Why do we walk?
December 2, 2025
It was a familiar scene at the Pontiac Hospital on Sunday afternoon. A crowd gathered with homemade cardboard protest signs, made soggy by the snowfall,
It was a familiar scene at the Pontiac Hospital on Sunday afternoon. A crowd gathered with homemade cardboard protest signs, made soggy by the snowfall,
It’s not yet December and it’s already starting to feel like Groundhog Day – the Bill Murray version where he becomes trapped in a time
On Thursday evening, MRC Pontiac warden Jane Toller was sworn in officially for her third term at the helm of county politics. A quick check
Contrary to the common advice given for how to maintain a polite conversation, it seems talking about money, in concrete, specific terms, is in fact
In a surprising plot twist, this spring’s federal Conservative candidate Brian Nolan was elected mayor in Chelsea, one of the communities of our federal riding
On Sunday, the surgical ward at the Pontiac Hospital was named in honour of Dr. Earle Potvin, a surgeon family physician who’s healed generations of
This Wednesday evening, THE EQUITY is hosting a Conversation with the Candidates running to be MRC Pontiac’s next warden. We’re hosting the public event at
Last week, members of the public got to hear a presentation regarding the potential for integrating fire services throughout the Pontiac region. Put on by
Congratulations are in order to the five mayors and the 57 of 102 councillors across the county who on Friday at 4:30 p.m. secured their
Federal public safety minister Gary Anandasangaree recently got himself into a bit of a pickle, when an overly-candid conversation he had with a tenant about
It was a familiar scene at the Pontiac Hospital on Sunday afternoon. A crowd gathered with homemade cardboard protest signs, made soggy by the snowfall, to express dissent of another Quebec healthcare policy – this time its controversial Law 2.
It’s not yet December and it’s already starting to feel like Groundhog Day – the Bill Murray version where he becomes trapped in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over again, and soon realizes his desperate attempts
On Thursday evening, MRC Pontiac warden Jane Toller was sworn in officially for her third term at the helm of county politics. A quick check of the archives and yep, it was yours truly who covered her first inauguration for
Contrary to the common advice given for how to maintain a polite conversation, it seems talking about money, in concrete, specific terms, is in fact key to building relationships of trust. That should be the takeaway for anybody who paid
In a surprising plot twist, this spring’s federal Conservative candidate Brian Nolan was elected mayor in Chelsea, one of the communities of our federal riding that reliably swings Liberal. And it wasn’t close. Nolan won with 62 per cent of
On Sunday, the surgical ward at the Pontiac Hospital was named in honour of Dr. Earle Potvin, a surgeon family physician who’s healed generations of people in this community. Dr. Potvin retired from practicing medicine a few years ago after
This Wednesday evening, THE EQUITY is hosting a Conversation with the Candidates running to be MRC Pontiac’s next warden. We’re hosting the public event at École secondaire Sieur-de-Coulonge in Mansfield. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and our live stream, which
Last week, members of the public got to hear a presentation regarding the potential for integrating fire services throughout the Pontiac region. Put on by staff from the MRC, the evenings were granular in their detail about how the costs
Congratulations are in order to the five mayors and the 57 of 102 councillors across the county who on Friday at 4:30 p.m. secured their seats for another four years. Acclamation, in many cases, could be seen as a vote
Federal public safety minister Gary Anandasangaree recently got himself into a bit of a pickle, when an overly-candid conversation he had with a tenant about the government’s gun buyback program was leaked to a firearm lobby group. Whoopsie daisy, that’s
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