Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — The Alberta government has invoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause to protect from legal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Alberta government has invoked the notwithstanding clause to protect three new laws from any constitutional challenges. Debate ...

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

Thumping their desks and shouting “Hear, hear!,” the legislators of Alberta’s governing far-right United Conservative Party (UCP) passed Bill 9 in the middle of the night on December 10 after using ...

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 ...