Ezra Levant of Rebel News in conversation with Professor Bruce Pardy, executive director of Rights Probe and law professor at Queen’s University. “What is more rare, a unicorn or a freedom-loving law professor actually hired by a university in Canada?” So begins Ezra Levant’s interview with Prof. Pardy on his work as a 24/7 freedom […]
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Your free speech is gone?
The Political Orphans with guest Professor Bruce Pardy: Bill C-9 and Bill C-63. Do we want the state in our heads ruling over our most profound convictions? The legislative assault on faith is part of a broader social justice agenda that seeks to dismantle traditional power structures, replacing religious belief with state authority and undermining […]
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Tiny Township’s feudal fiasco
In Brief by Probe Media With a population of 13,000 permanent residents, the picturesque township of Tiny on the serene shores of southern Georgian Bay has become a hotbed of government overreach and public outcry. Rebel News recently reported on a fiery protest in Tiny over a new multi-million dollar administration facility that many locals […]
By Bruce Pardy | The Fraser Institute It’s been 800 years since the Magna Carta. Governments everywhere now aspire to tear down the concept that it helped establish: the rule of law. Last week, British Columbia’s NDP government introduced the Economic Stabilization (Tariff Response) Act, also known as Bill 7, which would allow Premier David Eby and his […]
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 […]
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Dangerous speech
Host Obaid Omer and guest Bruce Pardy dig into government overreach. Bruce describes the root of the issue as the mandate itself. People object to the problem of overreach without recognizing that the government has been given the mandate to supervise us, he says. Did cohorts, in particular Gen X, who came of age during […]
The Tyranny of the Administrative State: Bruce Pardy recaps his presentation to the National Citizens’ Inquiry into Canada’s Covid-19 response for Just Right Media and host, Robert Vaughan. Why did the legal system fail to protect our civil liberties during Covid? One of the main takeaways from the Covid debacle is the triumph of the […]
What we have now is a dependent population, economically and psychologically.
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.
Privacy forms the foundation of our freedom. You cannot have freedom in society without a solid foundation of privacy.