Tribunal said white people cannot claim discrimination.

The LSO bencher elections used to fairly ho-hum until SOP (a diversity and equity statement of principles). This year’s election not only has the SOP issue at its centre, but seemingly a whole parcel of issues connected to the “culture wars” of today.

Canadian regulators are imposing a new standard of professional practice. It threatens not just lawyers but professionals of all kinds, as well as every Canadian who might someday need their services.

The fight over the law society's statement of principles may be a microcosm of the fractious political clashes happening across our society, but it’s also a battle that raises a fundamental question: is there anywhere left in society that remains free of the culture war?

But not in the way you might think.

“Competence is being reimagined through a political lens, and a new standard of practice is emerging: be woke, be quiet, or be accused of professional misconduct.” ~ Bruce Pardy

The #FullStop Team formally announces the launch of its campaign for the 2023 Law Society Bencher elections, to be held this April.

Courts are likely to defer to public institutions to act in whatever way they deem to be in the public good.

Lawyers are the last line of defence against authoritarian orthodoxy, but the law society sees it otherwise. Bruce Pardy sounds the alarm on ideological infection.

Once a singular focus on making profits comes to be regarded as unacceptable, business decisions will no longer belong to companies to make on their own. Bruce Pardy on ESG’s threat to capitalism and freedom.

In the belief they are doing good, business leaders pursuing the green Frankenstein of ESG are undermining free society. A new paper by Bruce Pardy.

Bruce Pardy: Alberta and Saskatchewan, with their oil, guns, populism, and a culture of self-reliance, are Ottawa’s adversaries all rolled into one.

“Professional regulators have become ideological.”

“Canada is no longer a robust political state founded on tradition and constitutional order but a withered relic of a former parliamentary democracy.”

God help us when we have a real emergency.

Bill 1 is a sign that “Alberta is not satisfied with the way the Canadian federation is working.” ~ Bruce Pardy

Only in a country with fragile, hysterical leadership could the trucker convoy be regarded as an emergency justifying the infringement of civil liberties. Bruce Pardy for Inside Policy.

In Canada, like elsewhere, universities have become ideological institutions. But without genuine commitment to free/open enquiry on contentious subjects, there is no reason for them to exist. This 2020 paper by Bruce Pardy has renewed in vigour for 2022.

Whatever the Trudeau government and the Federal Housing Advocate may claim about the invented new right to housing, efforts to banish capitalism from rental housing will inevitably leave tenants far worse off.

Brave people who said "no" meet in a small Cape Breton town.