The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
Dred Scott, politics, and the “living” constitution
Does the US Constitution today really permit “racist lawyers and racist judges” to deny rights to black people by invoking the precedent of Dred Scott?
Protect free speech by getting governments out of the way
Free speech is a right against government interference, thriving when government refrains from imposing restrictions.
We approach state singularity
A must-watch on the trajectory towards state singularity by Professor Bruce Pardy.
First principles with Bruce Pardy
Danielle Smith’s government, to her credit, is amending the Alberta Bill of Rights. That’s a good thing. But it needs to be right.
The mandates of the managerial state
Government intrudes incrementally, writes Professor Bruce Pardy. Digital ID, for instance, will be offered as a convenient choice.
A matter of accommodation
Are academic accommodations unjust? The argument continues anew in this commentary on why giving some students more help than others undermines a key good offered by universities.
Ford demands TMU's new med school educate qualified students 'regardless of their race'
'The government has spoken to TMU about their equity admissions' amid criticisms of relaxed standards and limits on non-equity applicants.
Equality vs. Equity: The crisis of race-based admissions in Canadian universities
The shift from equality of opportunity to equity is seen as a broader trend in Canadian universities that is symptomatic of a larger crisis, where identity politics may overshadow rigorous academic standards.
At Toronto Metropolitan University medical school, some students are more equal than others
Canada’s newest medical school will select students not for their ability, but their identity. Great, as if Canada’s healthcare system wasn’t bad enough already.
Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues
'The law cannot simultaneously apply the same laws and standards to everyone and also adjust them depending upon the group,' Bruce Pardy writes.
At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others
Remember that the next time you're waiting to see your newly minted doctor.
A Right to Unequal Treatment: In Canada, some people are more equal than others
Equality rights in Canada have become weapons wielded by preferred groups to demand advantageous outcomes.
Who is the deep state and is it in Canada?
Bruce Pardy looks at why the legal system is not working the way it should, as well as the impact of the deep state, and how governments are being compromised.
Canada’s Cold War
In 1972, Team Canada was fighting for our way of life against an adversary who sought to tear it down. That foe is back and, this time, our team has switched sides.
Corporate Canada betrayed capitalism. Now it has been betrayed
Canadian business leaders eagerly jumped on the climate and ESG bandwagons. Bill C-59 has pushed them off. New from Bruce Pardy.
WHO’s on first
The game of Global Public Health is not played on a baseball diamond. But the game is real, and so are the players. Who made the team, who’s out, who’s up to bat, and what’s the goal? Bruce Pardy breaks it down.
We approach state singularity
We are approaching the moment when state and society become indistinguishable, and legal norms and expectations irrelevant. How do we escape?
Rise of the all-powerful administrative state heralded Canada's internet crackdown
Bill C-63, the Liberal government’s online harms act, would give an overpowered bureaucracy further control over our lives.
Canada’s constitutional mistake
How the rule of law gave way to the managerial state. New from Bruce Pardy.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”