Brian Chutskoff CD MD FRCSC (ret’d) 🇺🇦🇨🇦

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend - hope with integrity, dignity & grace #NSRLP @ProfJulieMac #a2j #srls #crisisofconfidence @ABlawg @CFCJ_FCJC @JWatsonHamilton #inherentjurisdiction #vexatiouslitigants @SRLjmuller #SelfRepJustice #a2jweekbc #ProBonoCan @CFCJ_FCJC #albertacourts

@davidpugliese @timescolonist “Fireside’ Al Maitland read Frederick Forsyth’s “The Shepherd” every Xmas Eve via @CBC for decades Wooden airframe. Twin Boom. share.google/E1MDuPnzI12qTt…

B.C. Aviation Museum acquires rare jet with John Travolta connection. Cold War-era de Havilland Vampire, Canada’s first fighter jet and part of the Blue Devils acrobatic team, will be a feature attraction at the B.C. Aviation Museum. timescolonist.com/local-news/bc-… via @timescolonist

A 44yo paraglider was hit by a Cessna 172 near Zell am See, Austria on Saturday. She deployed her rescue parachute & landed safely after colliding above Pinzgauer Hütte at 1:15 PM. The 28yo pilot landed the plane safely at Zell am See Airport.

@mfa_russia @RussianEmbassyC NO Children. Dormitory absconded by Russian military 01/26

◼️ In Starobelsk, Russia's Lugansk People's Republic, not far from the site of the tragedy, a spontaneous memorial has been erected in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack carried out by the Kiev regime. People continue to bring flowers...

@ABDanielleSmith Who advised you on the ambiguous wording of the 10/26 Referendum Question? The question is unanswerable‼️

I’ll be taking questions from the media following yesterday's province-wide address on Alberta’s October 2026 Referendum. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@LawScribes It would be interesting to discover who offered @ABDanielleSmith a legal opinion on the ambiguous wording of the October 2026 referendum question. It’s obviously an unanswerable question regardless of your position on Alberta separation

#Alberta will go to the polls this fall to answer a series of #referendum questions, including whether or not to vote, at a future date, to leave Canada. #ableg #cdnpoli #democracy #constitution globalnews.ca/news/11859681/…

@grok suggests that an Albertan who wants Alberta to remain in Canada should vote NO; because voting YES would be a vote that the voter agrees that @YourAlberta can, in fact, turn a non-binding referendum on this compound question into a binding referendum on separation‼️😡

@AnnaOdesitka I promise to be your witness & your voice. 🇨🇦 stands with 🇺🇦 🙏🏽

Friends as we have another murder theater at present and because I have less time to be on this fascist app than I wish, please use time I’m not here to read my lessons, share them. Did I not tell you that by March 2026 russian collapse will become undeniable and visible? They lose this year. As they must. Because once you understand what they are, you understand that humanity must be victorious. And always keep your promise to be our voice 🙏🏻

Sami is a friend, he did well. I have many friends that step up like this, it's a silver lining among how many I know have died doing this thing I have been immersed in for a lifetime. Hell, hard to believe I am still here really.

#Putinism Putin’s system of power is a monolithic pyramid This has brought unbearable chaos worldwide.

@penandpaper1989 Welcome to 🇨🇦😌

Orange is the new black?

I said on @MSNOW just now: What *is* the Trump slush fund? It's not an appropriation: Congress did not vote. It's not a settlement: There was no valid litigation because (as the judge said) Trump was suing himself. On what basis is this money leaving the Treasury?

#AdultFractures 50% of women & 20% of men will suffer a low trauma fall in their lifetime, usually due to falls. Vitamin D or Calcium supplements, or both, does not help prevent fractures or falls.

#EuropeanSecurity is currently largely guaranteed by the tremendous courage & adaptability of both the Ukrainian military & Ukrainian citizens. #BZ @avalaina a constant brave voice for 🇺🇦 sovereignty.

