Comments Off on Edmonton Scotiabank Doors Glued and Windows Spray Painted
Sep032025
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
Early in the morning of August 23, the Heritage Village Scotiabank branch (111st & 23ave) in Edmonton had its doors glued shut and windows spray painted with the message “SCOTIABANK FUNDS GENOCIDE”, calling out the bank for its illegal investments in Elbit System, Israel’s largest privately-owned weapons manufacturer. Elbit provides up to 85 percent of the land-based equipment procured by the Israeli military and about 85 percent of its drones.
To any inconvenienced by the actions taken to disrupt the flow of weapons, consider moving your money to a credit union that will not invest it in genocide.
It is all of our obligation to impose material costs on all entities that enable and profit from genocide. Let no bank or branch be allowed to carry on with business as usual while they profit from the slaughter of Palestinians. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Take action, take care.
Wemotaci region in Quebec (wikipedia). On the left, Dave Petiquay from the First Nation MAMO collective, faces Dany Grenier (on the right), forestry entrepreneur from Dolbeau-Mistassini (image by Lisanne Pittikwi on Facebook).
« … the state, the bourgeoisie and even the working class have been constituted in part through the destruction of First Nations, the dispossession of their territories, the extortion of their resources and settler colonialism– Francis Dupuis-Déri et Benjamin Pillet, 2019. L’anarcho-indigénisme. Lux Éditeur, Montréal. p.35
Over the past few weeks, blockades of forestry roads have been carried out in Haute-Mauricie and in the north of Lac-Saint-Jean by the MAMO Alliance (First Nation). These actions, conducted to contest Bill 97 on forestry regime reform, have interrupted or disrupted forestry operations.
Uniting First Nations for Sovereignty and Territory Protection
It was on April 11, 2025 that an assembly was held in La Tuque to found the MAMO Alliance. This alliance, whose name means « Together » in the Atikamekw (Nehiromowin) and Innu (Innu-aimun) languages, aims to bring together First Nations in exercising their sovereignty. It was initiated by the land guardians of Nehirowisiw (Atikamekw), Nitassinan (Innuat) and Ndakina (Abénakis).
Opposition to Bill 97 and Sovereignty
The land guardians express their disagreement with Bill 97, which modifies Quebec’s forestry regime. They believe this law endangers forest caribou and forest sustainability, thus compromising the traditional Indigenous way of life during the climate crisis.
Numerous blockades and demonstrations of sovereignty have generated tensions between Indigenous protesters and (non-Indigenous) forestry workers, also fueling hateful comments on social media. In response to this situation, the Quebec government has promised to negotiate with First Nations to find consensus and consider amendments to the bill.
Traditional Indigenous groups (like the MAMO alliance), who rely on ancestral rights and traditions, maintain that true authority over forestland belongs to families and land guardians. They consider that current band councils, established by the Canadian government’s Indian Act system, do not reflect traditional sovereignty and are perceived as accomplices of the colonial system. These groups believe that band councils cannot negotiate on behalf of all members of the nations.
The Petapan Treaty and Forest Management
This tension between band councils and traditionalists is not new; it also appears in other negotiations, such as the Petapan Treaty. Under negotiation for more than forty years, this draft treaty involves the Petapan Group, which brings together the First Nations of Essipit, Mashteuiatsh and Nutashkuan, as well as Canada and Quebec, and aims to recognize, confirm and protect Innu rights. However, traditionalists oppose this treaty, claiming that the traditional governance of hereditary chiefs and territory guardians is being set aside in favor of band councils.
Conclusion
There will be no reconciliation without reparation. The Canadian and Quebec states were established on the appropriation of Indigenous peoples’ lands and resources. To achieve true reconciliation, it is essential to support and engage in decolonial and environmental struggles. It is crucial to become true allies in this battle to protect the living world. That is to say, to avoid in our relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous people within decolonization movements: « the invisibilization of Indigenous people or the appropriation of their voice, the use of token Indigenous people, the imposition of tactical and strategic choices or a general attitude of guilt relief to give oneself a good conscience » (L’anarcho-indigénisme, p.10)
Footnote:
(1) Unlike other regions of Canada where historic treaties were signed, vast expanses of territory, notably in British Columbia and Quebec, have never been subject to land cession treaties.
