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June 25, 2026

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Healthcare

Province matches techs’ bonus

Radiology technologists in four rural Outaouais hospitals, including the Pontiac Hospital in Shawville, will receive an additional $4,000 bonus, matching the $22,000 bonuses offered previously

Residents launch fundraiser for techs

Local activism group Citizens of the Pontiac is hoping to raise $30,000 to pay Pontiac’s imaging technicians what the province isn’t and keep them from

Bone-headed bonus

Why are radiation technologists working in the Shawville and Wakefield hospitals being offered a smaller bonus for staying put than has been offered to their

The geography of healthcare

It’s very good news that Pontiac Hospital’s medical imaging technicians will receive an $18,000 pay bonus. Congratulations to everyone who made a big noise about

CISSSO hopeful new bonuses will draw more techs to region

CISSSO’s Pontiac director Nicole Boucher-Larivière is hoping the package of financial incentives offered this summer to radiology technologists in the Pontiac will help attract more applications to the region’s hospital.  Last week, four radiology technologists were slated to leave their

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Province matches techs’ bonus

Radiology technologists in four rural Outaouais hospitals, including the Pontiac Hospital in Shawville, will receive an additional $4,000 bonus, matching the $22,000 bonuses offered previously to technologists in Gatineau, Hull and Papineau hospitals, per an announcement by the union representing

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Residents launch fundraiser for techs

Local activism group Citizens of the Pontiac is hoping to raise $30,000 to pay Pontiac’s imaging technicians what the province isn’t and keep them from leaving for higher paying jobs in early September.

Read More »

Bone-headed bonus

Why are radiation technologists working in the Shawville and Wakefield hospitals being offered a smaller bonus for staying put than has been offered to their counterparts in other hospitals in the region? What is the basis of this discrimination? It

Read More »

The geography of healthcare

It’s very good news that Pontiac Hospital’s medical imaging technicians will receive an $18,000 pay bonus. Congratulations to everyone who made a big noise about the problem – hospital staff and administrators, doctors, citizen activists, mayors, the warden, and the

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