Sen. David Richards

David Adams Richards is an award-winning novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and poet based in New Brunswick. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award in both the fiction and non-fiction categories and he is a winner of the Giller Prize. He is a member of the Order of New Brunswick and the Order of Canada, and was appointed to the Senate in 2017.

Sen. David Richards: Amid Book-Banning Trend, the English Language Itself Is Now the Culprit

September 20, 2023 Viewpoints
Sen. David Richards: Battles Are Won Before They Are Fought

March 16, 2023 Viewpoints
Sen. David Richards: Bill C-11 Takes Us Into the Very Realms We Have Fought to Depose Over the Last 70 Years

February 2, 2023 Viewpoints
Sen. David Richards: Those Who Are Going After Jordan Peterson Are in Fact After Us

January 16, 2023 Viewpoints
Sen. David Richards: The Aggrieved

September 13, 2022 Viewpoints
Sen. David Richards: Hockey Icon Don Cherry Deserves the Order of Canada

June 1, 2022 Viewpoints
Our Shared Humanity Already Makes Us Equal, No Need for Odious Perplexities

January 17, 2022 Viewpoints
David Richards: If Ottawa Wants Line 5 to Stay Open, Why Is It Dismissing Energy Ventures in the Rest of Canada?

December 3, 2021 Viewpoints