The Pardy School of Law

How the law works, and how it doesn’t.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock