The Alberta government has invoked the notwithstanding clause to protect three new laws from any constitutional challenges. Debate in the legislature went through the night as the UCP bill passed ...

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Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ministers have set out plans to curb the use of non-compete clauses in UK employment contracts, in a move that ...

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 ...

The Alberta government has an interesting sense of irony. On Tuesday, just two days before Transgender Day of Remembrance, it overrode the constitutional rights of transgender youth in relation to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alberta government has tabled legislation to invoke the notwithstanding clause for three controversial laws that affect transgender people. Bill 9 — the Protecting Alberta’s Children Statutes ...

In Alberta, the government seems poised to use the notwithstanding clause to defend laws that govern the use of pronouns in schools, female sports and gender-affirming health care. If applied, it ...

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 ...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is looking at making some information on the sex offender registry public, in the wake of a controversial Supreme Court of Canada decision on child pornography ...

4:38 Conservatives slam Liberals for ruling out use of notwithstanding clause for child porn sentences Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will use the notwithstanding clause if necessary to make ...