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Incinerator again dominates questions at meeting of mayors by Charles Dickson Campbell’s Bay Apr. 22, 2024 At the April meeting of Pontiac County mayors, held

Incinerator town hall series wraps up

Stopping the project requires 10 mayors to vote against it, but there is no plan for another vote, says warden by Charles Dickson Campbell’s Bay

Nurses reject tentative deal by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Quebec Apr. 13, 2024 The province’s largest nurses’ union has voted to reject the tentative deal the

Bristol withdraws support for incinerator

by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Pontiac Apr. 8, 2024 Bristol council voted unanimously to retract its previous support for the waste incinerator project being proposed by

Norway Bay to get new docks

by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Pontiac Apr. 2, 2024 The Municipality of Bristol will pay for a new set of docks to be installed at the

Carrier leaves CHIP

François Carrier, General Manager of CHIP FM since 2012, has left his position at the Pontiac radio station to take on a new challenge with

Incinerator again dominates questions at meeting of mayors by Charles Dickson Campbell’s Bay Apr. 22, 2024 At the April meeting of Pontiac County mayors, held last Wednesday at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay, questions about the proposed garbage incinerator

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Incinerator town hall series wraps up

Stopping the project requires 10 mayors to vote against it, but there is no plan for another vote, says warden by Charles Dickson Campbell’s Bay & Otter Lake Apr. 9 & 10 The series of five town hall-styled meetings hosted

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Nurses reject tentative deal by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Quebec Apr. 13, 2024 The province’s largest nurses’ union has voted to reject the tentative deal the union reached with the government in March. The Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec

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Bristol withdraws support for incinerator

by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Pontiac Apr. 8, 2024 Bristol council voted unanimously to retract its previous support for the waste incinerator project being proposed by the MRC Pontiac at its council meeting on Apr. 2. The decision was met by

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Norway Bay to get new docks

by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Pontiac Apr. 2, 2024 The Municipality of Bristol will pay for a new set of docks to be installed at the Norway Bay beach this year to make deep-water swimming possible despite the indefinite closure of

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Convoy heads to Ottawa to protest carbon tax

by Charles Dickson Shawville Apr. 1, 2024 Twenty-one people in a nine-vehicle convoy left Shawville just after 9 a.m. on Monday, heading for Ottawa to register a complaint with the federal government over the carbon tax increase which came into

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Carrier leaves CHIP

François Carrier, General Manager of CHIP FM since 2012, has left his position at the Pontiac radio station to take on a new challenge with Le Droit newspaper. Carrier made the shift to his new role as General Manager and

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