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Large department stores that include groceries as part of their inventory are allowed to open their doors to customers because they fall under the provincial government’s essential services category for retailers during the lockdown. But council is hearing complaints about those same stores allowing customers to also purchase non-essential items like furniture or home electronics.

Depuis le début de la saison, les policiers sensibilisent les motoneigistes circulant hors sentier sur des terres privées, causant par la même occasion des bris importants à certaines installations. Ainsi, les motoneigistes désirant circuler hors sentier ou pratiquer communément le hors-piste, doivent préalablement s’informer des endroits où il est possible de le faire légalement au Québec.

A three-two majority voted to cancel the publicly funded Russell Transpo service between the township and Ottawa at the last council meeting of 2020. The contract with operator 417 Bus Lines, due to expire in 2023, required the council to provide six months’ notice of early cancellation, meaning that the agreement would not expire until June 30 this year.

«J’ai maintenant l’opportunité de revenir dans mon coin de pays et de travailler pour ma belle communauté et j’en suis ravi», a déclaré Michel Potvin, dont le cheminement professionnel l’a fait séjourner en divers autres endroits.

Plenty of residents have left signs or posts in their front windows during the pandemic to passersby. Some thank frontline workers for their efforts, others remind people to keep practising safe social distancing protocols, while a handful simply let strangers know they are not alone.

On se rappellera que la Municipalité avait dû aviser les résidents de faire bouillir l’eau entre les 4 et 5 décembre après qu’une entreprise ait illégalement raccordé un système d’eau privé à la distribution municipale. Le personnel de la municipalité a dû faire du porte-à-porte le soir du 4 décembre et le matin du 5 décembre pour informer les résidents de la situation.

“I hope to put the shovel in in September,” Manthas said during a phone interview February 8 from the Gatineau office of the Artist in Residence distillery (AiR). “All the architect plans are all done.”

Grâce au gouvernement du Canada, par l’entremise de la Stratégie des femmes entrepreneures de l’Agence fédérale de développement économique pour le Sud de l’Ontario (FedDev Ontario), la SDCPR investira plus de 250 000 dollars dans le projet Compétences pour réussir en affaires de La Cité.

Most provincial health units, including the EOHU, would return to the government’s colour-coded management system after Tuesday, February 16, depending on COVID trends over the coming days. The government chose not to extend Ontario’s state of emergency past February 9, but stay at home orders would be gradually removed based on a regional approach.

Township council reviewed a brief from Hydro 2000, the municipal electricity service provider, regarding its current cost-of-service review for maintaining the local electricity supply system for the municipality. Hydro 2000 filed its 2020 rates report with the Ontario Energy Board earlier in the year and is now working on its status review of the municipal electricity supply system, including capital expenses needed to maintain the existing infrastructure and do any future upgrades or expansions.