The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
Meet the Albertan separatists who want to be American
A growing band of Canadians say their most oil-rich province should join forces with the U.S. ‘Political disruption is what this country needs.’
Premier Eby wants to give B.C. cabinet extraordinary powers
The introduction of an emergency power tariff-response bill (Bill 7) by B.C.’s NDP government echoes historical precedents like King Henry VIII’s power to rule by decree, known as “Henry VIII clauses,” which are controversial for eroding limits on executive authority.
Make Alberta America
Trump has opened the door. He should invite the province in and make the people of Alberta an offer. He might start with these two promises.
In some scenarios, tariffs actually make sense
Like Trump himself, sometimes tariffs are not that crazy.
Free Speech Union of Canada
Launched on Family Day, February 17, the Free Speech Union of Canada aims to champion a legacy of free speech and intellectual inquiry for Canadians, both present and future.
A declaration of independence for Alberta
“It’s not really my place. I’m an Ontario boy. Who am I to draft a declaration of independence for Alberta? The answer is, I’m Canadian, and my compromised, complacent country needs shaking up.”
In Canada, aboriginal title has become a constitutional threat
Canada has created a constitutional menace. Property rights, abandoned for political expediency, have no constitutional status. In contrast, aboriginal rights, thanks to our courts, have become more powerful than any Charter right.
Human rights in Canada
A Q&A with professor Bruce Pardy on human rights in Canada: discrimination in the name of equality in the Canadian legal context.
Defending free speech: a call to repeal harmful legislation
Professor Bruce Pardy exposes the irony of government overreach in limiting expression.
The new Alberta Bill of Rights won't protect much
Premier Danielle Smith deserves credit for her aspiration to give Albertans rights to resist state intrusions. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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.
“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.”