Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired)

The CBC's 5th Estate news program has released a video on pseudolaw "Sovereign Citizens" who have defrauded the Canadian government using Strawman Theory related techniques, possibly up to $300 million: www.youtube.com/watch?v=07u-...

New Zealand has its first broad survey of pseudolaw caselaw in MA thesis by William Biss. hdl.handle.net/10523/52479 Biss identifies & surveys 267 NZ court judgments that involve pseudolaw, plotting a progressive increase over the past decade.

I track self-represented litigant activity at the Supreme Court of Canada. Something might be going on this year. So far SRLs make up 45.7% of appeals (N=308). If activity so far in this year is representative, that means 2026 is among the lowest total new appeal years at the SCC in 30 years.

But the average frequency of SRL applications is 24.7% (1997-2026). The highest previous frequency is 33.7% (2016). On a Z score calculation, that makes the SRL frequency in 2026 is 3.2 standard deviations off mean. The highest previous deviation was 1.42 standard deviations (2016).

New academic article by Polish investigator Ewa Iwanowska. Evaluates a Polish pseudolaw online community, ideas & links to Anglo-Saxon pseudolaw: www.researchgate.net/publication/... It's in Polish. A really nice job discussing the interconnections between pseudolaw's ideas and host populations.

Don't usually recommend people read court decisions. Here's an exception. The Ontario Court of Appeal rejects a constitutional "Charter" right to public bike lanes. Which is stupid obvious. But the ONCA goes further. A declaration that judges are not Canada's policy-makers.

It’s a rare, rare thing when you give people who are lauded as brilliant, extraordinary, and they turn away from the opportunity to exercise power, as they think is best. After all, they’re better than you and me.

Don't usually recommend people read court decisions. Here's an exception. The Ontario Court of Appeal rejects a constitutional "Charter" right to public bike lanes. Which is stupid obvious. But the ONCA goes further. A declaration that judges are not Canada's policy-makers.

I won’t try to summarize because that defeats the purpose. But if you wonder why it seems Canada’s law and the policies imposed via law are so disjointed and out of step with what you see around you, here is an answer. Cycle Toronto v Ontario (Attorney General), 2026 ONCA 582 (canlii.ca/t/kmmft)

Don't usually recommend people read court decisions. Here's an exception. The Ontario Court of Appeal rejects a constitutional "Charter" right to public bike lanes. Which is stupid obvious. But the ONCA goes further. A declaration that judges are not Canada's policy-makers.

The bike lanes judgment broadly conflicts with Supreme Court of Canada operations. That court makes policy with no regard to expense, history, democratic principles. Ok ok they make hand wavey gestures, they “carefully considered” such. Economic data to back that up? Pfah. Who needs that?

Don't usually recommend people read court decisions. Here's an exception. The Ontario Court of Appeal rejects a constitutional "Charter" right to public bike lanes. Which is stupid obvious. But the ONCA goes further. A declaration that judges are not Canada's policy-makers.

Practically a declaration of war in Canada's modern legal ecosystem, not so different from Luther hammering his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg cathedral. The ONCA is explicit. No matter how smart judges may think they are, how much superior they believe their own analyses & perspectives.

Turns out you can't blame a robot for your litigation misconduct. A Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision tosses out an appeal where the SRL appellant submitted a transcript of lower court proceedings that was generated by an unidentified LLM AI. The transcript wasn't accurate.

Pseudolaw “law schools” intrigue me. Why would you trust an institution that places itself outside the legal norms? My favorite, the "Erwin Rommel School of Law", established 1974 disappeared. Yes that Rommel. But it's back! Still run by Michael Halsey Brown, now he has a number of collaborators.

Rolling Stone magazine has published a retrospective of our Arcturian Goddess, HRM Romana Didulo, Queen of Canada, Long May She Reign! www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... Fair notice, I'm quoted a few times. I have some issues with the reporting. To be blunt, I think the story was "sexed up".

I've posted some detailed observations on that on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... Not saying the Rolling Stone article isn't useful if you want a high level overview. But ... just be a little cautious with its contents.

I'm kinda a shithead. The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to an appeal on whether or not oath's of office are constitutional or not, or infringe on religious belief. There's a pseudolaw guru named "minister" Belanger who has argued something like that for years. So I poked him on X.

My pseudolaw focus means when I encounter a weird-sounding standoff or crisis I poke a little deeper. Is this "One of my dudes?" This morning's example was a no. But the confrontation with a guy hepped up on hyperventilation, world control by pendulums? Got personality!

A couple weeks ago Chief Justice Wagner was asked about SRLs. He mused their numbers are up at the SCC to a record degree. I track this data. He might be right. 45.8% of 2026 SCC leave applications are by SRLs. My data is the previous record was 34.1% (2016). The average from 1997-2025 is 24%.