The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
The WHO’s managerial gambit
The WHO’s proposed new international pandemic agreement and amendments to International Health Regulations will make the next public health emergency worse. Not because they override sovereignty, but because they will protect domestic authorities from responsibility.
WHO health treaty a convenient cover for more government overreach
Draft agreement includes a commitment to censoring 'false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation'. Bruce Pardy on proposed amendments to International Health Regulations.
Freedom Defender of the Week: Prof. Bruce Pardy
Leave the regulation of expression to the laws of the land, and not to overzealous student groups or busybody university administrators.
Don't give campus censors more power — they'll double down on woke agenda
'Progressive' antisemites won't be punished, but everyone else will. Bruce Pardy looks at the double standard on campuses that’s distracting from a larger mistake.
Muzzled but not gagged
Free speech advocates speak out at ‘Canada’s Free Speech Crisis’ event on topics ranging from the Freedom Convoy protest to the ongoing debate surrounding biological sex.
Canada's free speech crisis with Meghan Murphy, Trish Wood and Bruce Pardy
Freethinkers and free speech enthusiasts gathered in Toronto to share their thoughts on the current landscape of thought policing in Canada and what free speech truly means in a free and democratic nation.
Alberta to apply sovereignty act to try to thwart federal clean-electricity plan
Alberta is “on good ground constitutionally”. ~ Bruce Pardy
Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies?
There’s an elephant in the room but not everyone sees it.
“Exclusively black” theatre argues white complainant can’t claim racial discrimination
“Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, every person has a right to equal treatment without discrimination. However, the Code has a loophole for ‘special programs,’ which discriminate in favour of the “correct” groups.”
The Munk debate on the crisis of liberalism
No debate could have demonstrated better the West’s crisis of liberalism than the Munk debate on the crisis of liberalism.
Professions are the Cartels of our Managerial Age
Professional cartels benefit the bullies who run them.
Don't expect Liberals to accept 'no' for an answer on the 'no more pipelines' act
The Trudeau government appears determined to block resource development.
York sends its free speech report to the HEQCO
Legal experts like Bruce Pardy argue that the government’s directive on campus free speech “contains the right ideas, but takes the wrong approach.”
Woke wolves dominate the culture war ecosystem — for now
The masses, a herd of sheep and ostriches, follow at their own risk.
Jordan Peterson against the tyranny of the administrative state
Bruce Pardy: Our modern system of government has moved. Moved away from the rule of law back towards rule by executive fiat. Judicial deference grants control not to a monarch but to a professional managerial class. That deference empowers the tyranny of the administrative state.
Anatomy of the administrative state
Unlike COVID, which transformed society with a fury, the administrative state triumphed slowly over many decades. Its exact origins and timing are matters of debate. Bruce Pardy examines the Anatomy of the Administrative State in a chapter for the new book release, Canary in a COVID World: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World.
'Shifting Legal Ground': Law professor weighs in on technocracy entrenched in government
Bruce Pardy challenges the belief that a technocratic government will benefit society. “If the failure is so obvious during COVID, what makes you think that they'd be any good at very many other things?”
NCI panel says court failures suggest foreboding future
What makes our decade different, says Bruce Pardy, is that legislators, bureaucrats, and the judiciary “agree in the way we should proceed” and view civil liberties as “just getting in the way.”
How Canada’s secular religion of cultural self-hate took hold
Bruce Pardy: Critical theory, postmodernism, social justice and critical race theory have morphed into the dominant ideology.
Bruce Pardy: The four doctrines of the apocalypse: critical theory and our compromised institutions
The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia but cultural self-hate. No coup is more effective than one committed by a people against itself.