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
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