Former Olympian Giulio Zardo, from Montréal, has been identified as a sympathizer and facilitator of the neo-Nazi group Frontenac Active Club.
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.
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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 It seemed as though he had withdrawn somewhat from this tiny community, since his girlfriend was expecting a baby and apparently gave birth in December, but it would appear that he has not learned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?”
Email received from Martin Brouillette on August 19, 2024, the same day that Montréal Antifasciste published its article on the Frontenac Active Club.
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.
