As the Supreme Court of Canada considers limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause, the Alberta government is considering invoking the clause to preserve three pieces of legislation affecting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Justice Minister Matt Wiebe speaks during question period at the Manitoba Legislature on Wednesday, after he reintroduced ...

Canadian politicians are beginning to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause more than ever expected, raising questions about when it’s legitimate to override rights guaranteed by the Charter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has used the Canadian Constitution’s notwithstanding clause for blatantly political purposes. The province’s Progressive Conservative government has passed a bill limiting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Premier Danielle Smith and other government ministers talk about the passing of Bill 2, which invoked the notwithstanding clause ...

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 Canadian Party of Quebec warns eroding democratic trust threatens rule of law.

Teachers' organizations across Canada say provincial governments are using the notwithstanding clause to 'terminate ...

Manitoba's NDP government is reviving a bill it says will serve as a safeguard against future governments invoking the Charter's notwithstanding clause to override the rights of protected groups, ...

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 ...