Loans made outside normal parliamentary channels and held offshore may soon find themselves less likely to be repaid. By Patricia Adams, Special to Financial Post In Brief A Nairobi courtroom is testing whether billions in sovereign debt can simply be declared illegitimate—and if citizens should ever have to repay loans they never approved and never […]
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By Bruce Pardy, published by The Brownstone Institute This piece, published on July 16, is a longer, expanded “director’s cut” version of a National Post article by Professor Pardy, published on July 4. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation […]
By Probe International Police swooped on Hong Kong’s “Have A Nice Stay” bookstore on July 15, handcuffing staff and hauling away boxes of books suspected of “seditious intention.” The shop, founded in 2022 by former journalists, specialized in titles on media literacy, democratic development, and authoritarianism, while serving as a rare gathering spot for civil society in […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by the National Post It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States was the land of the free. Limited government. Checks and balances. Separation of powers. The Bill of Rights. But America has instead become a managed society. Its government dominates the lives of its people. How did it […]
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The IRGC’s October surprise
By Lawrence Solomon, published by Jewish News Syndicate Go to the publisher’s website here to read the original version of this commentary. Pro-Israel supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran—most prominently, Victor Davis Hanson—dismiss the president’s apparent appeasement of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and distancing from Israel by pointing to […]
By Vlad Tepes, published by RAIR Foundation USA In Brief by Probe Media A decision to allow a mosque in Regina to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for about three minutes every Friday at noon via rooftop speakers has sparked noise complaints from residents, online criticism, and what the mosque called abusive messages and […]
By Bruce Pardy, published by the Western Standard Alberta should heed the lessons of Brexit. So suggests Ian Cooper, a senior research fellow at Dublin City University’s Brexit Institute. In May, the CBC published a piece citing Cooper’s sense of déjà vu. “I think that Brexit has a lot of lessons to teach Albertans about […]
A six-month reconciliation shock reveals deeper problems with billing accuracy and who ultimately pays for the utility’s “unaccounted for gas.” By Energy Probe Mississauga, Ont. — Behkam Shargh, like many homeowners, prides himself on paying his bills promptly and accurately. But in May 2026, Enbridge Gas hit him with a sudden $541 catch-up bill covering six […]
By Bruce Pardy for the Fraser Institute In late May, the Supreme Court of Canada ducked. Six months earlier, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decided that Aboriginal title could not be declared against private property. The Aboriginal claimants tried to appeal to the Supreme Court. On May 28, the Court declined to hear the case. That doesn’t mean […]
The Canadian Real Estate Investor — host Daniel Foch in conversation with Bruce Pardy. Canadian law remains dangerously unclear on how Aboriginal title intersects with private fee simple ownership, leaving landowners, investors, and Indigenous groups in limbo. The Supreme Court of Canada recently declined to hear an appeal by the Wolastoqey Nation regarding Aboriginal title […]