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Bruce Arthur
Publishing · On our record since 2011
Where this writer stands
Public safety1 piece
Prevention and restraintEnforcement and sentencing
“But what is the counter-argument to harm reduction, imperfect as it is? It's hard to see a conservative alternative beyond moralizing-based policy: a call for more enforcement, the elimination of harm reduction, a massive increase in involuntary treatment, and presumably the use of the notwithstanding clause when involuntary treatment is found to violate the Charter.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- Bruce Arthur: Donald Trump was destroyed in the midterms. It could take a decade to sort through the wreckageOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 5, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Starlink shows why Canada can’t outsource its sovereignty to Elon MuskOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 25, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Elon Musk loves Canadian separatism. He could help further unite our countryOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 23, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Canada’s immigration fight will shape the country’s futureOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 17, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Elon Musk loves Canadian separatism. He could help further unite our countryOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 8, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: B.C. court right to absolve founders of Drug User Liberation FrontOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 30, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Could AI be a trap for humanity? The evidence seems to be piling upOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 24, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Alphonso Davies sits out Canada’s must-win game. ‘I felt a little bit of something’Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 4, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Canada has a chance to change the narrative at the World Cup. They’ll have to earn it against the SwissOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 24, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Donald Trump’s fight with the Pope is one he’s not likely to winOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 13, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Travis Dhanraj aimed to reveal ‘editorial imbalance’ at the CBC. What the former TV host told MPs was more about himOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 12, 2026
- Bruce Arthur: Donald Trump’s reaction to Rob Reiner’s death is vile, even for himOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 15, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: Nothing has been able to bring down Donald Trump so far. There’s reason to hope the Jeffrey Epstein files willOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 15, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: Nothing has been able to bring down Trump so far. There’s reason to hope the Epstein files willOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 14, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birdsOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 8, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: This is how authoritarians attack a stateOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 19, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: Bishop takes king: In the age of Donald Trump, hypocrisy is dead. But as Mariann Budde shows us, courage is notOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 24, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: Bishop takes king: In the age of Donald Trump, hypocrisy is dead. But as Mariann Budde shows us, courage is notOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 23, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: End of Facebook fact-checking another step ahead for gangster governmentOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 7, 2025
- Bruce Arthur: Bluesky may be our chance to build the type of online world that X has abandonedOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 28, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Trump’s popularity has risen among Canada’s Conservatives. When should we start to worry?Opinion · Toronto Star · Oct 28, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: If Ottawa is the town fun forgot — like Toronto, upon a time — can a ‘night mayor’ bring it back?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jun 12, 2024
- If Ottawa is the town fun forgot — like Toronto, upon a time — can a 'night mayor' bring it back?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jun 11, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: TSN’s Darren Dutchyshen was one of one. We’ll be telling Dutchy stories and laughing for yearsOpinion · Toronto Star · May 16, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Pierre Poilievre says one thing. 200 experts refute it. Who to believe?Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 28, 2024
- Pierre Poilievre says one thing. 200 experts refute it. Who to believe?Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 27, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Maybe something’s wrong with Kate Middleton — but something’s definitely wrong with usOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 14, 2024
- Maybe something's wrong with Kate Middleton — but something's definitely wrong with usOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 13, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Debate over serial killers and prison rinks is heavy on outrage, light on factsOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 7, 2024
- Debate over serial killers and prison rinks is heavy on outrage, light on factsOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 6, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Are millennials ready to rule Canada? The transition will be anything but smoothOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 23, 2024
- Are millennials ready to rule Canada? The transition will be anything but smoothOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 22, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Alexei Navalny death: Where was Pierre Poilievre’s outrage at Putin?Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 17, 2024
- Alexei Navalny death: Where was Pierre Poilievre's outrage at Putin?Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 16, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: Why the rebuilding of the Raptors could take years, not weeksOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 8, 2024
- Bruce Arthur: The Raptors make more sense now, and the best player in the Knicks trade might not be OG Anunoby or R.J. BarrettOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 30, 2023
- Bruce Arthur: Christine Sinclair got the goodbye that almost no athlete gets in her final game with Canada SoccerOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 6, 2023
- Bruce Arthur: There’s no way to repay Christine Sinclair for all she’s given Canada and soccer. Thank you will have to doOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 5, 2023
- Imagining how Pierre Poilievre might respond to Preston Manning’s COVID adviceOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 23, 2023
- Tucker Carlson and Danielle Smith will have loads to talk about. And that should worry us allOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 7, 2023
- Canada’s ‘gender ideology’ protests were ugly — but this was the worst partOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 21, 2023
- ‘Leave our kids alone’? How Conservatives are twisting the conversation over trans childrenOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 31, 2023
- Opinion | Why the New York Times dropping its sports section mattersOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 9, 2023
- A 9-year-old girl with short hair was bullied by adults. It’s a warning about the anti-LGBTQ panic in CanadaOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 12, 2023
- Opinion | A 9-year-old girl with short hair was bullied by adults. It’s a warning about the anti-LGBTQ panic in CanadaOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 12, 2023
- Opinion | The attack by Pierre Poilievre and others on safe supply will cost us livesOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 6, 2023
- Opinion | The attack by Pierre Poilievre and others on safe supply will cost us livesOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 6, 2023
- Why CBC isn’t the enemy — no matter what Pierre Poilievre and Elon Musk may thinkOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 11, 2023
- Opinion | Why CBC isn’t the enemy — no matter what Pierre Poilievre and Elon Musk may thinkOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 11, 2023
- Opinion | Toronto is a graveyard of bad ideas. Why is Doug Ford so keen to add to it?Opinion · Toronto Star · Apr 10, 2023
- Opinion | Tucker Carlson says the U.S. should invade Canada. Would we roll out the welcome mat?Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 2, 2023
- Opinion | Our COVID response is on trial in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s bizarre kangaroo courtOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 24, 2023
- Opinion | Trusting the Ford government to get health reform right? That’s a big askOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 17, 2023
- Bruce Arthur: A TV reporter’s ‘vulnerable moment’ sets off the sad spectacle of the anti-vax rage machineOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 9, 2023
- Opinion | A TV reporter’s ‘vulnerable moment’ sets off the sad spectacle of the anti-vax rage machineOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 9, 2023
- Opinion | Dr. Matt Strauss won’t miss public health — and vice versaOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 9, 2023
- Dr. Matt Strauss: wrong man, wrong crisis?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 9, 2023
- Opinion | Ontario isn’t bringing back a mask mandate even to help kids — COVID has beaten it out of usOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 13, 2022
- Opinion | Front-line GTA doctors say hospitals are in as much trouble as ever during COVID. Is there a plan?Opinion · Toronto Star · Oct 27, 2022
- Climate change is humanity’s biggest problem — yet we have never seemed so smallOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 28, 2022