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Those Responsible for the Crisis Have Names and Addresses

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Jul 082026

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To the landlord class:

Why do we break windows? Why did we break your windows (and paint your offices)? Just like every July 1st, many renting households will find themselves on the street. Others will end up in inadequate, substandard, and/or unaffordable housing. In the coming days, we’ll be hearing about the housing crisis. Rising prices. A shortage of available housing. And just like every year, most people will move on to the next story. We’ve heard it all before. But one thing that’s never discussed—or only mentioned in passing—is who’s responsible for the crisis. The housing crisis didn’t just happen out of thin air. People who find themselves on the streets are not victims of the invisible market. Gentrification and the financialization of housing are not natural phenomena. There are people behind this crisis, people behind this market, people behind these phenomena. And these people have names and addresses.

Among those responsible are companies like Iacobo Capital and Denstays. Why these two? Because they have the misfortune (and our good fortune) of being neighbors! The first is a rental and investment company that acquires and manages “undervalued” apartment complexes and units for its investors. Yet this company, which boasts of being a real estate leader, is nothing less than a serial renovictor and a horrible slumlord that plays with the health of its tenants. For its part, Denstays is a short-term rental company with several luxury units in the Plateau, Little Italy, and Mile End. Its executives also rent out properties on Airbnb. The impact of short-term rentals on housing and our communities is well known. Denstays is actively contributing to this trend.

Anyway, on the night of June 30 to July 1, we decided to take matters into our own hands. Why did we smash your windows (and paint your offices)? Because we’re sick of seeing so much energy and resources wasted on lobbying elected officials for unfortunately often paltry gains and on organizing peaceful protests for the right to housing. Instead, we decided to smash your windows. To physically attack your workspaces (just so you know, we’re not heartless—we don’t attack your living spaces, unlike you). To make you pay the price of your responsibility. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Or something like that.

Now we hope that other nighttime troublemakers will feel inspired to take matters into their own hands ;p

Ottawa: Trucks in Metro Courtyard Vandalized

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Jun 232026

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Hi Metro, are you still wondering who these people are who broke into the courtyard of your distribution center in Sandy Hill? Who effortlessly drilled holes in the tires of your trucks — tweny-five to be exact — and sabotaged the braking system of six more? Who completely covered those same trucks with paint? Forcing you to wash it off quickly the next morning so you wouldn’t have to drive across town saying “Eat the Rich” and “Fuck Metro.” Oh, but wait, you couldn’t, tires were flat! As you could read on one of your trucks: no tires, no profits, right?

Well look no more, it’s us! Just Some Other Bitches Expropriating Your Shit, or as we like to call ourselves: SOBEYS. Yeah, like your rival supermarket chain in Canada. Maybe were we jealous of your reported 2025 net earnings exceeding $1 billion? Anyways, we easily found the address of one of your distribution centers and decided to make it not yours anymore. Reminding you that even when you try, you don’t have control over what you think is yours.

So go ahead, keep spending more money on security guards, maybe they’ll go on killing people in grocery stores. While you try to stop us from stealing some cheap food, we’ll slash your thousand-dollar tires. Inspired by the Robins des Ruelles in Quebec, we decided to give it a twist, hitting higher up in the chain. And if you’re wondering, yes, we can absolutely go higher.

Kisses!

** And for friends who might be wondering, an effective way to sabotage a semi-trailer’s braking system is to fill the two connecting lines that link the trailer to the tractor with expanding polyurethane foam. These lines look like valves; they are very accessible and are almost always located in the same place on a trailer (in the lower right corner). They allow compressed air to flow from the tractor to the trailer and transmit the signals to apply and release the brakes. The foam renders the trailer inoperable, since it becomes impossible to connect it to a tractor (and therefore to release the breaks), while posing no risk to anyone; whether it’s us doing it, the driver, or other folks on the road.

Attack on Nouveau Monde Contractor ABB, Two Vehicles Burned

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Jun 162026

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Earlier this spring, two pickup trucks belonging to the industrial technology company ABB were set on fire in the parking lot of their main Montreal office. ABB specializes in the electrification and automation of industry. They are a cog in the machine of the devastating “ecological transition” on an international level. ABB has a contract with Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) to build a substation for the Matawinie graphite mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, recently declared a project of “national interest” by the government of Canada. NMG claims this substation will eventually allow the mine to run fully electrically.

Refusing Tech-Dystopia: GardaWorld’s AI Camera Tower Toppled in Hochelaga

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Jun 052026

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About a month ago, without any announcement, a large camera tower was placed in the middle of Marche Maisonneuve, Hochelaga. The tower was a new tool of AI camera surveillance developed by the local enemy company GardaWorld. These towers of control are being rolled out all over North America by the thousands by the company’s new subsidiary ECAM. Enraged by the continued encroachment of surveillance technology in our lives and emboldened by a winter full of attacks on cameras in the city, we decided to do something about it.

We went out one night, toppled the tower and destroyed the cameras. We were filled with joy to discover that others had gotten there first, in what was clearly an attempt to burn the tower. ECAM claims that, using AI technology, this tower will alert authorities of suspicious activity before a crime is committed. They clearly failed to do so fast enough.

The tower has since been removed from the square and only scorch marks on pavement remain where it once stood. It’s beautiful. Our only regret is that the tower was tolerated for a whole month. We hope that others, moved by rebellious spirit, don’t leave a single one of these towers standing.

“Because behind every camera are the rich and the powerful, who count on fear to maintain the social peace necessary for their profits”
– From “Why Destroy Cameras”, a poster seen in Hochelaga that we felt inspired by.

CAMOVER

We Gave Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Refusing Mamie Clafoutis’ Pain-opticon

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May 022026

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In the spirit of all those May Day expropriations that came before, we entered Mamie Clafoutis’ St. Denis location and filled our bags this morning in total rejection of the encroaching gaze of surveillance and and the false gods of capitalism.

Partnering with retail tech startup Leav, Mamie Clafoutis boasts that it is “pioneering a new era of automated smart stores.” This is the beginning of the same Amazon Go model that has already infected other cities, praised by media as innovation. Registering with a facial scan on their app can get you the ‘privilege’ of buying bread 24/7 in these automated, cashless bakeries.

Unmanned and always on, the Scan & Go system at Mamie Clafoutis enlists you in your own surveillance. We will not accept this shrine of control and enclosure chiseling away at us under the guise of a few moments of convenience. Here it must be cut off at the root, before this yuppie tech-slop lifestyle spreads not only to every bakery, every marketplace, but every moment of exchange of time, attention, and consent in our lives. We easily rushed this bougie store which turns daily necessities into luxury items that you need a face scan and a credit card to access.

These acts are not feats of legend, rather, they are simple, within reach, and ours to perform forevermore. Subsistence is not a product to be scanned. We aim to inspire those under the boot of capital to take whatever their hands, bags and minds can carry.

No cameras, no masters, no mamie clafoutis!

We can take everything – Happy May Day!

Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Damage to Concordia in Response to Repression

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Apr 062026

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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.

The girls don’t want rights, they want freedom ! Coordinated attacks on GardaWorld: 3 sites vandalized

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Mar 112026

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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’.

Witches Against Power (WAP)

“FUCK TON NOUVEAU MONDE”: Vandalism at Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Downtown Montreal Offices

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Feb 272026

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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.

ARA Robotique

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Feb 252026

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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.

[Video] Tear Them Down: CAMOVER 2026

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Feb 032026

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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.

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