The Pardy School of Law
How the law works, and how it doesn’t.
At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others
Remember that the next time you're waiting to see your newly minted doctor.
A Right to Unequal Treatment: In Canada, some people are more equal than others
Equality rights in Canada have become weapons wielded by preferred groups to demand advantageous outcomes.
Who is the deep state and is it in Canada?
Bruce Pardy looks at why the legal system is not working the way it should, as well as the impact of the deep state, and how governments are being compromised.
Canada’s Cold War
In 1972, Team Canada was fighting for our way of life against an adversary who sought to tear it down. That foe is back and, this time, our team has switched sides.
Corporate Canada betrayed capitalism. Now it has been betrayed
Canadian business leaders eagerly jumped on the climate and ESG bandwagons. Bill C-59 has pushed them off. New from Bruce Pardy.
WHO’s on first
The game of Global Public Health is not played on a baseball diamond. But the game is real, and so are the players. Who made the team, who’s out, who’s up to bat, and what’s the goal? Bruce Pardy breaks it down.
We approach state singularity
We are approaching the moment when state and society become indistinguishable, and legal norms and expectations irrelevant. How do we escape?
Rise of the all-powerful administrative state heralded Canada's internet crackdown
Bill C-63, the Liberal government’s online harms act, would give an overpowered bureaucracy further control over our lives.
Canada’s constitutional mistake
How the rule of law gave way to the managerial state. New from Bruce Pardy.
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau creates blueprint for dystopia in horrific speech bill
Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It’s all in Justin Trudeau’s “Online Harms Act,” a true “threat to democracy.”
Experts warn that Trudeau insists on approving "the most totalitarian bill in the West"
Psychologists, law professors and legislators denounce C-63 as an “attack on the very idea of freedom of expression.”
Jordan Peterson, Canadian lawyer warn of ‘totalitarian’ impact of Trudeau’s ‘Online Harms’ bill
Bruce Pardy and Konstantin Kisin join Jordan Peterson to unpack Bill C-63, or as Jordan describes it: “the most totalitarian Western bill I’ve ever seen by quite a large margin and in multiple dimensions.”
‘When science is censored’: new film looks at the fallout of public health lockdown orders
An investigative film premiering in May looks at how decisions led to lockdown during Covid, and to the coverup of the origin of the virus.
Our rotten, rotting universities
The Dissident Herd of Cats is an indication of the absolute and utter rot of the universities.
Withdrawal of BC’s proposed Land Act changes is a triumph of democracy and common sense
This is only the latest episode in the feckless and invertebrate failure of our governments to produce and enact a serious plan to address legitimate grievances of the indigenous people.
No taxation without representation? Canadian judges aren't buying that
Despite our own long tradition of “no taxation without representation,” courts in Canada increasingly dictate to governments how to spend taxpayer dollars.
The virtue in liberty
A continuing conversation: the work to defend freedom and whether traditionalists and libertarians can find ways to join together in its defense.
With recent rulings, courts cast aside traditional deference to executive, legislative branches
Are federally appointed judges standing up more to the executive and legislative branches in Ottawa or does a departure from the default of deference depend on whether decisions are progressive or not?
Yes, BC’s Land Act changes give First Nations veto over use of Crown land
Nathan Cullen says there’s no veto. But Cullen has a problem. Any activity that requires your consent is an activity over which you have a veto.
Bruce Pardy: A letter to my ‘TERF’ friends
A double standard that became the ethos of modern social justice turns the tables on the politics of inclusion.
“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.”