On Monday, in New Hazelton four Gitxsan Development Corporation vehicles were burned.
Gitxsan Development Corporation works with McElhaney Geomatics Engineering which had vehicles destroyed by fire in Smithers and Terrace.
McElhaney Geomatics Engineering is contracted to build roads for Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Line (PRGT). More information is available on their involvement in Against Extractivism: PRGT and its Actor
Depuis 1947, le peuple palestinien lutte contre l’occupation et la colonisation de ses terres par l’entité sioniste (connue sous son nom colonial ”Israël”). Alors que la création de cette entité sur des terres volées est facilitée par l’ONU, les Palestinien·nes, dépossédé·es et déplacé·es de force dans des territoires de plus en plus grugés par l’entité sioniste, ne se laissent pas faire et résistent à l’envahisseur. Alors que Gaza était assiégée depuis près de 20 ans, la résistance a culminé le 7 octobre 2023 dans un coup de force. Déterminé à ne tolérer le moindre écart de conduite, l’entité sioniste en a profité pour accélérer ses politiques et pratiques génocidaires contre le peuple palestinien avec la complicité de ses allié·es. Bombardé·es et affamé·es délibérément par l’entité sioniste depuis deux ans, les Palestinien·nes à Gaza luttent pour survivre et continuent de résister, tout comme les Palestinien·nes en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est qui font face à une accélération des attaques des colons et du vol de leurs terres.
Pendant que les Palestinien·nes sonnent l’alarme et implorent le reste du monde à arrêter cette violente machine de guerre qui a déjà fait des dizaines de milliers de martyrs, les gouvernements, incluant le ”Canada” et le ”Québec” enchaînent des déclarations vides de sens sur le « respect du droit international » et la fausse « solution à deux États », tout en continuant à supporter l’entité sioniste financièrement, militairement et politiquement, et en refusant d’imposer quelconque sanction. L’entité sioniste, armée par ses complices occidentaux et impérialistes, est bien décidé à prendre le contrôle complet de la bande de Gaza et à anéantir le peuple palestinien. L’armée d’occupation commet des massacres jour après jour en direct dans l’indifférence. Lorsqu’ils en parlent, les médias invisibilisent la réalité sur le terrain : une occupation militaire et une colonisation brutale de par l’entité sioniste, et une lutte de libération historique d’un peuple contre des puissances coloniales qui assujettissent le monde entier.
Cela fait deux ans que les peuples solidaires de la libération de la Palestine protestent partout dans le monde, en rupture avec leurs gouvernements complices. Les actions se multiplient : manifestations, campements, graffitis, occupations, actions de perturbation et de sabotage, flottilles, caravanes et marches mondiales pour briser le blocus. Continuons nos actions pour mettre fin au génocide en cours et soutenir le peuple palestinien dans sa lutte de libération, pour la justice et la dignité !
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Du 6 au 12 octobre 2025, D4P et la CLAC invitent tous·tes et chacun·e à s’organiser avec sa communauté en vue de provoquer, déranger et perturber pour visibiliser notre refus collectif à la complicité au génocide et rappeler la légitimité de la résistance, sous toutes ses formes, en Palestine et ici.
Alors que la violence et la déshumanisation des vies palestiniennes est devenue honteusement normalisée, la résistance en devient d’autant plus légitime et nécessaire ! Confrontons nos gouvernements à l’insignifiance de leurs actions et à leur complicité active ! Ciblons les profiteurs de guerre, où qu’ils soient dans la vaste toile de complicité : qu’ils produisent des armes, des outils d’intelligence artificielle, des fonds de pensions ou des services d’investissement ! En groupe d’affinités, en comités de quartier, avec nos associations étudiantes, dans nos lieux de travail, attaquons partout, par l’éducation populaire, les manifestations, l’action directe et notre mobilisation généralisée.
