The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
B.C.’s plan to ‘reconcile’ by giving First Nations a veto on land use
UNDRIP-inspired land law reforms are poised to turn B.C. into an untenable host for mining, forestry and much more.
The WHO and phony international law
Agreements will override national sovereignty because their provisions will be binding, say critics. But international law is the art of the Big Pretend. Bruce Pardy investigates.
Canada vs. Jordan Peterson
In his willingness to fight back, Jordan Peterson, a polemicist who is unafraid, represents “a problem for the mob and a danger to a system that relies on cultural repression to advance its agenda.”
Federal Court judge pulls Canada back from the brink
The decision may help to pull Canada back from the brink of authoritarian rule, but there’s a wrinkle in the works.
What if? And who to trust?
If the WEF and WHO have their way with censorship, nobody will know what's really going on in the world. Independent journalist Keri Molloy finds confusion abounds over national and individual sovereignty. Professor Pardy sounds the alarm.
Jordan Peterson: Bureaucrats will rue the day they tried to shut me up
The appeal rejected, what now? Jordan Peterson vows: “We’re going to perform that dance on the international stage, with all that light shining on your machinations, and you may well come to rue the day you attempted to take possession of my tongue.”
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.
“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.”