#NormalizationOfDeviance in Alberta healthcare delivery under @Alberta_UCP is leading to expected & entirely unnecessary deaths in Edmonton Emergency Departments & elsewhere. @ABDanielleSmith do your job‼️ cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

@BornFree_isms Thanks Hoping for the best. 🙏🏽

Yes that ICT program. Both- donors are limited. It’s not for everyone. Criteria is defined- severe hypoglycemia/brittle T1D (I fall into this). The process requires commitment (travel), accepting immunosuppressants, follow up and it often takes more than one procedure. Out of pocket expenses are in addition to the existing expense of insulin and supples. My personal reasons— this has been an intolerable way of existing since getting T1 post-covid infection. Total insulin freedom is best case- but an improvement of severe hypos is enough for me. Less insulin needs and less costs to be allowed to ‘live’

I am stunned…. I was in touch with a woman who used to live in Calgary, AB— now lives in Milano. She recieved an Islet Cell Transplant and has been ‘insulin free’ for 11 years. I don’t see a way forward without receiving this transplant. I’m truly done. #T1D

@penandpaper1989 Welcome to 🇨🇦 AT knows your not flying for leisure😜 In 2012, Air Transat was named World's Best Leisure Airline by Skytrax. The airline reclaimed the global title in 2018 and has won it nearly every year since (2019-2025) with the exceptions of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

@DrJacobsRad Is your work done entirely remotely? I did a Diagnostic Imaging Residency in Edmonton from 1996-2001. My R1 cohort initially took call from home with the audible STARS flyover of my home indicating I should leave for the UAH ER. R4-R5 call was 36 hrs in-house, later 👇24hrs

It's noon. I've been working since 5:30 this morning. So far I've read studies on 103 patients including 32 CT scans. 5 more hours to go. 😬 A big shout out to everyone else who's working today, whatever it is that you might be doing.

@MrAweso89327070 @CraigBaird The right of 24 innocent Canadians not to be murdered during the 911 ISIS suicide terrorist attack planned & executed by Osama Bin Laden who on 9/11/2001 was hiding in a cave within Kms from where, in 2006, the Taliban ambushed & killed Nichola 🙏🏽 nicholagoddard.com/new-page

@CraigBaird What Canadian rights were defended in the country of Afghanistan? What a terrible waste

On this day in 2006, Capt. Nichola Goddard was killed in Afghanistan. She was the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. She was posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Two schools and a Coast Guard patrol vessel are named for her. 📸 Sally Goddard

@DNetolitzky POOF 💨 There goes the Income Tax Act. It would be amusing, BUT FOR, the immense waste of scarce judicial resources (& thereby my taxpayer, pension only, money) expended to deal with this flagrant Abuse of Process 😡 Bravo Zulu for your willingness to continue to expose this 💩

