Comments Off on Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Damage to Concordia in Response to Repression
Apr062026
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A week of student strikes having just ended, this is a claim for a series of direct actions that spanned the course of the past two years including three nocturnal attacks. Pieces of Concordia University infrastructure were destroyed at a variety of sites. Based on their own estimates these damages cost the school hundreds of thousands of dollars.
These attacks were not done because of Concordia’s investments or ties. This was all done because of their attempts to pound their students into submission. These nocturnal attacks are being announced to erase any doubt in the simple minds of the university administrators who will do anything and waste all their money and resources just to chase after some authoritarian fantasy of an obedient consumer-student, administrators who have minds that are obsessed with their own ideologies, who live in echo chambers where their rich friends cheer them on and leave them out to dry when they see no results, and who throw tantrums when their perfect vision of order is disturbed time and time again despite the money they have wasted on their peanut-brained private security apparatus. We laugh at you because you waste your time on the hopeless dream of all tyrants while barely deserving such a title in your sandcastle empire. You do not understand that love for the world and the refusal to accept the abuse, brutalization, and slaughter of other humans is an eternal human tendency that will endlessly replenish the pool of people struggling for freedom. This human nature has never been stopped by such pitiable punishments and will renew itself endlessly and pour out of any and all cracks which we will make ourselves if we have to.
This was very easy to do. The nights were so quiet and peaceful. The air was fresh and cold. Whenever I fell upon a police cruiser leaving the site of an attack they didn’t even pay any attention to me. During the next period of student protests and before if need be, I hope more people will join me in responding to any repression blow for blow. Every person must take up these small and easy attacks when the time comes. Remember that no one will ask you to do this or get it started for you. You will need to find the power in yourself to step into the revolutionary wilderness and to never turn back.
If they insist on their authority, lost in their delusions of grandeur, let them face that grand destiny of all rulers who stubbornly held tight on their grip and refused to loosen their fists. To desire to be king forever leaves each to their own kingdom of ashes. They can govern that if they’d like.
Comments Off on Artistic Resistance Call: Saint-Con 2026
Mar282026
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Comrades of Montreal, we share this call from “la Zone” in France. The brown plague knows no borders. The neo-Nazi trolls harassing us use the same codes as the North American far-right. This creative resistance is an echo of your own struggles.
Since 2001, laZone.org has been an underground literary site with a resolutely anti-racist and anti-fascist editorial line. Every year, we host Saint-Con: a call for entries based on a simple principle: “On April 10th, for Saint-Con, I burn an asshole (un con)…” and spread the word far and wide across your networks!
Following our recent trailers, we are being swamped by neo-Nazi trolls. We call on anyone who uses the pen as a weapon to join this counter-offensive. Respond to hatred with radical, dark, or absurd literature.
Deadline: Publication starts April 10th, 2026.
Rules: Dark, violent, or absurd stories (1,000 to 20,000 words).
Submission: Via laZone.org with the hashtag #SaintCon2026.
Moderation: Zero tolerance for racist, fascist, homophobic, or sexist content.
While our comrades in the so-called United States are gaining well-deserved traction for their resistance against ICE, Solidarity Across Borders (SAB) wants to highlight the atrocities committed by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA).
Violent border control is inherent to genocidal settler colonies like the United States and Canada. While it might be tempting to convince ourselves that Canada is an exception to brutal state-sanctioned violence against migrants, it couldn’t be further from the truth.
Our very own “made in Canada” Border Services Agency also detains children with their families, arrests people in front of their children, violently barges into their homes at night, injures them during arrests and refuses to provide them with medical care, enters hospitals to detain people and handcuffs them to their bed, and brutalizes them with impunity. Yet the myth of Canadian exceptionalism paints Canada as a tolerant and welcoming country.
While a lot of outrage has been (deservedly) directed at Garda for collaborating with ICE in US detention centers, it is worth noting that Garda guards have been contracted at the Laval Immigration Holding Center and have oppressed our comrades who were detained for several years now. Garda guards have consistently refused SAB members from bringing essential items such as toothbrushes and shampoo for our comrades on the inside and have proudly exhibited “thin red line” (CBSA’s version of the thin blue line for Blue Lives Matter) pins on their vests.
