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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Pandemic Privacy Vaccines

The kids aren’t having it

An important university embarrasses itself, trashes its historic reputation and imperils its students by imposing dangerous vaccine mandates for the campus. Western University is an outlier and students who just recently got the news are pushing back hard against the school’s unscientific decision to require both boosters and masks. Trish Wood – of the Trish […]

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Trudeau, travel and “The Science”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent Covid mandates – specifically on travel bans for those who choose not to get vaccinated – have arguable basis in science, logic, and precedent. Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down with five experts investigating the matter from all angles, including Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe.

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns Pandemic Vaccines

Court documents reveal Canada’s travel ban had no scientific basis

In the days leading up to the mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.

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Freedom & Health Pandemic

Benson and Bussey: Time to reassess the Canadian Judicial Council?

The CJC plays an important role in maintaining the people’s confidence in the judiciary. That trust is undermined when judges fail to show prudence in commenting on the delicate political issues of the day.

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns Pandemic

Totalitarian rule of man replacing neutral rule of law

New kid on the block not rooted in Enlightenment.

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Pandemic Vaccines

COVID and the end of the rational university

Freedom of expression has been described as the most important liberty. But bodily autonomy is more important.

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns Pandemic Privacy Vaccines

A Canadian to an American friend: You think you have it bad? 

Constitutional adherents, civically responsible citizens, conservative democrats, concerned parents fearful for their children, honest lawyers, and physicians — the ore of the nation — have become social pariahs.

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns Pandemic Privacy Vaccines

On speech and conduct, repressive tolerance is a feature, not a bug

It turns out that progressives were less interested in the principle of free speech than in promoting their own values.

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns Pandemic Vaccines

Canada’s judges must guard against bias, say lawyers

“I’ve never seen any judge speak out in such a biased manner about a contentious issue that is likely to be heard by the court.”

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Lockdowns Pandemic

Supreme Court undermined by chief justice condemning freedom convoy

Confidence in the judiciary depends on whether people perceive courts to be genuinely neutral, not merely within a narrow band of progressive consensus.