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TALQ survey invites English-speaking Quebecers to shape the election conversation

Quebec's English-speaking community urged to weigh in on next federal official languages strategy

Decades of fair programs, including a 1968 edition advertising horse drawing, children's races and livestock judging, are laid out with framed schedules and correspondence from the club's archives. Photo: Courtesy

Heritage booth brings Poltimore's history to the fair

Émilie Salesse Gauthier, the ADEQ representative for the Outaouais region, enjoying time at the annual Not Back to School Picnic on September 3. Photo: Jude Osmond

Over 50 families gather for homeschooling picnic as Quebec election kicks off

Quebec's access to information commission, led by president Me Lise Girard, has tabled a 2026 five-year report urging a deep overhaul of the province's outdated access and privacy laws for the AI era, with 74 recommendations now headed to a parliamentary committee. Photo: Courtesy of the report: Transparence et vie privée : protéger la démocratie à l'ère numérique

Quebec watchdog urges deep overhaul of aging access and privacy laws for the digital age

All aboard: Tourisme Outaouais unveils Outaouais Express

Facing a 75 per cent surge in applications, Cégep Heritage College in Gatineau cannot admit more students because Quebec's Law 14 caps enrolment at the province's English colleges, leaving Director General Lisa Peldjak to question where a growing Outaouais population will pursue post-secondary education. Photo: Courtesy of Cégep Heritage College

Demand for English college in Outaouais collides with Quebec's Law 14

UniGym Gatineau will be cutting the ribbon on its new gym at Galeries Aylmer on Saturday, September 12. Photo: Courtesy

UniGym Gatineau: New gymnastics hall launched as school returns

Clothing Collection Returns to Two Gatineau Neighbourhoods

A petition is rallying the Outaouais behind Bill S-229, a Senate bill that would give Gatineau Park its first legal protection by enshrining its boundaries in federal law and making conservation the priority in how the park is managed, before signatures close on October 29. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

A local petition supports the bill that could finally protect Gatineau Park

Drug-related deaths in the Outaouais now claim older, more hidden victims

MRC warden confirms Maniwaki services will continue after town council opposes Gracefield head office expansion

Gatineau Park Visitor Centre (DS) Photo: Gatineau Park

Parking fees coming to the Gatineau Park Visitor Centre

With a basic vet visit at Gatineau's Clinique vétérinaire Eardley now $124 and serious cases running into the thousands, Outaouais pet owners are facing harder choices as care costs rise and a staffing shortage squeezes local clinics. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Rising vet bills are forcing Outaouais pet owners to make hard choices

The Salon du livre de l'Outaouais and Réseau BIBLIO de l'Outaouais present the free Authors' Cycle Route on September 19 along the Véloroute des Draveurs between Blue Sea and Messines, where riders can stop at four lakeside literary halts to hear regional writers Julie-Anne Codaire, Jean-Luc Lacroix, Myriam Legault-Beauregard and Kathia Trottier read work drawn from nature. Photo: Courtesy

Authors line the Véloroute des Draveurs for a free lakeside literary ride

Auditor General Christine Roy has judged Quebec's plan to balance its budget by 2029-2030 credible but precarious, warning it depends on the government finding billions in spending cuts, close to $5 billion in a single year, without saying which programs would be sacrificed to get there. Photo: Courtesy of the Auditor General of Quebec

Quebec's budget adds up, the auditor general says, if the province is ready to cut billions

A public forum in Gatineau on September 26 will bring Algonquin leaders, a scientist and local residents together to examine the contested plan to bury radioactive waste at Chalk River, upstream on the Ottawa River, a project the courts have already sent back to the federal government twice. Photo: Courtesy of École d'été citoyenne

Gatineau forum to examine the Chalk River radioactive waste plan

A cluster of spiny water fleas found on a fishing line. Photo: Carolane Riopel-Leduc

Spiny Water Fleas Gaining Ground in the Gatineau River

First Councillor's Breakfast to Benefit the Lièvre Food Bank

Quebec Elections: PQ leads as campaign kicks off

The investment includes $20 million for the development of the future museum, as well as $890,000 to support its organizational needs over the next two years. Photo: Courtesy of the City of Gatineau.

Nearly $21 million to proceed with the Outaouais Regional Museum

Legionnaires' disease cases in Aylmer have risen to 15 since June 19, more than double the region's usual yearly total, and Santé Québec Outaouais is urging residents to watch for symptoms while investigators work to trace the source. Photo: Courtesy of Health Canada

Legionnaires' disease cases climb to 15 in Aylmer as health officials search for the source

The Outaouais depends on federal government jobs more than any other region in Quebec, and a report from the Observatoire du développement de l'Outaouais warns this reliance is now a serious liability as Ottawa carries out its deepest public service cuts in years. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

The Outaouais leans hardest on government jobs, and the ground is shifting

Consignaction is opening at least four new return locations in Gatineau and restricting Ontario residents to Express Return only, after cross-border traffic overwhelmed its Consignaction+ site at 84 Jean-Proulx Street and left local residents facing lineups of up to an hour. Photo: Tashi Farmilo

Consignaction to open new return locations and restrict Ontario returns amid overwhelming demand in Gatineau