EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — The Alberta government has invoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth and adults. It’s the ...

Premier Danielle Smith and other government ministers talk about the passing of Bill 2, which invoked the notwithstanding clause in forcing teachers back to work. (Credit: Greg Southam) I have a ...

Quebec’s right-wing, avowedly pro-big business Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government has tabled legislation in the National Assembly renewing its use of the Canadian constitution’s anti-democratic ...

That was the purpose of the notwithstanding clause in our constitution. Section 33 provided Parliament and our legislatures ...

A clip of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking about his opposition to the notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights has been taken out of context and shared online, with social media ...

Tom Axworthy says he is no longer surprised when he learns that a provincial government has used the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to overturn or pre-empt a ...

Without the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, courts not only interpret laws, they are allowed to make them. (Credit: Adrian Wyld) Last week’s attacks by Alberta’s ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is vowing to use the notwithstanding clause to allow judges to impose consecutive life sentences for mass murderers — a practice the Supreme Court of Canada has ...

Sheema Khan is the author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman. In its relentless march toward laïceté, the Quebec government is now using a clause in Canada’s Charter of ...

The notwithstanding clause back is under the spotlight. Copies of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Credit: Marc Lostracci / https://commons.wikimedia.org ...

I have a somewhat unusual relationship with Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Its existence is sometimes credited to former premier Peter Lougheed and Peter Meekison, and I sat at the ...

2:04 Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause again to stop court challenges of transgender laws The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a ...