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January 21, 2026

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Editorials

Eighty-six kitchen tables

That’s how many Pontiac kitchen tables hosted dairy farmers as they told their spouses, children, and aging parents that they were closing the doors on

Not the first time, not the last

Renée Nicole Good was a 37-year-old woman, a mother of three, a writer, someone who liked to sing. Her neighbours seemed to like her. She

Resisting the slop

The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year for 2025 was ‘slop’. No, not the food scraps thrown to a pig. But not far off. The

What are we to you?

We’ve recently discovered a massive collection of old film negatives from decades of reporting we’ve done here. We’re slowly working to digitize them. You’ll see

A step in the right direction

At the November public meeting of Pontiac mayors, council announced a decision that could turn out to be a significant step towards greater transparency from

Why do we walk?

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,

Groundhog day 

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

Priorities, priorities

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

Money talks

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

What do you share?

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

Eighty-six kitchen tables

That’s how many Pontiac kitchen tables hosted dairy farmers as they told their spouses, children, and aging parents that they were closing the doors on their generations-old family farm. That’s how many Pontiac farmers were suffocated by Canada’s supply management

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Not the first time, not the last

Renée Nicole Good was a 37-year-old woman, a mother of three, a writer, someone who liked to sing. Her neighbours seemed to like her. She had apparently never been charged with anything beyond a traffic ticket. Her ex-husband described her

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Resisting the slop

The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year for 2025 was ‘slop’. No, not the food scraps thrown to a pig. But not far off. The modern-day slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in

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What are we to you?

We’ve recently discovered a massive collection of old film negatives from decades of reporting we’ve done here. We’re slowly working to digitize them. You’ll see some Christmas moments pulled from this archive shared across the bottom of this newspaper.  Sprinkled

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A step in the right direction

At the November public meeting of Pontiac mayors, council announced a decision that could turn out to be a significant step towards greater transparency from the MRC table.  Mayors passed a new schedule that will see the monthly council meetings

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Why do we walk?

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. 

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Groundhog day 

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

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Priorities, priorities

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

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Money talks

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

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What do you share?

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

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