hockey tournament on Saturday, less than four months after Lisa Soucie first
Fort Coulonge’s new women’s hockey team, the Pontiac Meteors, hosted its first all-women hockey tournament on Saturday, less than four months after Lisa Soucie first
The committee of volunteers responsible for running the Fort Coulonge arena has been hard at work over the winter to find creative ways to finance
People working in healthcare and education in the Outaouais are criticizing the Quebec government’s 2025/2026 budget, tabled last week, for not investing enough in these
The Pontiac syndicate of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) had a lively debate about increasing union dues before it could officially begin its 2025
The Pontiac Chamber of Commerce brought together local business owners, organization directors and municipal leaders from across the Pontiac last Wednesday evening for a discussion
Hydro-Québec hosted an open house in Quyon on Mar. 26 to address the public’s concerns about upcoming work on the power lines. The company is
The MRC Pontiac has released the results of a territory-wide housing survey it conducted a year ago in a statistical report highlighting key stats and
Five candidates are running to represent the residents of the Pontiac-Kitigan Zibi riding on Parliament Hill. Catch up on who they are and what they
As part of an ongoing series, we have been publishing one recipe every week from Pontiac County Recipes, a small book that is home to
Four Pontiac municipalities are taking a new approach to community project development this year, one that will see greater participation and input from the municipalities’
Fort Coulonge’s new women’s hockey team, the Pontiac Meteors, hosted its first all-women hockey tournament on Saturday, less than four months after Lisa Soucie first began inviting Pontiac women to join her on the ice. Players from Gatineau to Chapeau
The committee of volunteers responsible for running the Fort Coulonge arena has been hard at work over the winter to find creative ways to finance high price-tag expenses that have come up in the past year, and this month, that
People working in healthcare and education in the Outaouais are criticizing the Quebec government’s 2025/2026 budget, tabled last week, for not investing enough in these critical social services. The $165-billion budget, titled “For a strong Québec,” was pitched by Finance
The Pontiac syndicate of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) had a lively debate about increasing union dues before it could officially begin its 2025 annual general assembly on Mar. 27. The meeting’s start was delayed by about 40 minutes
The Pontiac Chamber of Commerce brought together local business owners, organization directors and municipal leaders from across the Pontiac last Wednesday evening for a discussion about how to make sense of the chaos caused by tariff threats, and how to
Hydro-Québec hosted an open house in Quyon on Mar. 26 to address the public’s concerns about upcoming work on the power lines. The company is planning to upgrade the nearly hundred-year-old transmission lines between Quyon and Wyman in the coming
The MRC Pontiac has released the results of a territory-wide housing survey it conducted a year ago in a statistical report highlighting key stats and takeaways. The survey, opened in Feb. 2024, was available to the public for two months
Five candidates are running to represent the residents of the Pontiac-Kitigan Zibi riding on Parliament Hill. Catch up on who they are and what they care about here.
As part of an ongoing series, we have been publishing one recipe every week from Pontiac County Recipes, a small book that is home to a collection of kitchen secrets from across the region, published by Pontiac Printshop in 1968.
Four Pontiac municipalities are taking a new approach to community project development this year, one that will see greater participation and input from the municipalities’ residents. The initiative, called “participatory budgeting,” will invite community members in Otter Lake, Allumette Island,
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