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 […]
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A constitution for Alberta
“This independence movement in Alberta is really like a moment in time that doesn’t come up very often in the life of civilizations. Alberta has the potential to… correct the path of Western civilization… If it is missed, it won’t come back again for a long time.” ~ Bruce Pardy Nat & The Guy: Rather […]
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Canada is cooked
By John Schwartzentruber, published by Farmers Forum Go to the publisher’s website here to read this recap in full. Summary A recap of a no-holds-barred evening hosted by the Upper Canada Land Titles & Patent Research Initiative on April 11. What started as a deep dive into property rights and constitutional law quickly turned into […]
Brave New Normal, Ep. 126, hosted by Jason James with guest law professor Bruce Pardy. In Brief by Probe Media Canada’s political culture and Westminster system were never built on liberty. Rooted instead in “peace, order and good government,” this quintessential Canadian phrase emphasizing stability over individualism fostered deference to authority. The outcome is a managerial […]
June 19, 2025: In his address to a Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) panel discussion on the rise of antisemitism and ideological extremism in Canada and the West, professor Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe cited a February 2022 column on the portrayal of the peaceful trucker convoy protest as “seditionists and terrorists”. The author of that piece […]
Shaun Newman Podcast: Prof. Bruce Pardy continues the conversation he sparked earlier in the month when he proposed a hypothetical independent Alberta should also separate itself from special status for Aboriginal people, arguing Aboriginal rights undermine the principle of legal equality by granting race-based privileges. This discussion walks further out to explore tensions between Canada’s […]
By Bruce Pardy | Published by The Brownstone Institute | First published by The Epoch Times Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, […]
The Real Citizen Podcast: Canada is a country in crisis that long predates Donald Trump’s provocations. The Trump disruption, however, has ignited fundamental conversations that are overdue and immensely valuable. For example, when we’re not defining ourselves in opposition to America, who are we? What does “Canadian” mean? Prof. Bruce Pardy breaks down what has […]
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 […]
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Left vs. Right
Making Sense of the Political Ecosystem Nadine Ness, founder of Saskatchewan’s Unified Grassroots, a group concerned with civil liberties formed during Covid, invites Bruce Pardy, a professor of law at Queen’s University and the executive director of Rights Probe, to explain changes in the political ecosystem that her group [and many of us] have grappled […]