As Ottawa County’s litigation lawyer for over 40 years and corporation counsel in the 1980s and from 2017 to 2023, I have strong feelings against Ottawa County becoming a charter county. First, this ...
City councillors marked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ 44th anniversary on Friday by hearing a wide range of arguments ...
OTTAWA — Judges must have the legal right to issue non-binding judgments in cases where governments override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a lawyer for the attorney general of Canada ...
MONTREAL — The federal government is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to set limits around how provincial governments can override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ottawa brought forward the ...
People congregate outside the Supreme Court of Canada as the court hears appeals regarding Quebec’s secularism law (Bill 21) in Ottawa on Monday, March 23, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick ...
OTTAWA - Judges must have the legal right to issue non-binding judgments in cases where governments override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a lawyer for the attorney general of Canada ...
OTTAWA - A lawyer for the federal government says judges have the legal right to issue non-binding judgments in cases where governments override rights protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.