Mack
Lamoureux

From neo-Nazis
to Truck Nuts.

Hi—I'm Mack, a journalist and author based in Western Canada.

I spent nearly a decade as a senior reporter at VICE News, where I covered extremism, crime, politics, and culture across Canada and beyond. While there I wrote over 1,300 stories and from those I'm probably best known for my work on both domestic and international extremism. I was the first journalist to identify The Base, Atomwaffen Division, Soldiers of Odin, and the Three Percenters operating in Canada. I also led the first detailed investigation into 764, a global sextortion network targeting children. My work on the Base was at the heart of an eight-episode Gimlet series called American Terror and I've appeared as a guest or subject matter expert on numerous podcasts, in several documentaries and on national news.

I'm also the person responsible for bringing the Mandela Effect to mainstream attention with a story, somehow, about the spelling of Berenstain Bears — and did the most in-depth history of Truck Nuts out there. I enjoy a little high-low, as my editor used to say.

I'm currently working on my first book — a narrative nonfiction account of a QAnon-affiliated cult that seized an abandoned Saskatchewan school, set to be published by Penguin Random House in summer 2027.

You can find a collection of my work here and reach me at macklamoureux@gmail.com if you have a story idea or just want to talk. For sensitive tips you can contact me on Signal at macklamoureux.01.