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November 19, 2025

Opinion

And there it was, gone

This is National Newspaper Week, and it arrives at a time when newspapers are in crisis. Communities across the country are waking up to the

On reconciliation

A local farmer once told me the story of how his ancestors came to be here. As I remember it, his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was awarded a

Letters to the Editor – September 20, 2023

CISSSO’s centralized administration fails the Pontiac An open letter to Christian Dubé, Quebec’s Minister of Health and Social Services Dear Minisiter, In 2015 the CSSS

Marking time

Long before the company formerly known as Facebook appropriated the term “Meta” as its moniker, it meant something more. Or, at least, it was supposed

Fresh air

Summer in the Pontiac had many encouraging highlights. From Canada Day celebrations to community barbecues, from baseball tournaments to fishing derbies, people were out in

The smell test

Missing from the discussion on whether to build a garbage incinerator in the Pontiac has been a factual information base. Last week’s decision by Pontiac

And there it was, gone

This is National Newspaper Week, and it arrives at a time when newspapers are in crisis. Communities across the country are waking up to the news that their local paper has closed up shop, once and for all. Just as

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Letters to the Editor – September 27, 2023

Money up in smoke Dear Editor, I have been reading the news items about the proposed garbage incinerator in the Pontiac with increasing amazement. Certainly people could be concerned about air pollution. The notion that these things emit gas that

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On reconciliation

A local farmer once told me the story of how his ancestors came to be here. As I remember it, his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was awarded a plot of land after the area was surveyed in the 1830s. The man set off

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Letters to the Editor – September 20, 2023

CISSSO’s centralized administration fails the Pontiac An open letter to Christian Dubé, Quebec’s Minister of Health and Social Services Dear Minisiter, In 2015 the CSSS du Pontiac was fused with five other hospitals to create the CISSS de l’Outaouais. Most

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Marking time

Long before the company formerly known as Facebook appropriated the term “Meta” as its moniker, it meant something more. Or, at least, it was supposed to. Meta meant the explicit details within the margins. The family birthdays written in the

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Letters to the Editor – September 13, 2023

Something smells Dear Editor, As a former land owner and developer in the Pontiac at Clarendon Point, I have one question to ask regarding the ‘proposed’ road ruining and smoke emitting garbage Incinerator, planned for the MRC. That ONE question

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Fresh air

Summer in the Pontiac had many encouraging highlights. From Canada Day celebrations to community barbecues, from baseball tournaments to fishing derbies, people were out in the fresh air enjoying the best the Pontiac has to offer. The weather was strange

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The smell test

Missing from the discussion on whether to build a garbage incinerator in the Pontiac has been a factual information base. Last week’s decision by Pontiac County mayors to go ahead with the development of a business plan on the project

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Letters to the Editor – August 23, 2023

Revel in the good life Dear Editor, Imagine living in a country where the political parties are so divided that members of one party can’t bring themselves to say anything positive about the other. Imagine if one party had lost

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