Author: Marie Gionet
Clarendon mayoral candidate Gerald Dagg talks about his election campaign. CHIP101.9 · Interview – Gerald Dagg – election
At the last MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting of this term on October 6, council passed a resolution requesting that the provincial authority that oversees firefighter training in the province, L’École nationale des pompiers (ENP), translate two training modules into English. Though the majority of the school’s programs are available in both languages, two […]
The two candidates for mayor in Fort-Coulonge, Christine Francoeur and Gilles Beaulieu, had a 50 minute discussion on the different issues facing the municipality. The pair both ran for the same council seat in the 2017 elections, where Francoeur prevailed with nearly 79% of the vote. She appealed to the pride of the residents of […]
Police officers the MRC Pontiac station are in possession of two firearms which were found with a holster on Hwy. 148 in Mansfield-et-Pontefract on October 17. Anyone who has lost their firearms is asked to contact the Sûreté du Québec at 819-648-2141 to recover them.
One-term Clarendon councillor Ed Walsh is looking to take the top seat in the municipality after outgoing Mayor John Armstrong announced that he wouldn’t seek re-election. He will face off against Gerald Dagg, the former Mayor of Rapides des Joachims who ran against Armstrong in 2017, finishing with roughly 40% of the vote. Walsh has […]
Clarendon mayoral candidate Ed Walsh talks about his election campaign. CHIP101.9 · Interview – Ed Walsh – election
The discussion between the candidates for mayor of Mansfield-et-Pontefract gave rise to more agreements than differences between the two candidates, Sandra Armstrong and Kathleen Bélec. This was the case, among other things, regarding the municipal collaboration between Mansfield and Fort-Coulonge. The two believe that it is not necessary to merge the two municipalities, as had […]
CHIP 101.9 spoke with the promoters of the relaunch at the Davidson industrial site to have them explain the state of the project and the actions they have taken in recent months. The principal man behind the project, Bruno St-Cyr was joined by fellow promoter Pascal Dupuis, the president of JR Mécanique Group, the owners […]
The Sûreté du Québec have arrested one man and seized narcotics following a raid on a home in Fort Coulonge on October 13. During the search of a home on rue Graveline in Fort Coulonge, police seized more than 430 methamphetamine tablets and more than 95 grams of cannabis. A 43 year-old man was arrested […]
Investigators from the Sûreté du Québec specializing in the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet, with the collaboration of investigators from the MRC Pontiac station, arrested a man from Otter Lake for child pornography offences that are alleged to have occurred between 2011 and 2021. Archille Belland, 56, appeared at the Gatineau courthouse yesterday […]
