The federal government has waded into the legal battle over Quebec’s Bill 21 secularism law, telling the Supreme Court that it must assess the constitutionality of the province’s use of the ...

Premier Danielle Smith spoke about a recently-leaked memo that indicated the provincial government is preparing to use the notwithstanding clause to amend three laws pertaining to transgender youth on ...

Washington, DC, Sept. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief today in West Virginia v. B.P.J. at the U.S. Supreme Court. NCLA asked the Justices to ...

If accepted by the Supreme Court of Canada, the proposal could create the first ever substantive limit to the use of the increasingly popular notwithstanding clause You can save this article by ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo ...

MONTREAL — The Alberta government says the notwithstanding clause is an essential part of the Canadian constitution and the country's top court should not undermine it. The province’s attorney general ...

Ottawa’s bid to curb the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause is “way overreach,” warns Premier Doug Ford. Ford, the first Ontario premier to ever employ the Constitution’s nuclear option to ...

1:48 ‘We’re on the side of kids’: Alberta premier ready for legal fight on transgender health care bill Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding ...

Dozens of Albertans gathered Sunday at Calgary's City Hall hoping to send a message to their premier. Students, teachers, and members of the LGBTQ2+ community are asking the province to reconsider ...

OTTAWA — There should be limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause that is being increasingly invoked by provinces to curtail people’s Charter rights, the federal government argued in the ...