A. Alan Borovoy's Columns

2008

• April 16 - Ban Discriminatory Actions Not Inflammatory Words

2006

• March 16 - Hearing Complaint Alters Rights Body's Mandate
• March 10 - The Furore Over Those Danish Cartoons Simply Refuses to Die. Indeed, some of it has migrated to Canada

2005

• April 13 - Child Porn Hysteria

2002

• Sept 9 - Terror Bill as Much a Horror as Its Target
• August 1 - Security's Serpentine Coils
• April 2 - To Protect Civil Liberties, Limit Police Power
• March 28 - Police Powers: BIG MOUNTIE IS WATCHING YOU
• Jan 3 - Latimer has suffered enough, Ms. McLellan

2001

• Nov 20 - Does the Antiterror Bill Go Too Far?
• Oct 12 - New Powers Aren't Really Necessary
• Aug 1 - Police and Politicians: This Alliance Needs Rules, Not a Divorce
• May 8 - Don't Give the Police Carte Blanche (C-24)
• April 3 - Quebec Summit

2000

• Sept 30 - Who Will Police the Police?
• June 1 - When Human Rights Go Too Far
• June 19 - Threat to Freedom in Mental Health Bill

1999

• Porn Law Shouldn't Touch Art

1998

• March 22 - SIU Needs New Ground Rules to Preserve Its Integrity

1997

• Jan 30 - Bill Undermines Already Flawed Complaints Process
• Feb 18 - Electronic monitor bill threatens innocent
• July 11 - Tories out of excuses on Ipperwash affair
• Sept 30 - Bill denies welfare recipients the most fundamental of rights
• Oct 21 - Privacy law unfair to sexual assault suspects
• Nov 6 - Culture, not the law, should muzzle Zundel

1996

• Jan 3 - Deportation Rules Test Canada's Sense of Fairness
• Jan 18 - A Key Reason to Bar Funding to More Religious Schools
• Jan 31 - Spouse in the House Rule a Silly Way to Save Pennies
• Feb 14 - Racism Study Focuses Too Much on Feelings, Not Actions
• Feb 28 - Harnick's Intransigence May Stifle Legitimate Dissent
• Mar 20 - Incomprehensible Picket Laws in Need of Clarification
• Apr 3 - Universities Need Clear, Sound Policy on Sex Harassment
• Apr 17 - Virtue Can Turn to Vice When Goal Pushed Too Hard
• June 5 - Workfare Threatens Dignity of Most Vulnerable
• Oct 7 - Referendums Often Produce Irresponsible Results
• Dec 5 - The Case for Excluding Tainted Evidence

1995

• Jan 11 - Report on CSIS Begs For a Lot More Investigating
• Jan 25 - Examing Why Court Would Ban Bernardo Tapes
• Feb 8 - How the New Left went in the wrong direction
• Feb 22 - House of Commons report on crime cards and board games
• March 8 - Numerical goals of employment equity legislation
• March 22 - SIU needs new ground rules to preserve its integrity
• Apr 5 - The Anguish of Double Standards in Sex Assault Trials
• April 19 - Homophobic Hamiltonians have their day in court
• May 3 - It makes no sense to imperil artists like Eli Langer
• May 17 - Gun control legislation
• May 31 - Irrelevant Harshness Typical of Canadian Justice Style
• June 21 - Basic concept of employment equity law is sound
• July 5 - Rock Should Promote Need for Restraint in Criminal Law
• July 19 - More balance needed between free speech and reputation
• Aug 2 - Louis Lenkinsky and the Jewish Labour Bund
• Aug 16 - Supreme Court Ruling Will Silence Needed Criticism
• Aug 30 - Make the distinction between hate words and deeds
• Sep 13 - We Need More Than Periodic Inquiries Into Practices
• Sept 27 - RCMP and Native stand-off in British Columbia
• Oct 16 - B.C., Alberta Take Opposite Tacks on Abortion Issue
• Oct 26 - Louis Farrakhan & 1,000,000 man march
• Nov 8 - Shared vision of Canada lost in referendum debate
• Nov 23 - Tories Clearly Sexist in Tying Eligibility to 'Spouse' Rule
• Dec 6 - Disciplining Teachers for What They Do Outside Class
• Dec 20 - Compassion is Undermining Key Democratic Values

1994

• March 2 - Secret information on members of the black community
• March 16 - Harassment in Ontario universities
• May 11 - Reclaim the art of using controversy instead of coercion
• June 8 - Capital punishment & proposed loitering by-law
• June 22 - In defence of officers' right to defend themselves
• July 20 - Funding for religious day schools
• Aug 3 - Deportation of immigrants who commit crimes in Canada
• Aug 31 - Grant Bristow, the Heritage Front, and CSIS
• Sept 14 - The difference one word would make to what CSIS does
• Sept 28 - School board should explain ban on Show Boat
• Oct 12 - Police complaints commission
• Nov 16 - Media access at O.J. Simpson and Paul Bernardo trials

1993

• Jan 4 - Flag foolishness could have serious repercussions
• Jan 18 - Silence not golden for police under investigation
• March 1 - OHRC and pornographic magazines in corner stores
• March 15 - Police advertising release of prisoners on parole
• April 12 - Police wiretapping
• April 26 - Focus on mainstream racism, not fringe groups
• May 10 - Inquiry about teacher sets dangerous precedent
• May 24 - Child pornography bill open to high-handed abuse
• Aug 2 - Emily Post is out of place on picket lines
• Aug 16 - OHRC recommendation for employers and racism on the job
• Aug 30 - Results of random drug testing are positively unfair
• Sept 13 - Loyalty to the court vs. loyalty to human values
• Nov 8 - Jailing of Clayoquot Sound protesters

1992

• Sept 14 - Haste on immigration bill looks suspicious
• Oct 12 - Employment equity bill must resist twin pressures
• Dec 7 - Photographer's case puts military on the defensive