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Column · 16 October 2026

U.S. cuts Muslim-majority immigration by 96%. What about us?

While Trump cuts immigration from Muslim-majority countries by 96%, Ottawa stays the course and Quebec bears the consequences. There's a lesson here, not to copy Washington, but as a reminder that a sovereign people has the right to say no.

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Column · 15 October 2026

Give Us Back Our Cross

Lifted off by a crane for a restoration slated to last a year, possibly two, the Mount Royal cross has left an empty tower atop the mountain. Vague promises, a stretchable timeline, a Catholic heritage that keeps fading: many Quebecers fear it will never return. I'm calling on the City to put a return date in writing.

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Column · 15 October 2026

When Praying in the Middle of the Road Becomes Everyone Else's Fault

Kneeling in the middle of the road at night for four minutes, while other drivers narrowly swerved around her: Samia Malik's death in Adelaide is a tragedy. But the way it is being told, and judged, says a great deal about our collective refusal to name responsibility.

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Column · 14 October 2026

Saturday, October 17: Yellow Vests and Gen Z join forces in a call to protest across France

Eight years after the Yellow Vest movement, a new call to mobilize is circulating for this Saturday, October 17, under the slogan "Yellow and young, our struggles meet." According to its organizers, the call started with a TikTok video. It then reportedly gained momentum through high school protests that began in Créteil on September 21.

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Column · 13 October 2026

PSPP and Immigration: Finally Some Common Sense, or Almost

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is finally proposing a sharp reduction in immigration to Quebec: half as many temporary residents, selection based on French proficiency, a moratorium on permanent economic immigration from abroad, and a hard cap at 35,000. For once, the half-measures stop. The real question is whether this common sense will hold against Ottawa or whether independence will be required to make it irreversible.

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Column · 12 October 2026

Jean-Luc Mongrain (1951–2026): A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced

Quebec has lost one of its most outspoken voices. Born in Sherbrooke and a graduate of the Université de Sherbrooke, Jean-Luc Mongrain left his mark on our television with his bluntness and his gift for oratory.

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Column · 12 October 2026

Blainville, or the Night Quebec Chose Stablex Over Its People

A special law, a gag order, a city expropriated, a peatland sacrificed: the Stablex affair is not a local story. It is the portrait of a government that no longer asks permission, and of a people that has grown far too used to staying silent.

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Column · 9 October 2026

Carney condemns Hamas. Ottawa keeps signing the cheques

On October 7, 2026, Mark Carney signed a solemn statement against Hamas. Fifteen days earlier, the same man announced another $100 million for Palestine. Ottawa is past $600 million since the massacre. Québec does not have to pay for this performance. Carney condemns Hamas. Ottawa keeps signing the cheques.

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Column · 8 October 2026

Another fine victory: the school will no longer belong to the place of worship

On September 27, in Granby, the Parti Québécois named what Bedford had already shown: a school can no longer be the partner of a place of worship. Two days after the vote, that principle is no longer a campaign promise. It is the commitment of a government. A minority, yes. But mandated to close the door.

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Column · 7 October 2026

Public money for religious schools is over: Quebec takes its classrooms back

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s government is preparing to cut public funding to religious schools, the ones that receive a tax credit as religious organizations. Announced in Granby on September 27, the pledge is now the line of the new Parti Québécois government. After years of secularism with a double standard — neutrality on the podium, confessional cheques in the back room — Quebec is finally taking its schools back. Taxpayers’ money is not there to train the faithful.

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Column · 2 October 2026

France: high-school protests hit 1,027 schools, Nelson Mandela lycée hall set on fire in Nantes

On 28 September, in Saint-Denis, teachers linked arms outside the Lycée Paul-Éluard to stand between pupils and the police. On 1 October the movement reached **1,027 lycées**, including **222 blockades**, and police arrested **1,949 people**. The same day, in Nantes, the hall of the Lycée Nelson Mandela, opened in 2014, went up in flames. One movement, two images. One of them is the story. The other is what actually burned

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Opinion · 28 September 2026

Thomas Perotto, 16: When a Village Dance Became the Scene of an Anti-White, Anti-French Racist Murder

Quebec is not an island. What happens to our French cousins concerns us. Thomas Perotto, a 16-year-old rugby player, was stabbed to death on 19 November 2023 as he left the winter village ball in Crépol, a hamlet of 500 people in the Drôme. Nearly three years later, investigating judges retained the aggravating circumstance of racism: the acts were committed because the victims belonged to “the white race and the French nation.” This was a late reversal, obtained against the prosecutor’s office, which preferred to speak of a “futile motive.” Witnesses had reported from the beginning remarks such as “we’re here to plant Whites,” “kill French people,” “waste the little Whites,” or “dirty French scum.”

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Column · 26 September 2026

“We will rule CANADA”: the Bishnoi gang, Ottawa’s open door, and a country that no longer controls who comes in

A gang run from an Indian prison wrote to Canadian police: we will rule this country, we have thousands of men, every business will pay a “tax.” Behind the swagger is a documented machine of extortion and intimidation and a federal immigration system that let the foot soldiers walk in on study and work permits. Quebec does not run that system. That is the point.