It would be hypocritical for us to point at the United States’ cruel treatment of migrants while allowing ourselves to be blinded by the illusion that Canada is somehow better.
No matter who operates the detention centers and no matter in which country they are located, borders and immigration detention have always been death machines. Garda is just a symptom of the problem; the real problem is that borders exist at all.
As we mobilize in solidarity with our neighbors, we must not forget resistance here is also crucial. Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, Canada has refused entry to thousands of people and deported thousands more to the countries they fled, despite knowing full well that their lives were endangered. Bill C-12, which is currently in front of the Senate, would only further close the border, so that virtually no one coming from the United States will be able to make a refugee claim.
It is urgent that we gain an understanding of our own brutal border control regime so that we may mobilize in solidarity with ALL undocumented migrants and migrants with temporary and precarious status in Canada.
Comments Off on The girls don’t want rights, they want freedom ! Coordinated attacks on GardaWorld: 3 sites vandalized
Mar112026
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8) and International Day Against Police Brutality (March 15), the group Witches Against Power (WAP) simultaneously attacked the facades of three buildings, all linked to the company GardaWorld. This action is a response to the call sent by the River’s Uprisings to attack the architects of the end of the world, to interrupt the normality of domination.
The first site, located downtown (1390 Barré Street), is one of the company’s headquarters, where many armored vehicules dedicated to the transportation of cash are parked. The windows have been coated with a potion of acid and the walls, sprayed with paint. Cameras have been destroyed and the door lock is now filled with crazy glue. The other two sites are the private residencies of two board administrators : François Plamondon (residing at 4450 Sherbrooke Street West) et Jean-Luc Landry (residing at 90 Willowdale Avenue). Their houses have been covered with paint and messages over their entire length. Board members of GardaWorld are not accomplices, they’re perpetrators of the horrors we’re witnessing. Their front doors will be easier to wash than their consciences. The paint on their windows will go away, while the blood on their hands won’t.
GardaWorld is a Quebec company playing an increasingly important and controversial role in the international private security sector. Since 2022, the company has received more than 300 millions of dollars from the Quebec government and 26 millions of dollars from the canadian government (Observatoire pour la justice migrante, 2025). Our « very own company » provides security staff at the Everglades prison in Florida – also known as Alligator Alcatraz – a detention center for migrants, where people who’ve been kidnapped by ICE in the United States are sent. The company is also in charge of surveilling so-called « high-risk » migrants at the Immigration Detention Center of Laval. Here and abroad, GardaWorld has been rooted for years in the immigration detention system. The company watches, controls and imprisons bodies. It reinforces, hardens and militarizes borders. But our sisterhood doesn’t recognize any of them.
Every year in the West, March 8 becomes this day of celebration of women, of festivities even ! We’re offered flowers, we get Facebook posts dedicated to us, we highlight the progress made by companies on their “equity, diversity, inclusion” policies. We hear ridiculous things like “behind every great man, there’s a woman”. We emphasize the “brave resiliency of women in war-torn countries”. But we don’t give a shit about your flowers or your compliments. We don’t want any of these rights that you grant us, nor any other fake form of recognition for that matters. Neither lady cop, nor girlboss, nor stateswoman, we don’t see our integration to “male fields”, as gains from our struggles, but like the bars of a golden cage keeping us at bay of what really matters.
Far from being History’s passive victims, women have been and will still be pillars of the resistance worldwide. We hold camps and fallback positions, just like we hold baricades and frontlines. We are political subjects capable of attack, and what we aim for is nothing less but freedom. Think of that night’s action as proof of that last statement.
Fuck GardaWorld. Fuck the police. Fuck ICE. Fuck borders.
Fuck the control and surveillance of bodies : ours, and all our sisters’.
On March 3, The Tyee, an independent media outlet based in British Columbia, published an article by journalist Rachel Gilmore proving that activists from the Frontenac Active Club (FAC) regularly trained at Alpha Athletika, a gym in Saint-Léonard, apparently at the invitation of former Olympian Giulio Zardo, who was employed there as a coach.
