A lawsuit from the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) aims to prove that prohibiting people from sheltering in public ...

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A judge has dismissed comments a Manitoba woman made during her arrest about consuming alcohol before hitting her boyfriend with a school bus because her Charter rights were breached.

The Supreme Court of Canada has announced that it will hear a challenge to Québec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21. The law, passed in 2019 “to affirm the laicity of the State,” restricts certain ...

Poilievre said judges 'are going to be obliged' to uphold the law he's promising, given its intent of preventing future ...

Viola Desmond was a successful black businesswoman who was jailed, convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946. Her court case was an inspiration ...

52(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982. The majority ruled that these provisions violated the right against cruel and unusual punishment under s. 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and ...

This year marks the Supreme Court of Canada's 150th anniversary. Since 1875, this court has played a significant role in defining the country's legal landscape and Canadian society. Its decisions have ...

Fentanyl trafficking, under existing law, can already be punished with life in prison, and sentences are often more than 10 ...

In 1982 when Pierre Trudeau decided to patriate the British North American Act and develop Canada’s own Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms ... under the bus. Canadian oil exports ...