Despite a finding by the Québec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women, the law has survived. Now, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear challenges to it.

aims to prove that prohibiting people from sheltering in public spaces in Vancouver during the daytime violates sections of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "Shelter is a fundamental human ...

Mostly, the bar on what it takes be a famous landmark case can be because: they put forward new interpretations of existing laws and the fundamental rights under the Constitution and the Canadian ...

In enacting Bill 21, the Quebec government invoked 33 of the Canadian ... criticism of section 33, that it makes the Charter an instrument[] that give[s] with one hand and take[s] away with the other, ...

For Eberts it was a monumental event in for Canadian women. "The ad hoc committee was possibly one ... added. Section 28 read, "Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms ...

Despite learning from the 1985 Kanishka bombing, the Canadian government is criticized for allowing 'violent extremists and secessionists' to operate under the guise of charter freedoms, straining ...

To sidestep freedom of religion, Premier François Legault pre-emptively invoked Section ... rights and gender equality rights, two Charter sections the notwithstanding clause does not override ...

United States Human Rights Violations against the Numu/Nuwu and Newe in the Rush for Lithium,” found that the US Bureau of ...

Pembroke – A local man who was found guilty of five charges related to the sexual abuse of a family member under the age of 16 years was sentenced to 42 months (three and one-half years ...

A Quebec court convicted one respondent in this case for two counts relating ... the right against cruel and unusual punishment under s. 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and lacked ...