In Brief by Probe Media In his thought-provoking new book, The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back), accomplished producer and broadcaster David Cayley explores the decline of the institution he dedicated more than four decades to. In this discussion with Tara Henley of the Lean Out podcast, Cayley […]
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The Liberty Exchange: In conversation with Professor Bruce Pardy, host Jonathan Fortier examines the erosion of key libertarian principles through the lens of the pandemic experience. Prof. Pardy credits the one upside of Covid-19 as the moment when the coercive role of the administrative state finally revealed itself. That rupture marked a turning point for […]
By Chandra Philip | Published by The Epoch Times A new documentary is taking a deeper look at the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact lockdowns had on Canadian society, and the resulting fallout from public health restrictions. [See here for information about the premiere screening on May 9, including a panel discussion featuring Bruce Pardy of […]
Reality Check Radio: New Zealand journalist and film-maker Alistair Harding [director of ‘We Came Here for Freedom’ – a two-part film about the 2022 Wellington parliament occupation protest] compares notes with legal mind Bruce Pardy on the pandemic experiences of New Zealand and Canada. Alistair recalls instances in which the New Zealand government was found […]
What happened to society’s broad agreement about government overreach, the legal definition of certain words and a political landscape that once included a middle ground? In this podcast episode of “Grey Matter,” constitutional lawyer Leighton Grey and lawyer Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe discuss the obvious divide in our political system and how villainizing each […]
The extraordinary account by acclaimed independent investigative journalist, Jiang Xue, detailing the unprecedented lockdown of the city of Xi’an.
An increase of over 25% was detected in both call types during January–May 2021, compared with the years 2019–2020. Using Negative Binomial regression models, the weekly emergency call counts were significantly associated with the rates of 1st and 2nd vaccine doses administered to this age group but were not with COVID-19 infection rates.
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Liberal democracy – an oxymoron
Some may argue that the pandemic was a once-in-a-century emergency that justified authoritarian methods to keep society safe. With due respect, this is nonsense.
Late last month former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford launched a lawsuit to challenge the federal proof-of-Covid-19-vaccine requirement for air travel. Peckford, the last surviving political architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, said that governments are ignoring the Charter with their pandemic rules and creating a constitutional crisis. If anything, that understates the trouble Canada is in. Bruce Pardy provides a bracing evaluation of how the Charter actually operates in an era of expansive government and imaginative jurists.
The land of common sense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions.