Alberta's Bill 9 invokes the Canadian constitution’s anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause”— which allows governments to ...

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 ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government is increasingly willing to use the notwithstanding clause to counter ...

Alberta’s fall legislature sitting ended this week with a fierce clash over rights, democracy and the use of the notwithstanding clause.

While most countries allow for reasonable limits to be placed on individual rights, Canada’s notwithstanding clause allows governments, rather than courts, to decide which liberties can be suspended ...

The Alberta Legislature has finally wrapped up its fall sitting. And what an extraordinary sitting it has been—in all the worst ways.

The Alberta government has invoked the province's notwithstanding clause for the fourth time, passing a contentious bill that directly impacts the transgender community. Those laws will police names ...

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 ...

Quebec Premier François Legault announced on Wednesday that his government is prepared to use the so-called “notwithstanding clause” to require doctors trained in that Canadian province to start their ...

The Bloc Québécois (BQ) took advantage of a recent “opposition day” in the federal parliament to table a motion calling on the House of Commons to “remind the [Justin Trudeau-led Liberal] government ...