We welcome the publication of this article and thank Rachel for her work, hoping that other journalists will finally also start taking these issues seriously.
The gym administrators told Rachel Gilmore that they were completely unaware of this situation, that the FAC training sessions (documented on the group’s Telegram channel) took place outside of regular opening hours, and that they had dismissed Giulio Zardo as soon as they found out. We have no reason to doubt their good faith.
The article provides convincingly evidence that Zardo participated in these training sessions and posed for propaganda photos with the white supremacist group. We have already mentioned Giulio Zardo in 2021 article, based on revelations made to us by a dirtbag from Atalante Québec’s entourage, but we have never found conclusive evidence of his active involvement in Québec’s neo-fascist milieu. That has now been remedied.
Giulio Zardo trains at Alpha Athletika in Saint-Léonard, where he was employed as a coach until March 3, 2026. On the right, we see Shawn Beauvais MacDonald, the de facto leader of the Frontenac Active Club. Photo taken from the Tyee article.Rachel Gilmore and Elizabeth Simons (Canadian Anti-Hate Network) identified Giulio Zardo in propaganda photos posted on the Frontenac Active Club’s Telegram channel. Photo the Tyee article.Giulio Zardo identified in propaganda photos published on the Frontenac Active Club’s Telegram channel. Photo taken from the Tyee article.
The Tyee article omits some information that we feel is worth mentioning.
First, it should be noted that in addition to Shawn Beauvais MacDonald, who now serves as the group’s leader, another FAC member, Raphaël Dinucci, has been appearing in public over the past year (as recently as December 2025). It seemed as though he had withdrawn somewhat from this tiny community, since his girlfriend was expecting a baby and apparently gave birth in December, but it would appear that he has not learned his lesson and is digging in.
Group photo of the Frontenac Active Club, with associates and supporters, taken at the Alpha Athletika gym in Saint-Léonard and posted on the group’s Telegram channel on December 31, 2025. Raphaël Dinucci, from Laval, is on the left, with his face exposed.Photo posted on the Frontenac Active club’s Telegram channel on August 22, 2025. Raphaël Dinucci is standing at the back on the left with his face exposed. Note the Nazi salute on the right.
We also identified Martin Brouillette in other group photos, as we previously mentioned in our August 2024 article about the FAC. On the day that article was published, Brouillette wrote to us requesting that we remove his home address “for the safety of [his] young children” and asked, “What would you want in return?”
First of all, his children have nothing to fear, but, in any case, it would appear that the safety of his children is not enough of a priority to bring him to sever his ties with the neo-Nazis once and for all, since he still openly displays his support for Active Clubs on his Facebook page and was still posing (with his face blurred) in FAC propaganda photos in October 2024 (two months after the publication of our article).
To date, the cover illustration on Martin Brouillette’s Facebook page depicts a pile-up, with the words “Active Club.”Group photo of the Frontenac Active Club taken at the Alpha Athletika gym in Saint-Léonard and posted on the group’s Telegram channel in October 2024. Martin Brouillette is framed.Martin Brouillette mugs in the mirror. Note that he is wearing the same T-shirt as in the previous photo.Martin Brouillette, framed, recognizable by his distinctive tattoo sleeve, at a training session with members and associates of the Frontenac Active Club (including Alex Vriend, bald) at the Alpha Athletika gym in Saint-Léonard, probably being trained by Giulio Zardo (not pictured).
As for Shawn Beauvais MacDonald, we still don’t know whether the management of the Nautilus Plus gyms in LaSalle and Plateau Mont-Royal have finally decided to ban him from their facilities…
A photo of the leader of the Frontenac Active Club, Shawn Beauvais MacDonald, at Nautilus Plus in LaSalle wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of Adolf Hitler, on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday.Numerous steps have been taken to alert the administration of the Nautilus Plus gym to the fact that a notorious neo-Nazi is using their facilities, where he ostentatiously displays Nazi symbols.
