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 ...
That was the purpose of the notwithstanding clause in our constitution. Section 33 provided Parliament and our legislatures with the power to enact legislation despite the potential for court ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On August 11, 2025, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan (SKCA) released a major decision about section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter), which is colloquially referred to ...
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 ...
OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 18, 2025 /CNW/ - The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is deeply disappointed that the Alberta government has tabled legislation to invoke the notwithstanding clause to interfere in ...
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 ...
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