The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms comes with an escape hatch: under Section 33, elected legislatures can, by a simple majority vote, exempt the laws they pass from the application of some of ...

A lot of new documentation was published recently around Fabric capacities, including documentation on how to size and govern capacities and how to troubleshoot problems with capacities. The latter ...

Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Tim Kaine (Va.) have introduced a new resolution under the War Powers Act that would stop U.S. military strikes against boats from Venezuela that President ...

When the media reported on Wednesday that the Carney government will argue at the Supreme Court of Canada that repeated uses of the notwithstanding clause may be unconstitutional, I thought there must ...

OTTAWA - The federal government's request to Canada's top court for limits on the notwithstanding clause isn't only about Quebec's secularism law, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Thursday. As we ...

OTTAWA — The federal government's request to Canada's top court for limits on the notwithstanding clause isn't only about Quebec's secularism law, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Thursday. In a ...

Minister of Justice and Attorney General Sean Fraser speaks to the media at the Liberal caucus meeting in Edmonton on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken OTTAWA — The federal ...

Members of François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec government weren't mincing their words Thursday when reacting to Ottawa's intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada's case on Quebec's ...

2:04 Feds look to Supreme Court to limit use of notwithstanding clause In a media statement, Fraser said he hopes the Supreme Court’s eventual decision “will shape how both federal and provincial ...