Courts, unlike legislatures, do not have an official opposition. But the 57-year-old Justice Brown was the outspoken leader of the Supreme Court’s unofficial opposition.

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.

The Supreme Court has allowed the philosophy of John Rawls to determine the meaning of ‘fundamental justice’.

The countries of the West are teeming with Chinese spies, and Canada is no exception. But other countries have done something about it.

The “culture war” has been going on within Canadian institutions for a long time. Equity revolutionaries have waged it in a familiar pattern and the Law Society of Ontario is a textbook case.

Pardy: Lawyers are supposed to be the last line of defence for the weak and powerless. It is fascinating to watch the determination of the legal elite to maintain their own power, and to condemn anyone who criticizes it.

The Ontario Law Society’s bencher election is a lynchpin round two, with both sides more deeply entrenched in their positions today than they were in 2019, writes Barbara Kay.

Harper Collins is removing references to physique, race and ethnicity in new editions of the hugely popular mystery novels by Agatha Christie. Bruce Pardy looks at literary revisionism and the age of the “dedicated program”.

Tribunal said white people cannot claim discrimination.

The LSO bencher elections used to fairly ho-hum until SOP (a diversity and equity statement of principles). This year’s election not only has the SOP issue at its centre, but seemingly a whole parcel of issues connected to the “culture wars” of today.

Canadian regulators are imposing a new standard of professional practice. It threatens not just lawyers but professionals of all kinds, as well as every Canadian who might someday need their services.

The fight over the law society's statement of principles may be a microcosm of the fractious political clashes happening across our society, but it’s also a battle that raises a fundamental question: is there anywhere left in society that remains free of the culture war?

But not in the way you might think.

“Competence is being reimagined through a political lens, and a new standard of practice is emerging: be woke, be quiet, or be accused of professional misconduct.” ~ Bruce Pardy

The #FullStop Team formally announces the launch of its campaign for the 2023 Law Society Bencher elections, to be held this April.

Courts are likely to defer to public institutions to act in whatever way they deem to be in the public good.

Lawyers are the last line of defence against authoritarian orthodoxy, but the law society sees it otherwise. Bruce Pardy sounds the alarm on ideological infection.

Once a singular focus on making profits comes to be regarded as unacceptable, business decisions will no longer belong to companies to make on their own. Bruce Pardy on ESG’s threat to capitalism and freedom.

In the belief they are doing good, business leaders pursuing the green Frankenstein of ESG are undermining free society. A new paper by Bruce Pardy.

Bruce Pardy: Alberta and Saskatchewan, with their oil, guns, populism, and a culture of self-reliance, are Ottawa’s adversaries all rolled into one.