The federal government clashed with Ontario and Alberta at the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday as they argued over ...

Quebec’s ban on religious symbols — and a measure that suspends constitutional rights — are being tested in a case with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre unveiled another announcement in his Justice agenda Monday, promising to use the ...

Legal arguments at the Supreme Court challenge into Quebec’s secularism law Wednesday focused on how provinces use the ...

The notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms seems to have a temporary character. Sun political ...

The Big Story discusses the historical context of the notwithstanding clause and what legal challenges come with Bill 21.

If you think the Supreme Court will be reluctant to rewrite the Constitution, as Ottawa wants it to by handcuffing Section 33, then you haven’t been paying attention, Bruce Pardy tells Brian Lilley.

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 ...

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 ...

The deal was drawn up in a kitchen at the old conference centre down the road from Parliament Hill. It was there in November, 1981, during a late-afternoon break at a federal-provincial meeting to ...

It’s too bad federal government lawyers were at the Supreme Court this week arguing against Quebec’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause in conjunction with that province’s controversial ...