https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles Independent journalism and political commentary from Quebec. en Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:30:00 -0400 https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/immigration-des-pays-a-majorite-musulmane-96-aux-etats-unis-et-nous.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/immigration-des-pays-a-majorite-musulmane-96-aux-etats-unis-et-nous.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:30:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/rendez-nous-notre-croix.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/rendez-nous-notre-croix.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/quand-prier-au-milieu-de-la-route-devient-la-faute-des-autres.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/quand-prier-au-milieu-de-la-route-devient-la-faute-des-autres.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/samedi-17-octobre-un-appel-a-manifester-reunit-gilets-jaunes-et-gen-z.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/samedi-17-octobre-un-appel-a-manifester-reunit-gilets-jaunes-et-gen-z.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/pspp-et-l-immigration-enfin-le-gros-bon-sens-ou-presque.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/pspp-et-l-immigration-enfin-le-gros-bon-sens-ou-presque.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:30:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/jean-luc-mongrain-1951-2026-une-voix-qui-ne-se-taisait-pas.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/jean-luc-mongrain-1951-2026-une-voix-qui-ne-se-taisait-pas.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/blainville-ou-la-nuit-ou-quebec-a-choisi-stablex-contre-son-peuple.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/blainville-ou-la-nuit-ou-quebec-a-choisi-stablex-contre-son-peuple.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/carney-condamne-le-hamas-ottawa-continue-de-signer-les-cheques-carney-condamne-l.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/carney-condamne-le-hamas-ottawa-continue-de-signer-les-cheques-carney-condamne-l.html Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/une-autre-belle-victoire-l-ecole-n-appartiendra-plus-au-lieu-de-culte.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/une-autre-belle-victoire-l-ecole-n-appartiendra-plus-au-lieu-de-culte.html Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/fini-l-argent-public-pour-les-ecoles-religieuses-le-quebec-reprend-enfin-son-eco.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/fini-l-argent-public-pour-les-ecoles-religieuses-le-quebec-reprend-enfin-son-eco.html Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/en-france-les-manifestations-lyceennes-degenerent-222-blocages-un-lycee-de-2014.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/en-france-les-manifestations-lyceennes-degenerent-222-blocages-un-lycee-de-2014.html Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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 https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/thomas-perotto-16-ans-quand-un-bal-de-village-devient-le-theatre-d-un-meurtre-ra.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/thomas-perotto-16-ans-quand-un-bal-de-village-devient-le-theatre-d-un-meurtre-ra.html Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:30:00 -0400 Tribune 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.” https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/nous-allons-regner-sur-le-canada-le-gang-bishnoi-le-systeme-federal-et-le-prix-d.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/nous-allons-regner-sur-le-canada-le-gang-bishnoi-le-systeme-federal-et-le-prix-d.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/meurtre-de-jordan-gagne-par-une-autre-pourriture-arabo-musulmane.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/meurtre-de-jordan-gagne-par-une-autre-pourriture-arabo-musulmane.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Investigation 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/pendant-que-les-canadiens-font-la-file-carney-trouve-100-millions-pour-la-palest.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/pendant-que-les-canadiens-font-la-file-carney-trouve-100-millions-pour-la-palest.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/la-caq-se-cache-derriere-christine-frechette.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/la-caq-se-cache-derriere-christine-frechette.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/une-belle-etiquette-collee-sur-un-contrat-qui-n-existe-pas.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/une-belle-etiquette-collee-sur-un-contrat-qui-n-existe-pas.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/l-enquete-allison-quatre-jours-pour-entendre-ce-que-le-canada-n-a-pas-voulu-ente.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/l-enquete-allison-quatre-jours-pour-entendre-ce-que-le-canada-n-a-pas-voulu-ente.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/le-sourire-de-trop.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/le-sourire-de-trop.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/invisibilisation-de-la-femme-a-la-tour-eiffel-pour-un-guru.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/invisibilisation-de-la-femme-a-la-tour-eiffel-pour-un-guru.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:30:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/ce-n-est-pas-notre-roi.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/ce-n-est-pas-notre-roi.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique On September 3, 2026, in Ottawa, they unveiled the new twenty-dollar bill. Vertical. Green. Polymer. “More secure than ever.” At its centre: the face of King Charles III. On the back: the *Vimy Memorial*. Around him: the floral emblems of the provinces and territories, a few Indi… https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/saxe-anhalt-un-peuple-qui-dit-stop.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/saxe-anhalt-un-peuple-qui-dit-stop.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/josh-d-amaro-a-la-tete-de-disney-enfin-le-retour-du-reve.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/josh-d-amaro-a-la-tete-de-disney-enfin-le-retour-du-reve.html Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/derriere-les-t-shirts-roses-trois-enfants-morts.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/derriere-les-t-shirts-roses-trois-enfants-morts.html Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/trump-signe-un-decret-rebaptisant-le-lac-ontario-lac-d-amerique.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/trump-signe-un-decret-rebaptisant-le-lac-ontario-lac-d-amerique.html Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/nos-eglises-brulent.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/nos-eglises-brulent.html Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chronique 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. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/antifa-milice-terroriste.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/antifa-milice-terroriste.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Investigation Designated a domestic terrorist organisation in the United States, Antifa Ost listed in Hungary and Washington. A killing in Portland, hammers in Germany, an arson attack on ICE. In Canada, people still say “anti-fascism”. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/chat-control-euro-numerique.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/chat-control-euro-numerique.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Investigation Europe extended message scanning to 2028 and is preparing a digital euro for 2029. Ottawa froze bank accounts in 2022. The pretext is called children, security, modernity. The result is called control. https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/drummondville-ce-que-l-on-refuse-de-voir.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/drummondville-ce-que-l-on-refuse-de-voir.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Field report A snapshot taken in Drummondville. A simple question the elites have dodged for too long: how long will we deny the Islamisation in front of our eyes? https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/europe-miroir-quebec.html https://ramenonslegrosbonsens.com/en/articles/europe-miroir-quebec.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Archives Ceuta, the Champs-Élysées, Cologne, street prayers, genital mutilation. This is not “somewhere else”. It is the next chapter, if Quebec remains a province.