“The appellant’s letter is nonsense.” Tax Court of Canada Justice Derksen might be accused of understatement. Go on. Read it. But it's magic nonsense. That letter includes something so rare, so precious, that I curled up in a ball and giggled. It's pseudolaw that is new. Well, not without antecedent. But I'd never thought of this combination. Sure, most of the letter is ancient and boring Strawman Theory, names in capitals or with magic spelling. I am not "a PERSON", but a living man. Yawn. Bleh. Then there's this: ... what you are doing is committing copyright infringement, Norman Traversy owns the copyrights to the Canada Income Tax Act. Errr... wut? Now, it’s an ancient pseudolaw tactic that you claim copyright or trademark in your own name, and then when a government or bank writes you, you demand payment of $100,000 or so on for each instance of your name for copyright infringement. Same if someone sues you. The Statement of Claim is a breach of copyright. But ... copyright in legislation? How does that work? Copyright belongs to an author/creator, or to whomever the author/creator sold copyright. And who is Norman Traversy? Maybe he was some government official or minister? Nope. He’s a pseudolaw personality (for example see MacKinnon v Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FC 201) who is hooked in with the fake Indigenous groups and courts that have been expanding in Canada (for example see R v Pickton, 2020 BCSC 1200) with COVID-19 pandemic mitigation resistance angles. So, we have someone who arbitrarily seems to have claimed copyright in legislation, and - presumably - that then means no one can make reference to or use legislation in some way, so poof! There goes the Income Tax Act. Naturally I was intrigued. That led down two paths. First, what is the copyright status of things created/written by the Canadian government. Why, that’s specifically covered in the Copyright Act, RSC 1985, c C-42, Part -1, section 12: 12 Without prejudice to any rights or privileges of the Crown, where any work is, or has been, prepared or published by or under the direction or control of Her Majesty or any government department, the copyright in the work shall, subject to any agreement with the author, belong to Her Majesty and in that case shall continue for the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication of the work and for a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year. So, copyright in all legislation automatically vests with Canada. Norman is an interloper! Or, since the first Canadian Income Tax Act (then the Income Tax War Act) dates to 1917, then the ITA is public domain. But that’s no basis for Norman to claim copyright. But it gets better. I mused ... what if Norman had gone to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and started registering copyright in legislation. You see, there isn’t much screening of filing a copyright registration, unlike trademarks and patents which are an involved process. Quick search on the CIPO copyright engine and ... oh dear. There are a set of copyright registrations for Norman Traversy: 1173152 - Justice for Canada 1194165 - Freedom Convoy, The Freedom Convoy 1221632 - Dreadnaught 1230302 - Bill C-15: An Act Respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples No Income Tax Act. But Traversy does seem to have seized copyright (on paper) of the legislation that implements the often-discussed UNDRIP Treaty. In reality this is meaningless, because that legislation dates to 2021, so within the 50-year absolute copyright period. Still - comical and neat! What does it mean, though, pseudolegally, that Traversy has copyright? No idea. Back to the Justice Derksen decision. This relates to tax matters that date to the mid 2000s. The taxpayer, Jeffrey Curran, claimed tax credits relating to mining and mineral development expenses. Until 2025 that litigation inched along in the Tax Court of Canada as a group of appeals with a lead case to decide the matter. Pretty typical of how the TCC works. It is cost and resource effective to run a small subset or single lead case then apply the result to a cluster of largely identical tax disputes. But the test cases were discontinued. Ultimately almost all were settled in some manner. Curran is an exception. Curran had a lawyer who withdrew in 2025, and afterwards Curran represented himself. I’ll let Justice Derkman continue the narrative: ... Now on his own, the appellant had choices to make. And the appellant made bad ones. Instead of attending the examination for discovery that the Crown had scheduled for December 3, 2025, to be held virtually and on a date that the appellant had confirmed was suitable, the appellant adopted a pseudo-legal stance. ... The appellant fails to appreciate that he commenced this proceeding, not the Crown. It was his appeal to prosecute. He has not done so. Although this Court should be slow to dismiss an appeal for want of prosecution, or for failing to attend an examination for discovery—and especially where there are extenuating circumstances—a slow pace is not warranted here. Sometimes pseudo-legal theorists require a swift and decisive response. For this reason, and as discussed further below, the appellant’s appeal will be dismissed. Curran sent the attached letter, with a fingerprint in red ink. But Canadian courts are not exactly enthused about these ideas: ... As Associate Chief Justice Rooke stated in Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571, Courts will not tolerate pseudo-legal arguments, misconduct, or tactics. Such behaviour is an abuse of process ... ... Too much ink has been spilled on pseudo-legal arguments, or what are commonly referred to as “organized pseudo-legal commercial arguments.” ... The appellant made a calculated decision by sending his letter dated November 24, 2025, to counsel for the Crown. He even made the effort to send it by registered mail and then followed up to confirm delivery. I have no reason to believe—and especially now that at least five months have since passed—that the appellant intends to correct course. Instead, the appellant has disengaged from his appeal. His actions amount to a deliberate abuse of the Court’s process. And this is not a time for second or third chances. ... In the circumstances, I am exercising my discretion and will dismiss the appellant’s appeal. Costs are awarded to the Crown, and payable by the appellant, in the fixed amount of $1,500. FAFO. And that, my friends, is how you deal with pseudolaw litigation. Though I do disagree in a small way. I like spilling ink about pseudolaw. Somebody has to here in Canada. But I quite understand how courts are thoroughly sick of it. Here’s the judgment: Curran v. The King, 2026 TCC 79 - canlii.ca/t/kkx78 It's classy.