Court File No. CV-20-00645492-0000
Equibit Group Ltd. v. Attorney General of Canada et al.
Related: Court File No. CV-26-00015305-0000 — Equibit Group Ltd. v. Marc Godard, issued 31 July 2026.
On 22 June 2026, a Windows laptop used by Chris Horlacher played USB connect and disconnect sounds and changed monitor resolution while no device was plugged in or removed. The same session included a display-driver install that appeared while updates had been paused, a Snipping Tool failure that cleared after the failure was mentioned in an external chat, and intermittent keyboard lag. Task Manager did not show a CPU or memory spike.
The date matters. Equibit Group Ltd. was then preparing the Statement of Claim later issued against Marc Godard. The laptop was in use for that work. Five weeks later the claim was issued.
What the Laptop Did on 22 June 2026
The events occurred in close succession.
- USB connect and disconnect sounds, with a resolution change. The machine played a USB “plug” sound, the monitor resolution increased for one to two seconds, then it played an “unplug” sound and the resolution returned. No physical USB device was connected or disconnected.
- Keyboard lag. Input lag was intermittent during the same window.
- Task Manager. Despite the lag, Task Manager did not show excessive CPU or memory use. Whatever was touching the display was not a noisy process sitting in the open.
A connect sound without a cable being moved is a device-arrival event. The reading that fits the pair of symptoms — the sound, then a resolution jump, then the sound again — is a temporary virtual display adapter: something enumerates, takes the screen, and drops off. No Device Manager capture from that minute names the object. The symptom pair is the record.
The Intel Display Driver That Installed the Same Day
Shortly after the display events, Windows Update installed Intel Corporation Display Driver version 32.0.101.7085, dated 3 March 2026, without an explicit approval in that session. Horlacher had paused updates.
That version is a published Intel graphics package. A signed driver is the ordinary wrapper. The point is the timing. Updates were paused. The package arrived anyway, in the same window as the resolution changes, on a machine being used to prepare a claim against an alleged intelligence officer. A display driver is not a notepad update. It sits under the screen.
The Snipping Tool Failure and the Chat Timing
The Windows Snipping Tool, opened with PrtSc, stopped working. Snips would not paste into other applications. Horlacher described the failure in an external chat. The tool then worked again.
That is the part of the session that is hardest to file as a glitch. A capture tool dies while the screen is being disturbed. It returns when the disturbance is said out loud, off the machine. Equibit Group Ltd. reads that as a live response: someone in the session heard the complaint and put the tool back. A crashed helper that happens to recover on the same minute remains possible. It is not the better reading.
The same capture failure appears in an earlier intrusion, logged in Microsoft Under Fire. Horlacher had been working all day on the confidential Marc Godard memo when he noticed that a public sharing link had been turned on. He reached for the screen recorder. The PrtSc button was dead. An iPhone nearby took the video instead. On 22 June 2026 the Snipping Tool died in the same way, while the display was being disturbed, and returned after the failure was described in chat. Equibit Group Ltd. reads both as the same move: when the intrusion is noticed, the tool that would record it is switched off. These events are no longer isolated. They are part of the noise on the machines used to prepare the claim.
The Godard Claim Was Being Prepared
On 22 June 2026 the Statement of Claim in Court File No. CV-26-00015305-0000 was not yet issued. It was being assembled. The claim, issued 31 July 2026, alleges that Marc Godard made contact in 2011, embedded himself in Equibit, and later moved to take the company out of Horlacher’s hands as the CSIS action was entering discovery.
The laptop events sit in that preparation window, not in a quiet month. They also sit beside incidents already on the technical record: router and TR-069 interference on the Mexico residential lines, DNS man-in-the-middle interference, and document-access irregularities in the Microsoft workspace, including a sharing link opened on the confidential Marc Godard memo. The pattern is the same one. Access, display, and capture tools move when the Godard file is the work on the desk.
Place in the Equibit Lawsuit
The 22 June 2026 sequence is part of the technical-attack chronology pleaded around Court File No. CV-20-00645492-0000, and it is timed to the drafting of Court File No. CV-26-00015305-0000. It belongs with the incidents collected in Seven Documented Technical Attacks Against Equibit and Chris Horlacher. The issued pleading against Godard is Statement of Claim Filed Against Marc Godard.
A display flicker on a drafting laptop is not a Defence. It is a dated record of interference in the weeks before the claim went out.
Further Reading
- Statement of Claim Filed Against Marc Godard
- The Marc Godard Revelation
- Seven Documented Technical Attacks Against Equibit and Chris Horlacher
- Microsoft Under Fire
- Router Sabotage Exposed
- DNS Man-in-the-Middle Attack Exposed
