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April 23, 2026

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Chamber celebrates local businesses

Connor Lalande Pontiac February 22, 2022 Business owners, politicians, artists and other community members joined in a celebration of Pontiac’s business community at a gala

Pontiac Youth Council Returns for 2023

Connor Lalande Pontiac February 13, 2022 The MRC Pontiac Youth Council met for its first official sitting and swearing in ceremony on February 13 at

B’nai Brith camp fire under investigation

Brett Thoms Quyon February 12, 2023 MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police say they are investigating a suspicious fire that occurred Sunday morning at Camp B’nai Brith

Scholarship in honour of Maurice Beauregard

Zainab Al-Mehdar Campbell’s Bay February 1, 2022 Inspired by the late Maurice Beauregard’s love of serving and continuously advocating for the community, his family has

Shop owner warned over English Facebook posts

Brett Thoms Shawville Feb. 24, 2023 The owner of Boutique Shawville Shooz, Jill McBane, received a warning letter last week from Quebec’s French language authority, the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF), after publishing posts in English-only on her

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Spaghetti supper raises $5,000 for local family

Brett Thoms Shawville Feb. 23, 2023 The McDowell Home and School Committee organized a community spaghetti supper to support the family of Jennifer Rivet-Butler, a Shawville mother who passed away recently, leaving behind seven children. The supper ended up fundraising

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Chamber celebrates local businesses

Connor Lalande Pontiac February 22, 2022 Business owners, politicians, artists and other community members joined in a celebration of Pontiac’s business community at a gala hosted by the Pontiac Chamber of Commerce in Fort Coulonge on Saturday evening. The event

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Pontiac Youth Council Returns for 2023

Connor Lalande Pontiac February 13, 2022 The MRC Pontiac Youth Council met for its first official sitting and swearing in ceremony on February 13 at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay. Several mayors attended the event as well as MRC

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B’nai Brith camp fire under investigation

Brett Thoms Quyon February 12, 2023 MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police say they are investigating a suspicious fire that occurred Sunday morning at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa in Quyon. B’nai Brith Canada is a Jewish service organization and advocacy group

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Overview of MRC Pontiac’s residual waste management

Pierre Cyr Fort-Coulonge February 12, 2023 The Government of Quebec requires that each MRC develop a plan de gestion des matières résiduelles (PGMR); a waste management plan, containing objectives to ultimately reduce environmental impacts from residual waste management, increase recycling

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Scholarship in honour of Maurice Beauregard

Zainab Al-Mehdar Campbell’s Bay February 1, 2022 Inspired by the late Maurice Beauregard’s love of serving and continuously advocating for the community, his family has created an annual graduation award for students in the Pontiac. The memorial award is called

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