Finally, for those who still doubt the neo-Nazi nature of this project, we reproduce below two examples of posts from the FAC’s Telegram channel, administered by Beauvais MacDonald. We could show dozens more just like this, shared from channels with names as blunt as “Waffen SS Québec.”
This photo and accompanying quote from Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party’s Minister of Propaganda, was published on the Frontenac Active Club’s Telegram channel in September 2025.
Post by the Waffen SS Québec channel on Telegram, shared by the Frontenac Active Club.
Comments Off on “FUCK TON NOUVEAU MONDE”: Vandalism at Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Downtown Montreal Offices
Feb272026
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Red spray paint spelling “FUCK TON NOUVEAU MONDE” (translation: fuck your new world), and a large amount of green paint were recently seen on Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Griffintown offices. Nouveau Monde Graphite is a Quebec company specialized in graphite mining and refinement. They plan to build the world’s first all-electric open-pit mine a couple hours north of Montreal, in St Michel des Saints, with construction projected to begin this year.
Over the weekend in Hochelaga, a company van belonging to ARA Robotique was burned.
ARA’s drones are equipped with advanced sensors and AI for real-time data analysis. Last year, the Quebec government awarded ARA and Laflamme Aero a subsidy of $8.8 million. These two companies produce drones and remotely controlled helicopters designed to enhance border surveillance.
The Quebec subsidy aligns with pending federal legislation aimed at intensifying Canadian border monitoring, as well as calls from the Trump administration for Canada to strengthen its border security.
With ongoing ICE raids in the U.S. and the expansion of rapid-response networks to protect those targeted by ICE, it is time to target companies and individuals who actively develop technologies designed to control people’s movements across borders.
Comments Off on Love Your Neighbors, Not Your Cameras!
Feb192026
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Comrades, the time is now! The SPVM hath declared a registry of cameras, with nefarious AI to track our every move! We shall not bow to their surveillance! Take up these posters (FR/EN), these flyers, and these stickers, and spread them far and wide to ignite the flame of resistance! Quickly, fellow travelers, let us strike the ever-watchful eye!
Comments Off on [Video] Tear Them Down: CAMOVER 2026
Feb032026
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This winter, teams got together to begin a new season of Camover. Some of them decided to film a few of their achievements.
The SPVM has implemented AI surveillance software that could integrate thousands of cameras both public and private. For attack on the infrastructures of techno-dystopia! Fewer prying eyes, more dead circuits on pavement.
2nd round: from Valentine’s Day to March 15th.
*Always think carefully before filming yourself during an action.
Looking at the current state of the world, it is all too easy to fall into despair and hopelessness. At best, things feel heartbreaking, and at worst, feel debilitatingly bleak. That said, this only part of the story. However bad things may seem, there is always possibilities for taking action. These possibilities might not be immediately obvious and likely aren’t easy, but nonetheless they are there and we want to help (however modestly) to make things happen.
Freedonia offers two categories of grants (small and large) to initiatives based in Canada that broadly reflect anarchist principles (i.e. equality, mutual aid, autonomy, direct action, solidarity etc.). We care less about labels, and more about what you do and how you do it. Our small grants offer funding of $2,000-$8,000, and our large grants offer funding of $8,001-$20,000. The majority of the grants we award fall into the small category, while the number of grants awarded that fall into the large category is much more limited (1-2 each year). We hope to receive both small and large grant applications, but want to be transparent that the large grants are more competitive.
We invite organizations, groups, and projects that embody the values of Freedonia to apply to our 2026 funding round. We support organizing that is oriented towards anti-authoritarian social change, and aim to fund projects that are committed to taking action outside of traditional channels and unlikely to be eligible to get funding elsewhere. We prioritize funding grassroots initiatives and autonomous undertakings, and are less likely to provide funding to organizations connected to established institutions and/or have large operating budgets.
At this moment, we are particularly enthusiastic to fund projects related to anarchist infrastructure broadly defined (i.e. including but not limited to material infrastructure). We want to support initiatives that build collective capacity; strengthen people’s long-term ability to organize; and expand the terrain of struggle.
We will be hosting an online info/Q&A session mid-February to discuss this year’s funding round and to answer any question you might have – keep an eye out for more details coming soon!
