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Les techniciens en explosifs de la Sûreté du Québec sont sur place. 😳
La découverte de produits dangereux dans un local du Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, en Montérégie, a provoqué l'évacuation complète du campus principal, en fin d’avant-midi ce mardi 20 octobre.
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Dans une publication diffusée en après-midi sur Facebook, le Cégep indique avoir alerté le Service de sécurité incendie et la Sûreté du Québec dès qu’il a été mis au courant de la situation, avant de lancer ses procédures d’évacuation. Un périmètre de sécurité a été installé autour du campus, situé au 3000, avenue Boullé.
« Tous les étudiants et les membres du personnel sont en sécurité et aucune personne n’a été incommodée », a souligné l'établissement scolaire.
La Sûreté du Québec a reçu l’appel du Cégep vers 11 h 45, a confirmé à Narcity Québec la sergente Valérie Beauchamp, porte-parole de la SQ. Selon elle, le produit était entreposé dans un local de l’établissement, et l’évacuation s’est faite rapidement.
« Les techniciens en explosifs de la Sûreté du Québec sont en intervention présentement pour tenter de neutraliser le produit dangereux », a-t-elle expliqué, précisant que l’opération est toujours en cours et qu’aucun autre détail ne peut être donné pour le moment.
La nature exacte du produit n’a pas été dévoilée.
De son côté, le Cégep assure qu’il « collabore pleinement avec les autorités compétentes et suit l’évolution de la situation de près ».
Dans un avis publié sur ses réseaux sociaux, la Ville de Saint-Hyacinthe indique que le secteur est fermé à tous les véhicules aux trois intersections suivantes :
Les équipes d’urgence sont toujours sur place.

Par précaution, les cours sont annulés pour le reste de la journée dans l’ensemble des campus du Cégep, et non seulement au campus principal. La Ville précise que la suspension s’applique aussi aux cours du soir.
Des navettes d’autobus ont été mises en place pour permettre à la communauté collégiale de quitter les lieux.
Les personnes qui ont dû laisser leurs effets personnels sur place devront patienter un peu. Le Cégep promet de tenir la communauté étudiante et les membres du personnel au courant des prochaines étapes, dont la façon de récupérer leurs affaires.
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It was after dark last Wednesday when a drone dropped silently from the sky over the special handling unit of a maximum-security prison in Quebec.
Slipping into the gap between the chain-link fencing and the window — which was broken from the inside — it delivered its contraband contents to the man waiting within: a McDonald's meal and a bottle of alcohol.
Prison guards making the rounds in the morning found the intoxicated inmate along with the remains of his late-night snack.
Frédérick Lebeau, national president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, said the fact that this happened in this particular high-security unit is a warning.
"It's kind of a funny thing, the McNugget trio … but it could be worse. It could be firearm, it can be a ceramic knife," he said.
"We are seeing an increase of violence in every institution in this country."
Lebeau said security cameras on the outside of the Regional Reception Centre at Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., failed to capture the drone drop. Counter-drone technology also did not pick up the intrusion.
Drone deliveries of contraband are an ongoing problem at prisons across the country.
Correctional Service Canada uses measures like radio frequency detection to alert staff when a drone is in the area. Lebeau said that technology is not sophisticated enough to catch the newer drones.
A spokesperson for Correctional Service Canada said incidents like this "underscore the need for ongoing investment in technologies and infrastructure."
Kevin Antonucci said in an email that the correctional service is implementing "physical mitigation measures" such as nets at the Regional Reception Centre.
"These measures are designed to disrupt and prevent the delivery of contraband, such as drugs, weapons, and other prohibited items that can threaten the safety of staff, inmates, and the public," he wrote.
Lebeau said there were stepped-up measures in place after the incident became public, but extra outdoor patrols at the facility were ended on Monday.
He said the federal government needs to spend a lot more money to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
"We need to take it seriously," he said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 20, 2026.
By Sarah Ritchie | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
U.S. President Donald Trump is backing down on a threat to ban Bombardier Inc. plane sales in the United States.
Trump said Monday night in Wichita, Kan., that he's changed his view of the Quebec-based business jet maker as a purely Canadian company and does not want to follow through on "hurting" it, given its presence in the city, where the company employs 1,500 workers.
Wichita serves as the seat of its defence division, and is one of several states where Bombardier counts about 3,500 American employees in total.
Kansas, where farmers have felt the cost of the Iran war in higher diesel prices, has turned into a political battleground as Republicans and Democrats fight for control of the typically red state ahead of next month's midterm elections.
Last month, Trump suggested he would bar Bombardier's business in the United States unless it moved its operations there, despite the harm experts said such a move would inflict on American workers.
Bombardier shares rose $9.10 or about three per cent to $320.57 by midday Tuesday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 20, 2026.
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By Christopher Reynolds | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.