The notwithstanding clause gives provinces or Parliament the ability to override certain portions of the Charter of Rights ...

Explore the most-favored-nation (MFN) clause, a cornerstone of global trade that ensures equal treatment of trading partners, with exceptions outlined by WTO norms.

Alberta has invoked the notwithstanding clause to end a teachers' strike. Here's what you need to know about the history of this mechanism to override Charter rights and freedoms, and how it works.

Some people think of the notwithstanding clause ... as the atomic weaponry of Canadian constitutional law and politics,' says ...

The Alberta government has tabled legislation ordering thousands of striking teachers back to work, invoking the ...

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is arguably the most comprehensive – and complex – data privacy regulation in the world. As companies prepare for the GDPR to go into ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if elected he’d use the notwithstanding clause to overturn Friday’s ruling from the Supreme Court striking down mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing ...

Last week, the Supreme Court decided the historic Wayfair case, which will have cascading consequences for the online retail and e-commerce industries. Wayfair upends the Quill decision, which was ...