The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
Bruce Pardy: Three judges forbear COVID’s hegemony in the courts
“The list of grievous government mistakes and miscalculations is both endless and notorious. Catching and correcting those mistakes is one of the most important functions of an independent judiciary.”
Western students to appeal decision on privacy rights and booster mandate
In conjunction with lawyer Lisa Bildy of Libertas Law, and Bruce Pardy, executive director of Rights Probe, the Democracy Fund will file an appeal with the Ontario Court of Appeal, asking the court to overturn the decision of Justice Tranquilli.
Shaun Newman Podcast Presents: Bruce Pardy
The Barbarians vs. The New Status Quo. Bruce Pardy joins The Shaun Newman Podcast to discuss the culture shift in ideas.
Free Speech in Medicine
Join the first annual Free Speech in Medicine Conference, Oct. 28-30. Featuring Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe as a guest speaker.
The Democracy Fund files lawsuit against Western University’s booster mandate
The legal filing will allege, among other things, that the University's collection of students' private health information is a breach of privacy laws.
What’s all this about rights?
Join “The Soap Box” this October 23. Featuring Bruce Pardy as the special guest speaker. Presented by The Ideas Institute.
Court documents reveal Canada’s travel ban had no scientific basis
In the days leading up to the mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.
By freeing Tamara Lich, the Superior Court restores confidence in the rule of law
Canadians can see how harshly Lich has been treated compared to those accused of violent offences.
Benson and Bussey: Time to reassess the Canadian Judicial Council?
The CJC plays an important role in maintaining the people’s confidence in the judiciary. That trust is undermined when judges fail to show prudence in commenting on the delicate political issues of the day.
A Canadian to an American friend: You think you have it bad?
Constitutional adherents, civically responsible citizens, conservative democrats, concerned parents fearful for their children, honest lawyers, and physicians — the ore of the nation — have become social pariahs.
On speech and conduct, repressive tolerance is a feature, not a bug
It turns out that progressives were less interested in the principle of free speech than in promoting their own values.
Supreme Court undermined by chief justice condemning freedom convoy
Confidence in the judiciary depends on whether people perceive courts to be genuinely neutral, not merely within a narrow band of progressive consensus.
Alberta Court of Appeal tees up an argument for western separation
The Constitution is a deal. If Alberta and Saskatchewan resolved to leave, could anyone blame them?
Frozen: How Canada’s banks betrayed their customers during the Emergencies Act
That green chair doesn’t look quite so comfy anymore.
Canada’s Charter was naive from the beginning
The Charter’s vagueness allows courts to reign supreme.
The Emergencies Act wasn’t the only sledgehammer
Perhaps the issue was bias against the Freedom Convoy.
Why the Charter doesn’t stop vax mandates
Governments discriminate all the time, Pardy says, and the effectiveness of the Charter is limited.
A tale of two Constitutions: US versus Canada on vaccine mandates
Rights Probe Executive Director and Queen’s University law professor, Bruce Pardy, says that law and politics work differently south of the border.
Back to the future: ‘Two weeks to flatten the curve’ was a dangerous mistake from the beginning
What we have now is a dependent population, economically and psychologically.
After two days to flatten the Bouncy Castle, Canada needs a new Constitution
The way to protect liberty is to reject the legitimacy of the managerial state.
“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.”