In March 2025, Canadian citizen Redmond David Terrence Weissenberger was reported missing in Budapest, Hungary. A local news outlet stated that he had left his residence in the 7th district and police were searching for him. Shortly afterward, an Ottawa Citizen obituary announced that he had died on March 12, 2025 from “complications of bipolar disorder.”
The official description of his life was minimal: “a talented artist and industrial designer.”
What the obituary omitted is far more significant.
Who Redmond Actually Was
Redmond Weissenberger was the founder and Executive Director of the Mises Institute of Canada. He launched the Journal of Prices & Markets and the International Conference of Prices and Markets. Board members and supporters included established Austrian economists such as Douglas French (himself then-President of the original Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama) and Walter Block. Major Canadian investors, including Eric Sprott, provided advice and financial support.
Chris Horlacher first met Redmond in early 2011 when Redmond approached Euro Pacific Canada (where Chris was then CFO) seeking institutional relationships for the newly formed Mises Institute of Canada. Chris later volunteered at the Institute, served as Treasurer and Vice-Chairman, and spearheaded the development of an accredited continuing education curriculum.
It was while volunteering at a Mises Institute of Canada booth at a Cambridge Resource Investment Conference later that same year that Chris first met Marc Godard — the man who would later become a central figure in the destruction of Equibit Group Ltd. and who is now the subject of a separate lawsuit.
The Pattern
Redmond’s public disappearance from the organization around 2018 was abrupt. After years of close collaboration, he became unreachable. When he finally responded to Chris’s resignation letter, he cited serious marital difficulties. That was the last communication. The Mises Institute of Canada subsequently faded into inactivity.
Seven years later, Redmond is found dead in a foreign capital under circumstances that received almost no public scrutiny, and his most consequential work is erased from the official record of his life.
From the perspective of anyone familiar with the methods documented in the Equibit case, the sequence is difficult to ignore:
- An intellectual network promoting Austrian economics and skepticism of central banking and state power is established in Canada.
- An individual (Marc Godard) appears at one of its public events and embeds himself in the social and professional circle of its most capable participants.
- Key organizers experience personal disintegration, withdrawal, or, in Redmond’s case, death abroad under opaque circumstances.
- The institutional project collapses.
This is consistent with the logic of Zersetzung: identify a node of influence, insert an asset, degrade the personal and professional lives of the people who give the node its strength, and allow the structure to collapse without a visible authoritarian crackdown.
Speculation and Caution
We do not currently possess evidence that proves Redmond Weissenberger was subjected to a coordinated targeting campaign, nor that his death was anything other than what the obituary claims. The official cause of death remains “complications of bipolar disorder.”
What we do possess is a striking set of correlations:
- The entry point of Marc Godard into Chris Horlacher’s life was the Mises Institute of Canada.
- Redmond, the founder of that Institute, experienced a sudden and total withdrawal from public and professional life.
- Years later he dies abroad under circumstances that left almost no public footprint, and the record of his intellectual work is scrubbed from his own obituary.
The Canadian Embassy in Budapest refused to provide any information or assistance in relation to Redmond’s death. A direct inquiry with the Budapest police has been submitted.
Until then, the questions remain open — and, given everything else that has been documented on this site, they are not trivial ones.
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Update – September 2026
New information from Ash Navabi, a former volunteer at the Mises Institute of Canada and close colleague of both Redmond Weissenberger and Chris Horlacher, combined with a detailed examination of the public archive record for mises.ca, clarifies the final operational period of the Institute and the subsequent history of its primary domain.
Navabi reports that the last time he saw Redmond was at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit in 2018, an event that also featured Yuri Maltsev (who later died on 25 January 2023). At that gathering, Redmond expressed a desire either to transfer the Institute to Navabi or to wind it down entirely. Navabi, then a young student, declined on the grounds that he lacked the experience to administer a registered charity.
The publicly archived history of the domain mises.ca supplies a precise timeline:
- On or before 27 March 2019 the site was reduced to a simple holding page.
- On or before 30 December 2019 the Institute content was removed entirely.
- On or before 30 June 2020 the domain resolved to a French-language online gambling website.
- On or before 14 August 2022 the gambling site was taken offline.
- On or before 25 July 2026 the original Institute content (or a close reconstruction of it) reappeared at the same address.
The restoration of the original site occurred some time after Chris Horlacher publicly called out to Redmond during a 30 June 2026 interview with Charlie Robinson, and in the days before his interview with Josh Sigurdson,.
Current public WHOIS data for mises.ca lists the registrant as Irene Hamrick of Edmonton, Alberta. The registrar is Go Get Canada Domain Registrar Ltd. (a Namecheap entity). The domain was created (or re-registered) on 10 August 2022—immediately after the gambling site disappeared—and is currently served through Cloudflare nameservers. No information is publicly available as to who restored the original Institute material, under what authority, or for what purpose.
A second, closely related domain has also appeared: lvmises.ca. This domain was registered on 22 March 2017 (while the original Institute was still operating). Its current content presents itself as “lvmises: Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada” and uses generic free-market language, yet the actual articles consist almost exclusively of commercial content about healthcare direct-mail marketing, mailing services, and related advertising strategies. The site is hosted on BunnyCDN nameservers and the registrant details are fully redacted. The combination of an official-sounding Mises Institute branding with pure commercial/spam content is characteristic of domain-parking or SEO-poisoning operations designed to capture residual search traffic associated with a legitimate institutional name.
Taken together, the multi-year occupation of mises.ca by a gambling operator, the subsequent unexplained restoration of Institute branding, and the parallel existence of the commercial lvmises.ca site form a consistent pattern of domain and brand degradation that Equibit Group describes as one of the prongs of attack used in modern Zersetzung. Whether these actions were coordinated or opportunistic, the practical effect has been the same: the residual authority and search presence of the original Mises Institute of Canada have been diluted and redirected.
These facts add a further layer of unresolved anomaly to the already incomplete public record of the Institute’s dissolution and of the final years of Redmond Weissenberger’s life.
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