Maxime Marquette
MadMax is an independent bilingual news outlet based in Québec, publishing analysis on geopolitics, technology, democracy, and culture.
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
4,540 columns published
OPEN LETTER: Russia's Advance Rate Collapses in 2026
To everyone who has spent months repeating that Russia is advancing relentlessly, I'm writing this letter with a number in hand.
INVESTIGATION: Apollo Snatches EasyJet Holidays for £5.7bn, Outbids Castlelake
American private equity giant Apollo Global Management won, on July 10, 2026, a decisive bidding battle for control of EasyJet Holidays, the British budget…
REPORT: Trump Brushes Off Security Doubts About His Plane in Ankara
At the close of the NATO summit held in Ankara on July 8, 2026, Donald Trump had to face a series of persistent questions…
FACT-CHECK: Does Trump's Qatari Jet Really Lack Missile Defense
When Donald Trump left Turkey on July 8, 2026 aboard the old Air Force One rather than the new aircraft gifted by Qatar, a…
INVESTIGATION: Secret Service Rushes Trump Out of Turkey on Old Air Force One
On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at the close of the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump did not leave Turkey aboard his brand-new presidential…
COLUMN: China Evacuates 130,000 as Two Typhoons Strike in a Single Week
It took only a few days for China to tumble from one disaster straight into another. Just as authorities were still counting the dead…
ANALYSIS: Super Typhoon Bavi takes aim at Taiwan and China after a week from hell
Super typhoon Bavi is heading directly toward Taiwan and the Chinese coast, according to Bloomberg, with sustained winds reaching roughly 162 kilometers per hour,…
OPEN LETTER: To the 17 dead of Hubei, swept away by a sky gone mad
I am writing you this open letter because numbers alone no longer suffice to tell what happened in China's Hubei province. Seventeen dead.
PROFILE: Maysak, the storm that redrew the face of southern China
Tropical Storm Maysak was, on the meteorological record, only a modest-strength system compared to the monsters that regularly cross the Pacific.