Last week the provincial authorities made a gargantuan statement.  The CAQ’s golden boy for the Outaouais, Mathieu Lacombe, along with newly christened Health Minister Christian Dubé, announced that there was a 600 bed hospital destined for the region, but were

Since the government has chosen to divide up regions across the province by their relative “danger zone”, I’ve been playing Kenny Loggins non-stop. We’re barrelling towards the upper reaches of these coloured zones, with Gatineau and the surrounding area being

Thanksgiving is approaching this weekend, and it’s likely one that no one is going to forget. Infections have been surging across the province and restrictions are ramping up in the hardest hit areas, like Montreal, Quebec City and as of

Last week’s news cycle was especially lively, with things kicking off again in Ottawa, starting with a throne speech. There are plenty of notable new announcements to discuss, as well as a lot of old ones. In the former category,

Well, it’s happened. It appears that now there’s a COVID case that’s been confirmed in the MRC. I say appears because the news wasn’t revealed through formal channels. The woman who tested positive, who works for the local health authority

Over the weekend there was a significant disruption to the emergency and intensive care units at the Gatineau Hospital. Nurses in both departments staged a sit-in on Friday morning to protest chronic short-staffing issues, which resulted in short breaks in

Ah, Labour Day weekend, the “official” end of summer and the return of routine.Normally this week, folks around these parts would be coming off a high from the Shawville Fair with memories of lineups, livestock and for the adults, plenty

It’s that time of year again, time to pack your offspring on a big yellow bus and hope that for the duration of the day that they are learning something. With everything that’s been going on for these past few

If this column seems more disjointed and meandering than usual, it’s because I made the mistake of watching the finale of the Conservative Party’s leadership race and I am currently running on fumes. Originally scheduled to start early Sunday evening,

Quebec’s language police published a report last week that gasp people are speaking English on the job in La Belle Province. The Office of the French Language released the 75-page document, which they commissioned from the Institut de la statistique