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Alberta to apply sovereignty act to try to thwart federal clean-electricity plan

By Sean Silcoff | Published by The Globe and Mail Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s promise to apply the sovereignty act to protect provincial power companies from proposed federal clean-electricity regulations is a move Ottawa argues is at odds with continuing “good faith” federal-provincial talks. Continue reading at the publisher’s website here Update: The premier did […]

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Freedom

Freedom and Virtue: Friends or Enemies?

By Bruce Pardy | Published by The Brownstone Institute | Included in The Epoch Times US Edition There’s an elephant in the room, the speaker declared. He was right. I was at a gathering, as I often am, of people who aspire to rescue their countries from descending into woke, collectivist hell. But the attendees […]

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Canary In a Covid World

Canary In a Covid World: Missed reading this collection of 34 essays from contemporary and credentialed thought leaders on how Covid propaganda and censorship changed our world? Now you can listen to it! The audio version entered the listening stream this week and is available for purchase from Amazon, Apple Books and Audible. Every chapter is read by […]

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Freedom Uncategorized

The Munk debate on the crisis of liberalism

By Bruce Pardy | Published by Brownstone Institute On Friday, George Will squared off against Sohrab Ahmari in the Munk debate on “the crisis of liberalism.” But the crisis didn’t come up.  Will is a prominent conservative commentator who writes for the Washington Post. Ahmari is an author, editor, and publisher who has advocated for […]

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Freedom Uncategorized

Professions are the Cartels of our Managerial Age

By Bruce Pardy | Published by Brownstone Institute Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill is a pediatric allergist in Toronto. She condemned COVID rules as irrational, political, harmful, and inconsistent with scientific data. In the eyes of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), Gill was dangerous.  In 2021, the CPSO issued three “cautions” (formal […]

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Don’t expect Liberals to accept ‘no’ for an answer on the ‘no more pipelines’ act

By Bruce Pardy | Published by National Post Last week the Supreme Court of Canada issued a decision that was boring. That’s great news, and a bit unexpected. A five-to-two majority held much of the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) to be unconstitutional. That’s boring because it’s straightforward and correct. The court did its job […]

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Freedom

Pack Animals

Counterpoint with Tanya Granic Allen | Guest Bruce Pardy The discussion for this episode focuses on Canada’s culture wars. A recent National Post piece, authored by Bruce Pardy, characterizes the five culture war factions identified by an Angus Reid study as animal caricatures. Those caricatures are as follows: “zealous activists” (wolves), “quiet accommodators” (sheep), the […]

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Freedom Lockdowns Pandemic Uncategorized

Repressive tolerance

Trish Wood | On the Fringe Guest: Bruce Pardy Many of us think we are still living in a Western liberal democracy with “a fairly open economy” in a society where “there are certain values that we more or less hold to be true,” but, says law professor Bruce Pardy, “in many respects, that world […]

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Freedom Pandemic

Living in Leviathan

Liberty Dispatch | September 12, 2023 Law professor Bruce Pardy joins hosts Andrew DeBartolo and Matthew Hallick to discuss his recent article published by the Brownstone Institute, “The Anatomy of the Administrative State.” What is it? And how does it undermine principles of freedom and self-governance? How can we fight back? Tune in! Background Reading: […]

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Freedom

Woke wolves dominate the culture war ecosystem — for now

By Bruce Pardy | Special to National Post Canada is unravelling. Culture wars are making the country stupid, poor and fractured — and according to Angus Reid, these fractures have produced five distinct groups. Last week, the Angus Reid Institute released a study on the bubbling, sometimes boiling, political conflicts in Canada. The study characterized […]