Pas de paix tant que Gaza saigne : notre devoir est la résistance, par tous les moyens!
* Cet appel à l’action fait écho à celui lancé le 20 juillet 2025 par six groupes politiques et organisations de résistance à Gaza qui nous demandent d’escalader nos actions pour accentuer la pression sur nos gouvernements complices.
Comments Off on Enbridge Sabotage: Disruption of Service on Line 9B
Aug202025
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
The boreal forest is burning, the water is being poisoned, all the trees are being cut down, and the treaties are being betrayed. The mirage we call “liberal democracy” bows down to the oil lobby. There is talk of new pipelines that will cross the country like scars, new gas projects that will disfigure the land.
Our history has always been that of an extractive colony founded on plunder and dispossession. It’s up to us to put an end to this disaster.
Last night, we attacked line 9B. This pipe of death snakes through lands stolen from Indigenous peoples, transporting the world’s dirtiest bitumen through waterways, cities and our lives. We hit two control valves, destroying the electronic equipment before vanishing into the night.
Now more than a dozen kilometers of pipeline can no longer be controlled by Enbridge. Until these installations are repaired, it is as dangerous as it is illegal to flow oil through them.
We choose to disarm Enbridge because the current system protects profit and lets ecosystems die. We are taking action because every barrel poisons us, kills us, flows against the grain of history. We are those who face the truth, who recognize the urgency of the situation. We choose to obey the love of life and the future.
Line 9B carries the end of the world barrel by barrel. It’s time to take direct aim at the infrastructures that are responsible.
The facilities concerned are at Saint-André d’Argenteuil (45°33’25.1 “N 74°20’53.7 ”W) and Mirabel (45°36’42.3 “N 74°04’46.6 ”W).
Comments Off on “Israel” terrorist, media complicit
Aug192025
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, August 18th, 2025 — it’s with a broken heart and rage in the stomach that autonomous militants targeted Quebecois media tonight, denouncing their biased coverage of the genocide of the Palestinian people, in particular the recent massacre of the Al Jazeera team in Gaza by the Zionist occupation forces. Tonight, we honour our martyred siblings Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohamed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa of Al Jazeera, Sahat Media journalist Mohammed Al-Khali, Saad Jundiya, and the 262 other journalists who have been killed in this inhumane affront against the freedom of the press. This autonomous action to redecorate the office of the Montreal Gazette (MG) was also in response to the call from the Palestinian resistance, published on July 20th, 2025, calling on international activists to escalate the pressure to open channels of humanitarian aid.
For the past two years, Quebecois media has been providing heavily biased, one-sided, and dehumanizing coverage of the genocide in Gaza. Their editorial framing presents a false symmetry of violence, erasing the fundamental colonial context: the Zionist Entity, “Israel,” has been an expansionist occupying power since 1948, and Palestine an occupied territory. Thr vocabulary chosen by Quebecois journalists has also been extensively documented as being biased in favour of “Israel,” which receives a far more empathetic treatment than the Palestinian victimes, who are treated with distance and coldness. Finally, in the face of the ban imposed by “Israel” against international journalists entering Gaza, Quebecois media have obeyed, without calling the ban into question whatsoever, and none of them have judged it necessary to hire a Palestinian correspondant to document the daily massacres. On the contrary, Quebecois media had offered an exclusive platform to Au the genocidal Zionist authorities, including the higher-ups Tsahal. And yet, no Quebecois media has invited any representatives of the Palestinian resistance to speak.
