Maybe the Charter of Rights and Freedom’s notwithstanding clause went unused so long that constitution “experts” told themselves a lot of fables about it, include one I heard Wednesday. On Monday, the ...

When a government invokes the notwithstanding clause, like Alberta’s just did on three transgender policy bills, it doesn’t need to specify which rights within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms its ...

The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills from legal challenges that affects transgender youth and adults. Premier ...

CALGARY — Alberta is set to again invoke the notwithstanding clause, this time to shield a raft of limits on transgender youth — including a ban on surgery under 18 and Canada’s only ban of puberty ...

Alberta teachers say they are taking Premier Danielle Smith’s government to court for overriding their Charter rights to end their strike while some members of her caucus say public outrage toward ...

If ever there was a court ruling calling for the use of the notwithstanding clause, it’s the debacle issued by the court last Friday. And yet the Carney Liberals are saying they won’t overturn that ...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Sean Fraser has rejected calls to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said one-year mandatory minimum jail ...

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court of Canada’s narrow decision last week to strike down the one-year minimum sentence for possession of child pornography, Alberta’s premier was among the voices ...

Efforts to recall several United Conservative Party MLAs are gaining traction following the government’s decision last month to invoke the notwithstanding clause and force striking teachers back to ...

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on the federal government to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause to overturn a new Supreme Court ruling on child pornography. The top court ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. My tween-age daughters make me proud in countless ways, but I am still adjusting to the fact that they are not bookworms. I’m pretty sure that two generations ...