By Naomi Barghiel | Global News Canada Post broke privacy laws by using personal information from the outside of delivered envelopes for a marketing program, the federal privacy watchdog has found. The office of Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a report this week that the data collected by Canada Post for this program includes information about where individuals live and what kind of online shopping they do. The […]
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By Bruce Pardy | Special to National Post The Ontario College of Psychologists can re-educate Jordan Peterson. So said the Ontario Divisional Court on Wednesday. In November 2022, the College ordered Peterson, a prominent public intellectual and emeritus University of Toronto psychology professor, to undergo remedial education because of statements he made on social media. […]
This chapter by Bruce Pardy is included in the book, Canary in a COVID World: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World, edited by C.H. Klotz. The Brownstone Institute reprinted the chapter (published in full below) as a separate piece on August 21, 2023. Anatomy of the Administrative State By Bruce Pardy Do you […]
By Isaac Teo and Jan Jekielek | Published by The Epoch Times Technocracy, a form of governance where decision-making is left to a group of technical experts, has become deeply entrenched in governments globally and is doing more harm than good for the people, according to law professor Bruce Pardy. “It’s the crowning achievement so […]
The Triumph of the Administrative State: A wide-ranging discussion with Bruce Pardy and Jan Jekielek for American Thought Leaders [see video] focused on the Canadian experience. The administrative state succeeded beyond its wildest dreams thanks to the rupture of COVID, when Canada’s nanny state became extreme and people succumbed in ways they would not have […]
Bruce Pardy surveys the descent of Canada’s legal system into Alice-in-Wonderland surrealism, a state that poses dangers to virtually every Canadian and to the future of the rule of law itself. By Bruce Pardy, published by C2C Journal To hold themselves together, societies tell themselves stories. People are honest; marriages are faithful; parents are devoted […]
Bruce Pardy in conversation with journalist Trish Wood on the lessons of COVID-19 under a managerial state. “In a way,” says Bruce, “the biggest obstacle and biggest trauma has been our own disbelief” that a system and society we thought we knew was one we no longer recognized. The transformation began before the pandemic but […]
Bruce Pardy is one of a number of witnesses who have stepped up to testify at a citizen-led inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response. The purpose of the citizen-funded initiative is to investigate independently what went right and what went wrong with the responses and actions to COVID-19 taken by our governments across Canada, and to look […]
A two-parter! Bruce Pardy and Barry W. Bussey rake over the final word from the Emergencies Act inquiry – the Rouleau report. Bruce concludes that the inquiry served as a “cleansing process” for the justification of implementing the Emergencies Act: a process that produced a “performance” if not an outcome. The conversation continues from part […]
Courts are likely to defer to public institutions to act in whatever way they deem to be in the public good.