Peter McKnight

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Recent work

• Canadians are proud of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So why is it under threat?Opinion · Toronto Star · Sep 29, 2025
• There’s something crucial missing from the province’s addiction treatment plansOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 29, 2025
• Peter McKnight: Fear of forgetting, or being forgotten, is an epidemicOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 13, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Why have a United Nations if it's unwilling to fulfill its primary purpose?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 30, 2023
• Peter McKnight: New hope for Canadians wrongfully convicted of crimes that never happenedOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 16, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Yes, two plus two equals four, but how equations are used counts, tooOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 2, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Mounties and minister need to stop bickering and focus on evidence on neck restraintsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 17, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Vaccine skepticism has caused countless deaths — actually that's countable deathsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 10, 2023
• McKnight: Vaccine skepticism has caused countless deaths — actually that's countable deathsOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Feb 10, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Trudeau has good reason to limit use of the notwithstanding clauseOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 27, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Trudeau has good reason to limit use of the notwithstanding clauseOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Jan 26, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Destruction of statues does not equate to destruction of historyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 19, 2023
• McKnight: Destruction of statues does not equate to destruction of historyOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Jan 19, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Politics and the postmodern PinocchioOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 12, 2023
• Peter McKnight: Restorative justice can help victims — but only if they know about itOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 15, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Any changes to law on human gene editing should be after public consultationOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 8, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Any changes to law on human gene editing should be after public consultationOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Dec 8, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Crisis care should begin when people first seek help — with 911Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 24, 2022
• Peter McKnight: What about the right to live with dignity?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 17, 2022
• McKnight: What about the right to live with dignity?Opinion · Ottawa Citizen · Nov 17, 2022
• McKnight: What about the right to live with dignity?Opinion · Montreal Gazette · Nov 17, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Supreme Court misses opportunity to address Indigenous imprisonment rateOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 10, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Supreme Court misses opportunity to address Indigenous imprisonmentOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Nov 8, 2022
• Peter McKnight: One rule change could prevent upwards of half of all concussions in youth hockeyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 27, 2022
• Peter McKnight: One rule change could prevent up to half of all concussions in youth hockeyOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Oct 27, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Stigma of a criminal record keeps offenders from reintegrating into societyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 20, 2022
• McKnight: Stigma of a criminal record keeps offenders from reintegrating into societyOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Oct 20, 2022
• Peter McKnight: A new 'study' gives yet more oxygen to the anti-vax movementOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 13, 2022
• McKnight: This anti-vax 'study' might look scientific, but it's not good scienceOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Oct 13, 2022
• Peter McKnight: How abuse of boys played a role in the Taliban’s eventual triumphOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Oct 6, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Entire process that led to Myles Sanderson's release needs to be investigatedOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 22, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Research shows risk of harm, lack of benefits from compulsory drug treatmentOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 16, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Involuntary treatment after multiple overdoses isn't the answerOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 9, 2022
• Peter McKnight: When a little learning doesn’t go a long wayOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 26, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Defining death a matter that Canada’s Parliament must addressOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 19, 2022
• Peter McKnight: HIV non-disclosure law has unintended effectsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 11, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Disease as punishment metaphor increased suffering for those with cancer and AIDSOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Aug 8, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Do we matter anymore?Opinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 22, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Report finds criminal law causes harm to sex workers but fails to recommend repealing itOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 15, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Naturopath's lawyer offers unusual defence after ban on fecal transplants to treat autismOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 8, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Legislatures — and legislators — ought to bear the brunt of pro-choice activists’ outrageOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 1, 2022
• Peter McKnight: The day of sentient AI is coming, and we're not readyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 16, 2022
• Peter McKnight: 'Winning is everything' culture of elite sports in Canada has become a national scandalOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 10, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Elimination of any chance at parole declared unconstitutionalOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 3, 2022
• Peter McKnight: People shouldn't be excused for what they do as a result of voluntary intoxicationOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 20, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Fetishization of life prompts timely examination of our rightsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 13, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Police attending mental health incidents remains a stumbling blockOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 6, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Why we'll never find happiness living, laughing and loving in the metaverseOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 29, 2022
• Peter McKnight: New law criminalizes Holocaust denial, but the problem of publicity remainsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 22, 2022
• McKnight: New law criminalizes Holocaust denial, but the problem of publicity remainsOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Apr 22, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Ending mask mandates in schools beyond foolhardyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 15, 2022
• Peter McKnight: The disconnect between Canada's treatment of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees is jarringOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 1, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Critique of transgender athlete implies the controversy is a matter of biologyOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 22, 2022
• Peter McKnight: What we’re doing to stem the tide of drug toxicity deaths clearly isn’t workingOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 15, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Declaring when pandemics begin — or end — is ultimately a political matter, not a scientific oneOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 11, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Evidence highlights the folly of reflexively attributing violence to mental illnessOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 3, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Human and animal personhood need not be at loggerheadsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 25, 2022
• Peter McKnight: In the topsy-turvy mirror universe of the 'freedom' convoy, anarchy means freedomOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 16, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Medicine ceases to be medicine if it becomes a penal system based on past behaviourOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 1, 2022
• Peter McKnight: Crime in Vancouver not at all-time high, despite perceptionOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 25, 2022