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Column · 23 September 2026

While Canadians line up at food banks, Carney finds $100 million “for Palestine”

In New York, on the sidelines of the UN, Mark Carney announces $100 million Canadian for Palestine: $80 million in humanitarian aid, $20 million for “peace and security,” including training Palestinian police. We are told not a penny will go to Hamas. Since October 7, 2023, Ottawa has already committed more than $600 million. Ukraine has received more than $25 billion. Meanwhile, 2.2 million visits to food banks in a single month, one in four Canadians facing food insecurity, rents eating the paycheck. Two wars. Two bills. One taxpayer. This column refuses the press release.

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Investigation · 23 September 2026

Murder of Jordan Gagné by another Arab-Muslim

The facts are no longer in dispute. On September 4, at suppertime, Jordan Gagné, a 23-year-old barber and father, was gunned down on Alexandre Street in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Police sources say the job was a $500 contract. Eighteen days later, the Sûreté du Québec issued a nationwide warrant for Ayoub Mohamed, 19, of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, wanted for first-degree murder. What official Quebec still prefers to drown in jargon is what this killing says about who we let in, who we refuse to send back, and what a small nation can still afford to import.

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Column · 22 September 2026

Équipe Christine Fréchette is the CAQ. Same machine. New wrapping

The campaign signs say Équipe Christine Fréchette. They do not say CAQ. That is not an accident. It is a vanishing act: hide the brand, keep the power, hope voters forget eight years of the same government.

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Column · 16 September 2026

Associate Member: A Word. Not a Treaty

In Strasbourg, Ursula von der Leyen offered Canada a title that appears in no EU treaty: “associate member.” Applause, an embrace, a blue map. The gesture is strong. The contract is not written. Between the photo and the Montreal summit, the real question remains what that word actually means — and how much Ottawa is prepared to give up to wear it.

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Column · 14 September 2026

The Allison Inquiry: Four Days Canada Finally Let the Injured Speak

From September 8 to 11, 2026, Conservative MP Dean Allison chaired unofficial hearings on Parliament Hill for Canadians who say they were harmed by a Covid-19 vaccine. It was not a commission, not a court, and not mandated by the government. Fifty people testified under oath out of more than 1,400 who asked. This chronicle explains what the Allison Inquiry was, what was heard, and why those four days matter to someone who lived a version of the same story.

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Column · 13 September 2026

The Smile That Went Too Far

On September 11, 2026, Ground Zero read the names of the dead. Mayor Zohran Mamdani had been asked by more than 100,000 petitioners to stay away. He came anyway — and was filmed smiling beside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Four seconds, a petition ignored, an oath on the Quran, a prayer that spoke of the sword against infidels, a ceremonial pen handed to the lawyer of an al-Qaeda terrorist: the question is no longer protocol. It is whether the victims still come first.

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Column · 9 September 2026

This Is Not Our King

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Column · 9 September 2026

At the Eiffel Tower, French women were hidden so as not to offend a guru

On Saturday, 5 September, a delegation from the Hindu movement BAPS was granted a private visit to the Eiffel Tower on one condition accepted by management: keep female staff out of the way. Women were pulled from their posts, some were replaced by men, others were told to wait out of sight in back rooms. On Monday the national monument shut down. Behind SETE’s belated apology and the Socialist City Hall’s outrage lies a single fact: in Paris, equality between the sexes recedes the moment a foreign religious demand arrives at the foot of the Iron Lady.

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Column · 8 September 2026

Saxony-Anhalt: a people that says stop

On 6 September 2026, Saxony-Anhalt handed the AfD 43.8% and cut the CDU down to 17%. Behind the score lies a decade of mass arrivals, rising violent crime, and sexual assaults that official statistics no longer allow anyone to treat as coincidence. Eastern Germany has voted to shut off the tap. Quebec should read the lesson before it becomes our own.

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Column · 5 September 2026

Josh D’Amaro at Disney: at last, wonder instead

Since March 18, 2026, Josh D’Amaro — a parks man, not a studio creature — has been at the helm of Disney. His first message set the course: story and creative excellence as the North Star. For parents tired of watching children’s films turn into lessons, this is rare and welcome news: that Mickey might become a dream again, not a program.

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Column · 4 September 2026

Behind the pink shirts, three dead children

Three children strangled in a basement. A mother who denies nothing. And three years later, women in pink outside the courthouse, TikToks of living babies being rocked to the caption Same, Lindsay. The Clancy case is no longer only a trial about postpartum psychosis. It is a portrait of a double standard — and of a culture willing to stand behind the most unforgivable act, so long as the person who did it is a woman.

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Column · 27 August 2026

Trump signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America"

Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," two days after floating the idea on Truth Social. The measure applies only to American federal maps and documents and carries no international legal weight. It follows the collapse of trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington.

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Column · 24 August 2026

Our churches are burning!

A historic wooden church in New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula burned to the ground in the early hours of August 24, 2026. The suspected arson at Saint-Simon is the latest in a series of church fires that have destroyed dozens of places of worship across Canada since 2021, erasing physical landmarks of community memory and faith.

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