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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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Jordan Peterson against the tyranny of the administrative state

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. […]

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Tune in and don’t tune out

The Hrvoje Moric Show: Bruce Pardy joins the conversation at the 19:10 mark to discuss the age of democracy and to consider the possibility that it may be ending. As we bear witness, the cornerstones of society – the legislature, courts and state – have signed over their power to a technocratic, bureaucratic machinery that […]

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Selective punishment

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 […]

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Freedom Pandemic

NCI panel says court failures suggest foreboding future

An online panel of lawyers organized by the National Citizens Inquiry on COVID-19 said the courts have failed to uphold Canadian rights since the pandemic began and a bleak future awaits. Lawyer Shawn Buckley described the Canadian experience as “the largest intrusion of government overreach into our personal lives, even in wartime,” without the courts […]

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Freedom Pandemic

How Canada’s secular religion of cultural self-hate took hold

By Bruce Pardy | Special to National Post Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in human affairs produced the scientific method and later the Industrial Revolution. Add in the rule of law, individual liberty, private property and capitalism, and you have the basic […]

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Legal canons and social fables: The law in Canada has never been perfect but now it is losing its way

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 […]

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China Freedom

A lock on intelligence

Patricia Adams joins Global News’ Shaye Ganam to dig deeper into Canada’s role as an easy mark for manipulation by a foreign power. In the wake of the so-called public inquiry into China’s interference in our democracy, many are left wondering: how was a foreign dictatorship able to influence the politics of our country? Probe […]

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On the Fringe

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 […]

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Law Society rebellion has been vanquished. Long live the equity revolution!

By Bruce Pardy | Special to National Post It was a full sweep. On Monday, establishment candidates defeated a slate of reformers to win all 45 lawyer and paralegal seats on the board of the Ontario Law Society. Four years earlier, the reformers won 22 seats, just enough to repeal a “Statement of Principles” (SOP) […]