Tonight, MG was targeted in particular because they represent one of the most powerful propaganda tools of the dangerous and genocidal Zionist ideology. Tribune of choice of the fasho-zionist in chief of the municipal governments, Jeremy Levi, MG spews terrible articles and doubtful chronicles with the goal of encouraging the most sadistic cognitive dissonance of the 21st century. The daily paper has been denounced by the organization Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East at least two separate times over the quality of their coverage of the student encampments in solidarity with Palestine, and more generally for their pro-Zionist biases in their coverage of the genocide in Gaza. In addition, MG is a part of the large Postmedia. Network family, which also owns the National Post, a collection of mediocre pseudo-journalistic texts. It is therefore unsurprising to see MG’s editorial line staunchly in favour of Zionist ideologies. Indeed, the primary stakeholder in Postmedia Network is Chatham Asset Management, an American speculative investment fund known for its proximity to the Republican party, also known to be the power bottom of choice for the tyrannical and genocidal ambitions of Netanyahu. Not only should we thusly consider MG as foreign media, we should also not be surprised when it’s coverage takes so many liberties with basic journalistic integrity when it’s leaders flirt openly with modern fascism.
What will it take for the media to listen to the people and begin to cover the genocide in Gaza to the height of the principles of journalistic integrity to which they claim to adhere? Earlier this week, militants occupied the offices of La Presse and Radio-Canada, without being offered adequate coverage of their critiques against them. Only exception being a mediocre editorial at La Presse from François Cardinal hiding behind a false sense of neutrality to dodge his active role in the normalisation of the genocide in Gaza. It is becoming more and more clear that Quebecois media don’t want to hear anything about the demands and legitimate protests of the people, and that it is only through economic damage that they will understand that they are standing on the wrong side of history.
Last night, multiple autonomous groups responded to the call from the Palestinian Resistance to activate and escalate pressure on international political, media, and economic institutions in order to allow aid into Rafah. Thus, Montréal/Tiohtiá:ke, as crowds gathered to applaud the finale of the fireworks season, multiple groups mobilised to remind you that in Gaza, the sounds of explosions signal death and ethnic cleansing.
For almost 22 months the Zionist Entity has been bombarding, torturing, attacking, and starving Palestinians, all before our eyes, and with full complicity from our leaders. As our siblings in Gaza live a famine orchestrated by Zionist forces, it is our responsibility to denounce the structures in place at the core of our society, which enable this genocide by normalizing the attrocities of the army, by normalising Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian hate, by profiting financially from Zionist propaganda, and by favouring repression against activists fighting for Palestinian liberation.
Who would be better to represent this complicity than Pierre-Karl Péladeau and his Quebecor empire? With a hand in each sphere of the media and culture landscape, Péladeau has played a large role in forming Quebecois public opinion for decades. Through a diversity of media entities, editing houses, advertising companies, and cultural productions, Quebecor propagates infinite hatred towards all vulnerable and marginalized communities. Queer and trans folks, drug users, immigrants, houseless people, just to name a few examples, all suffer dehumanization by the hands of PKP’s cronies. We can not ignore the systemic role that the Quebecor empire takes in the flagrant rise of Islamophobia in recent years; an integral element to the desensitization and general normalization of the Palestinian genocide in the public discourse. Through a plateform unilaterally offered to Zionists such as the CIJA lapdog Julien Corona, combined with an explosion of hateful rhetoric from his demagogues in chief, Quebecor looks to render the 77 years of Zionist colonialism in Palestine acceptable and palatable. But the people have not been duped, they are not insensitive. Even as PKP massively invests his dirty money in private security firms such as SIRCO, which profiles and brutalizes pro-Palestine activists, he will never succeed in normalizing the unacceptable.
It’s not because you are brown-nosing Zionists to shop for more Hollywood contracts that you will be able to shut us up, Péladeau!
Fuck your empire!
Fuck your Zionist friends!
Fuck your racism, your transphobia and your misogyny!
