MONTREAL (AP) — Wildfires burning in Quebec forced the evacuation of inmates from a maximum security prison, federal corrections officials confirmed Sunday, as favorable winds bolstered efforts to ...

On December 14, 2025, Sylvain Loiselle, an inmate from Port-Cartier Institution, died while in our custody of apparent natural causes.

A two-spirit inmate at Port-Cartier Institution, a maximum security penitentiary on Quebec's North Shore, says their arm was broken by a correctional officer and they didn't receive proper medical ...

PORT-CARTIER, QC, Nov. 13, 2025 /CNW/ - On November 5, 2025, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, contraband and unautorized items were seized at Port-Cartier Institution, a maximum-security ...

The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) criticized several shortcomings linked to the "historic" evacuation of 223 inmates from Port-Cartier, a maximum-security prison in Quebec's Côte-Nord ...

Port-Cartier, Que. officials say forest fire situation unchanged after evacuations MONTREAL — Forest fires that prompted a partial evacuation of the north shore city of Port Cartier, Que., are holding ...

PORT-CARTIER, QC, June 23, 2024 /CNW/ - Given the intensification of forest fires in the City of Port-Cartier, in Quebec, an evacuation order was issued on Friday June 21, which included the area in ...

About 1,000 residents who were evacuated Thursday from their homes in Port-Cartier, on Quebec's North Shore, due to forest fires can now return home. However, the city has not lifted its state of ...

This July 2, 2023, file photo shows firefighters battling wildfires in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec about 650 kms north of Montreal. CARLO ZAGLIA General Directorate for Civil Pr As ...

Forest fires that prompted a partial evacuation of the north shore city of Port Cartier, Que., are holding steady, officials said Saturday as they extended a local state of emergency put in place when ...