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 ...

The Alberta government is invoking the notwithstanding clause for the second time in three weeks and the federal justice minister says he’s concerned about provincial governments reaching for the tool ...

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he's concerned by the frequency of use of invoking notwithstanding clause to deal with complex social issues. His remarks come after the Alberta government invoked ...

3:53 Alberta Premier Smith says provinces ‘have the right’ to send labour unions back to work Alberta’s teachers were heading to court Thursday to try to get a judge to take immediate action on 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...