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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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The J.D. Irving, Limited et al. v. Wolastoqey Nation Case By Probe Media Leaders on the Frontier: The New Brunswick Aboriginal lands case is a landmark legal challenge where six Wolastoqey First Nations sought Aboriginal title to more than half of the province’s land along the Saint John River watershed, including lands owned by seven private companies. […]
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An American not in Paris
By Bruce Pardy for “Canary in a Climate World: Climate Realism vs The Net Zero Myth,” (Chapter 24), produced by Canary House Publishing, now available on Amazon in paperback, hardback, e-book and audio. An American Not in Paris: In Praise of Trump’s Withdrawal In his critique of the Paris Climate Agreement (often just called “Paris”), […]
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The deck is stacked
Tea & Coffee with Paula & Jay (The Lavigne Show): Alberta faces a stark reality—is it possible to become independent if your premier is determined to stop it? Is the October question a procedural dead end dressed up as progress? Law professor Bruce Pardy examines the controversial 10th question scheduled for the upcoming referendum, comparing it […]
By Bruce Pardy, First Principles Substack For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here. Two recent Alberta court decisions do not prohibit an independence referendum. But Danielle Smith is pretending that they do. She is hiding behind them. She and her people have repeatedly said that the May 13 decision from […]