An anti-fascist source infiltrated the private chat room of Nomos-TV subscribers. What’s on the agenda and within the comfort zone of this “safe space”? The answer is: unbridled xenophobia and Islamophobia; open contempt for the people of Québec, seniors, civic nationalism, and progressive sovereigntists; misogyny and transphobic hatred; and, of course, a constant stream of degrading remarks about migrants and people of color. In a context where certain reactionary elements of the mainstream media, particularly the Québecor empire, play into the hands of these racist activists by offering them a platform, using the pretext of free speech, we are taking the opportunity to present some of the findings from this undercover operation, reminding everyone—once again—that we will never accept the spread of hate speech in our communities, no matter what the useful idiots and apologists may say.
Subterfuge And Complacency: How Hate Speech Is Normalized
It will soon be eight months since we published a detailed exposé about Alexandre Cormier-Denis (ACD), in which we demonstrated the key role played by this ethnonationalist ideologue in Québec’s far-right ecosystem and the deeply racist and xenophobic nature of his political platform. After ten years of this sort of activity, you would think that anything remotely connected to Cormier-Denis and Nomos-TV would be persona non grata in the mainstream media.
While in Québec in 2026 the intense hatred of left-wing voices has become widespread in mainstream culture, the mass of hate speech that ACD pumps out is completely ignored by certain reactionary media personalities, who still choose to hand him the microphone and amplify his message rather than acknowledge what is going here or recognize in any way the work of anti-fascists and progressive journalists.
As a result, ACD and Nomos-TV continue to benefit from an outrageous degree of tolerance—even open sympathy—in certain corners of Québec’s media ecosystem, including Radio X (which has long since become the main mouthpiece for the entire right wing), as well as on platforms such as the YouTube channel Ian & Frank (which leans toward “libertarian” conservatism, and which “Nomosians” openly despise in private) and Radio Ville-Marie, whose director openly displays his affinity with ACD. On April 27, we witnessed a striking example of this complacency. QUB Radio host Benoît Dutrizac invited Cormier-Denis to give his account of what had happened a few days earlier,[1] when a Front antifasciste populaire mobilization at the Nomos-TV studio in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood prevented ACD’s live broadcast.