Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Commentary Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau has been described by some as a brilliant philosopher king. With decades now having passed since his tenure, it’s worth examining whether the impact ...

Should Courts Cede Free Speech Battles to Administrative Tribunals?

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a challenge of legislation that allows account information held by ...

British Columbia Premier David Eby says the federal government needs to reform Canada's bail system now instead of simply ...

Police in Winnipeg have charged a second person in the surveillance of a Manitoba judge. Police say Randal ...

Commentary Ontario Premier Doug Ford passed Bill 28, or the Keeping Students in Class Act, on Nov. 3 ...

Commentary Ontario is a peculiar place. There have been two full years of school closures—of dubious necessity—and now ...

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from unions that consider the Manitoba government's public-sector ...

Many Canadians say they are unhappy with the police response to the Freedom Convoy in February, according to ...

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling that someone too impaired by drugs to be capable of self-control isn’t ...

Commentary It is now 40 years since the glorious Charter of Rights and Freedoms sprang full-fledged from the ...

The use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement without the proper legal safeguards in place threatens privacy, ...

A legal organization is suing the B.C. government in an effort to end its COVID-19 vaccine mandates for ...

Commentary A lot has been asked of Canadians over the past two years, and the vast majority have ...

Brian Peckford, former premier of Newfoundland and the last surviving architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and ...

For Bruce Pardy, law professor and executive director of Rights Probe, it's important to ensure that people who ...

The last living premier who took part in the 1982 Constitution negotiations says Canadian governments have “violated” the ...

The vaccine mandates pushed by the federal and provincial governments have divided Canadians, and the way the unvaccinated ...

The mandate that requires federal employees from core public services to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has constitutional ...

A group of over 3,500 Alberta health-care professionals including around 70 physicians is calling on the province to ...

News Analysis The restrictions on worship and assembly during the pandemic, followed more recently by the potential denial ...

Commentary Like other Canadian provinces, Ontario has turned into a police state where citizens are denied their basic ...

OTTAWA—The Federal Court of Appeal has found that a pact between Ottawa and Washington to turn back asylum-seekers ...

OTTAWA—The Canadian government is set to tell a Federal Court of Appeal hearing today a refugee pact between ...

Commentary With restrictions on gatherings and other lockdown measures persisting for nearly a year across much of the ...

OTTAWA—Justice Minister David Lametti isn't ruling out the possibility of asking the Supreme Court to advise on the ...