Unpublished Newswire

A government that uses the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to override the rights of Canadians in legislation is not automatically shielded from judicial review, according to a major ruling on Monday from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.At issue is the Saskatchewan government’s pronoun law, enacted in 2023. It requires parental consent at school when children younger than 16 want to change their pronouns or names. The province used Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the notwithstanding clause, to protect it from court challenges.

Canadians are overwhelmingly in favour of mandatory national service for young adults but are less united about what form that service should take, a new survey has found.  The survey, produced by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute, asked a group of Canadians if they supported the idea of mandatory national service – that is, one year of time donated for those younger than 30 years of age – across a number of fields. Many nations including Germany, France and Norway have instituted this practice in recent years. Respondents were overwhelmingly in favour of Canada adopting the practice...