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After deferring requests to add French to all its street signs — and delaying taking action for years — a threat from the Office québécois de la langue française that would result in provincial subsidies being withheld has finally prompted the Town of Hudson to adopt a formal plan to outline how it will conform to the province’s language laws.
The City of Vaudreuil-Dorion has dropped substantially on the Top 100 list of best cities for renters, according to a survey compiled by The Globe and Mail.
After deferring a vote on a bylaw to formally ban swimming at Sandy Beach in July, Hudson council at the end of August opted to drop the regulation all together.
Amid Canada’s intensifying tariff war with the U.S., bond markets that are making mounting government debt more expensive to finance and the cost of living continuing to rise, leaders of all parties in the provincial election campaign are rolling out their election promises. In Vaudreuil-Soulanges, the Quebec Liberal party has made one major commitment — building the long-awaited Highway 20 bypass route through the Dorion section of Vaudreuil-Dorion.
The Town of Hudson wants Santé Québec to reverse course on how it handles 911 calls for non-life-threatening medical emergencies.
About 1,000 protesters and 500 tractors are expected to converge in Rigaud on Sept. 19 as farmers from across Quebec and eastern Ontario step up their efforts to urge the federal government to halt its plans for the proposed Alto high-speed train from Quebec City to Toronto, claiming it would have devastating impacts on some of eastern Canada’s best farmland.
Not sure about you, but my arms are showing a nice degree of toning since falling into the routine of keeping my elbows up all the time — except when relaxing among friends, of course. The new routine is tough, but there is no arguing with the results. It’s a sharper, healthier look. And it bodes well for long-term stamina, a quality, at this stage, that no longer can be taken for granted.
30 of 250 MDs secured so far BRENDA O’FARRELLThe 1019 Report – Local Journalism Initiative The new Vaudreuil-Soulanges Hospital will open its doors in the summer of 2028 with less than half of its needed staff hired, according to a spokesperson with Santé Québec Montérégie-Ouest. And so far, only 30 doctors of the 250 required have been contracted. “On the medical side, 12 per cent of the required physicians have already been hired,” said Anick Drouin, a ministerial and media relations officer with the regional health authority, in response to questions from The 1019 Report. Although an opening date for the hospital has been set for the summer of 2028, the regional health authority did not provide a date when full staffing is expected to be reached. “The recruitment goal is to have 40 per cent of positions filled by the end of the first year of operation,” Drouin said, referring to all job categories, which include medical and non-medical positions. The level of staffing is a serious concern for municipal leaders and business officials in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges area, and is just part of a wider manpower crisis looming for the region. Describing the situation as “very unhelpful” and “disappointing,” the president of the region’s business development agency said the hiring challenge the hospital is facing is just part of the manpower crunch brewing in the region. “We are expecting a major manpower crisis when the hospital opens,” said Danie Deschênes, president of Développement Vaudreuil-Soulanges and mayor of Notre Dame de l’Île Perrot. In February, DEV along with several business owners, publicly called on Santé-Québec to share its hiring plan for the hospital, with Deschênes urging health officials: “Show us your strategy for the hospital.” On Saturday, Deschênes told The 1019 Report Santé-Québec has so far not shared its plan. “What they tell us is that the hiring is going as planned,” Deschênes said in an interview. The Vaudreuil hospital is the first new hospital to be built in Quebec in approximately 30 years that adds beds to the health network, a system that has faced chronic understaffing for years. Just last week, provincial health officials announced the temporary closure of the maternity ward at Hôpital Saint-Eustache due to a shortage of obstetricians and gynecologists. In July, the president of the Quebec Association of Specialists in Emergency Medicine of Quebec issued a warning, as several Montreal-area hospitals experienced serious emergency ward overcapacity levels, highlighting the cause being a combination of higher volumes of patients due to the heat wave and staffing shortages. The new Vaudreuil hospital, which will have 404 beds, 11 surgical suits, an emergency room and a maternity unit, will employ 3,500 people. Of that number, only about 20 per cent — 761 have been opened to applications, Drouin said. And only some of them have been filled in the last two years. “As of June 2024, 761 positions had been posted (almost exclusively clinical roles for 24/7 sectors); 519 were filled, while 242 remained vacant following the posting period,” she stated in an email. “Currently, 842 positions are posted internally,” Drouin said, adding: “Unfilled positions will be posted externally and supported by a recruitment campaign.” Santé-Québec has 16 open employment offers posted online at the moment aiming to fill a wide range of positions linked to the new hospital, including the director of emergency services, pharmacists, nurses, pharmacy technicians and physiotherapists. None of the job postings require English language skills. Online portals are also open to receive inquiries from doctors. As the opening of the hospital gets closer, Deschênes said hiring for non-medical staff threatens to drain workers from area businesses, which are already facing a manpower shortage. That is why DEV is doubling down on its demand that the provincial and federal government give Vaudreuil-Soulanges a special status that would allow it to increase the hiring of foreign workers. Last Februray, DEV made the call for what it called a “territorial exemption” that would exempt employers in the region from changes to immigration policies to ensure against the loss of temporary foreign workers. Faced with mounting opposition to the announced end to its Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ), which allowed workers to be fast-tracked to obtaining residency status, the provincial government temporarily re-instated the program for two years beginning this past July. Deschênes says this region requires a better solution, and said the hospital’s need of thousands of workers, many for non-medical jobs, “will empty our business.” You are unauthorized to view this page.
Residents of the Town of Vaudreuil sur le Lac have blocked the proposed purchase of a wooded area, as 207 signatures were collected on a register Monday, Mayor Mario Tremblay confirmed yesterday.
As the use of electric scooters has seen a dramatic increase in popularity this summer in St. Lazare — generating much public discussion about safety — and while the town’s municipal council could not agree on whether to formally request its public security committee to explore how municipal officials could regulate the use of these personal motorized devices in July, the Sûreté du Québec last week began flagging down kids as they whizzed along bicycle paths and on streets ignoring stops signs, speed limits or found riding the devices without a helmet.