Comments Off on Report-back of Anti-Fascist Action on the 19th of May 2025
Jun112025
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
On the morning of “Patriot’s Day”, a day where Nouvelle Alliance (a québécois fascist and nationalist group) usually holds an annual show of force, we proved ourselves able to humiliate and claim victory over them. This group tried to assemble itself in front of a statue of Dollard Des Ormeaux, a figure of nationalist mythology whom Nouvelle Alliance tries to rehabilitate glorify and rehabilitate. Every year, they try to have an aesthetic gathering and bring in new members to rehabilitate their own image, tarnished by their venimous discourse and hideous hatred for others.
The few members of Nouvelle Alliance’s fighting core, numbering at barely twelve, met up early in a corner of Parc Lafontaine in order to march onto the the place where they plan to honor their martyr Dollard Des Ormeaux. However, we were better prepared and ready to face them. Whilst a group held the fort on the grounds the fascists aimed to occupy, a welcoming committee made it’s way to make it known that this was anti-fascist territory.
These neo-nazis, still believing strongly in Might Makes Right, did not hesitate to charge our line of anti-fascists and to start throwing hands and feet aided by reinforced gloves. The lil-leader (truly small of stature) François Gervais enjoyed LARPing as a commander ordering around his little troops and attempting to give us orders.
Nouvelle Alliance, far from the medias and university campuses, showed their true colors: raw hatred and a thirst for violence. Their attemps to denigrate us were of an almost absurd level of machismo: including nice quotes like “they sent a gang of faggots” and “there are so many women with them, [a fight] isn’t their place.” In accordance with these values, the only woman of the group stayed far off behind them in order to film their attack, whilst we sticked together in solidarity.
Our counter-attacks frustrated their advance and angered the side in front of us who expect us to give up and to fold in front of their supposed virile strength. The fear in their eyes were not lost by us, and we recognized the hesitation of many of the members of the group to continue fighting. Despite the adversaries’ determination to crack our skulls in, we were courageous and did not falter in responding in kind with our own fists, hands and sticks. None of us even had the idea to flee and it took police intervention to break up the brawl. Our strikes, rallied together by solidarity for our comrades, allowed us to slow down the fascists during a decent number of time: enough for our comrades holding the fort to come to our aid. Thankfully for Nouvelle Alliance, the polce arrived as our comrades were joining us, and the former did not hesitate to show their preference for their fellow fascists by standing by to defend the fascists whilst we were given no choice but to disperse from the park.
The massive victory of the libertarian left on this day was thanks to the unity within the diversity of tactics put into use. Our spirit of combativity and our physical counter-attacks against the fascists kept them away from the place of the Celebration. The Celebration gave popular support and legitimacy to sideline the fascists. Without the former, Nouvelle Alliance would have trampled over the efforts to set up the Celebration and would have inserted themselves into the public space: endangering the Celebration to the point where it would not have been accessible, familial and safe. Without the latter, we would not have shown the legitimacy that we actually have, and the police would have had every excuse to divy up the space and to falsely equivocate the fascist margins and popular anti-fascist resistance. We could freely fill our reclaimed space with joy and solidarity which sprouts from the diversity of tactics, unity within the struggle and unyieldingness against the fascist destruce forces. Continue to massify the struggle and continue striking fascists in the face.
Comments Off on The Association of Nehirowisiw Aski Land Defenders Wants Saboteurs Handed Over to Police
May262025
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
We’re writing what follows to enable anarchist comrades and anticolonial militants to make informed decisions about where and how to engage in struggle.
In a press release published May 17, 2025, and available on their Facebook page, the Association of Nehirowisiw Aski Land Defenders (MAMO First Nations) condemns acts of vandalism recently committed on forestry machinery apparently belonging to a contractor involved in cuts on their territory.
The press release goes further, claiming that “these acts cannot and must not go unpunished.” It continues: “If you witness an act of vandalism or if you have any information that may assist the investigation, we strongly encourage you to share it without delay with the police authorities.”
We believe that relationships of struggle are strongest when they are nourished by practices of honesty and transparent communication on the motivations and limits of each of us. We hope that these events can be the basis for nuanced and open conversations about solidarity.
