Dear Editor, Epistemology is the branch of philosophy which deals with asking how do we know what we know? It’s one of those university courses easily dismissed by, ‘When am I ever going to need this in real life?’ The

Dear Editor, Previous Municipality of Pontiac Mayor Roger Larose is demanding an apology from Mayor Joanne Labadie. For 17 months I have sat silently on many occasions, understanding that Madame Labadie, came into office without any municipal experience, even stating

Dear Editor, Regarding the article of March 6 on the community centre delays: Pierre Tabet was given the contract to design, facilitate and oversee the project in its entirety as per Resolution 16-12-3003. In other words, he was the project

Dear Editor, Something’s happening across the river, about an hour upstream from the Pontiac and we should take notice. Starting in the 1950s, ever since the nuclear research facility at Chalk River has been operational, low intensity nuclear waste has

Dear Editor, What is wrong with our mayor? First, in last week’s article, Mayor Labadie claims there are over 4,000 residences “subsidizing” businesses in the municipality. However, according to the 2016 census, there are only 2,664 private dwellings. She indicated

Dear Editor, The new budget in the Municipality of Pontiac was tabled with approximately a 50 per cent increase on business taxes. The mayor’s explanation for the additional taxes on businesses is that she felt that it was unfair to

Dear Editor, Please accept this letter as an open response to Mr. Robbie Beck’s letter to your paper last week under the leader of ‘Surprise and disappointment.’ Since Mr. Beck has chosen to convey his disappointment in regards to my

Dear Editor, My friend, Dave Blackburn, is the Pontiac Conservative candidate for the upcoming election this year. He has a popular Facebook page that has grown considerably over the past few months. I assist in administering it and intend to

Dear Editor, It was with great surprise and disappointment that I read in the Feb. 13 edition of THE EQUITY that Todd Hoffman is the founding member of the People’s Party of Canada for the riding of Pontiac. Although I

Dear Editor, It usually starts like this, some politician quotes statistics that show “Pontiac is the poorest region in Quebec.” But don’t you worry; politicians have the answer – find efficiencies, put our noses to the grindstone and create jobs,