The Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases involving provinces using a clause to pass laws that violate the Charter ...

In the Bouchard 1 case rendered in July 2023, many years after the Supreme Court of Canada rendered the Jarvis decision, 2 the Court of Québec concluded that the fundamental rights of medical ...

In 2000, the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council proclaimed the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. This document set out the fundamental rights and freedoms recognised by the ...

Alberta premier Danielle Smith announced on Saturday during her radio call-in show “Your Province. Your Premier” that her government is prepared to invoke the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ ...

The Canadian government's use of emergency powers against the Freedom Convoy protest of restrictive COVID-19 policies was unreasonable and led to the infringement of individual rights, a federal judge ...

Saskatchewan’s premier has preemptively invoked the province’s power to ignore the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for a gender identity bill. By Ian Austen In June, the Canada Letter looked at the ...

The Alberta government is invoking Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — commonly referred to as the notwithstanding clause — in its legislation forcing striking teachers back to ...

The New Brunswick government is taking a pass on one of the biggest legal cases on Charter rights in Canada in years. The province quietly withdrew in August from a Supreme Court of Canada case that ...

Sunil Gurmukh received funding from the Law Foundation of Ontario via Western University's Faculty of Law for the Hidden Racial Profiling Project, which he is leading. His views do not represent the ...

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a mistake. It should have never become part of the Constitution. The most dire predictions of what it would mean for Canada, the wholesale transfer of ...

Anne Levesque is co-chair of the Disability Justice Litigation Initiative of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. University of Ottawa provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ...