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

Quebec's law to regulate religious symbols goes to the Supreme Court in a constitutional test case.

The landmark hearing on Bill 21 could bring the notwithstanding clause – and Canada – into uncharted territory ...

How do you retool “What the Constitution Means to Me” for those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution? Consult Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. By Aisling Murphy Reporting from Toronto. “What ...

The Catholic bishops were among more than 50 intervenors presenting arguments at a landmark Supreme Court of Canada hearing ...

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 ...

More than two dozen outside groups put forth a panoply of arguments about the secularism law and the Charter’s ...

Allotted five minutes each to make their case to a Supreme Court of Canada panel on Thursday, many of the intervenors in a ...

It’s lionized by politicians but, in the real world, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms has proved less a symbol of ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that interprovincial mobility is a constitutional right under Section 6 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court held that Section 6 of the ...