Bruce Pardy

Bruce Pardy is executive director of Rights Probe (RightsProbe.org) and professor of law at Queen’s University. Email: rightsprobe@protonmail.com

Bruce Pardy: Three Judges Forbear COVID’s Hegemony in the Courts

Commentary A year ago in The Epoch Times, I described how Canadian courts were embracing the official COVID ...

Viewpoints October 8, 2022
Bruce Pardy: By Freeing Tamara Lich, the Superior Court Restores Confidence in the Rule of Law

Commentary On July 26, Tamara Lich was released from jail again. Charged with mischief in February for her ...

Viewpoints July 31, 2022
Bruce Pardy: On Speech and Conduct, Repressive Tolerance Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Commentary It’s OK to insult conservatives, truckers, and vaccine skeptics, but it’s not OK to insult Jagmeet Singh, ...

Viewpoints June 4, 2022
Bruce Pardy: Canada’s Charter Was Naive From the Beginning

Commentary I was having lunch with a friend. She was complaining about the man in her life. “He ...

Viewpoints May 2, 2022
Back to the Future: ‘Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve’ Was a Dangerous Mistake From the Beginning

Commentary Editor's note: COVID lockdowns and restrictions for "two weeks to flatten the curve" began two years ago ...

Viewpoints March 26, 2022
After Two Days to Flatten the Bouncy Castle, Canada Needs a New Constitution

Commentary After crowds cheered them on from overpasses and at truck stops from one end of the country ...

Viewpoints March 21, 2022
It’s Time to Drop the Hysteria and Learn to Live With COVID

Commentary For most people, Omicron is a highly contagious cold. Lots will catch it, and most will get ...

Viewpoints January 8, 2022
COVID Is the Virus. Wokeness Is the Disease

Commentary “Willfully blind and recklessly misleading.” Those are just two of the aspersions that law professors have levelled ...

Viewpoints December 19, 2021
They’re Coming for the Kids

Commentary On Nov. 19, Health Canada authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds. Its decision followed ...

Viewpoints November 30, 2021
On COVID, Courts Have Taken a Side

In early September, a Saskatchewan judge did a startling thing. The father of a 12-year-old girl had applied ...

Viewpoints October 11, 2021
At University, Ideological Dissent Is Not Welcome

Commentary Lisa Keogh, a law student at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, was attending an online class when ...

Viewpoints May 29, 2021
The First Obstacle Is Our Confidence That Things Won’t Get Worse

Commentary Between 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built, and 1989 when it came down, many daring escapes ...

Viewpoints April 19, 2021
The Cold War Continues, and Now We Are Losing

Commentary I’m old enough, just barely, to remember watching Paul Henderson score his winning goal against the Soviets ...

Viewpoints December 26, 2020
In Critical Race Theory, White Self-Flagellation Is the Only Choice

Commentary If you are white, have you taken a knee? Many politicians in Western countries have. So have ...

Viewpoints July 24, 2020
Even During a Pandemic, the Needs of the Many Do Not Outweigh the Rights of the Few

Commentary On June 30, 1979, Georgette Malette was seriously injured in a traffic accident near Kirkland Lake, Ontario. ...

Viewpoints April 30, 2020
The Two Kinds of Equality

Commentary The above video is part of a series created by The North Wire. Most people would say ...

Viewpoints April 12, 2020
For Students, Not Being Disabled Is the New Disability

Commentary Last year, Israel’s Ministry of Education released data that reveals how school accommodation for students with mental ...

Viewpoints January 20, 2020
Welcome to Law School, Where Feelings Are More Important Than Facts

Commentary Law school is not for the faint of heart. Students study cases of catastrophic injuries, lost fortunes, ...

Viewpoints December 17, 2019