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Alberta teachers are taking Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP government to court for passing a law to end their strike and for using the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to do it. Jason Schilling, head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, said on Thursday the union has filed an application asking for a judge to immediately pause the law until a full constitutional challenge is heard.The case over Bill 2, the Back to School Act, is scheduled to be heard Nov. 20 in Edmonton Court of King’s Bench.“In this action, teachers will ask the court to declare that the government’s use of the notwithstanding clause was improper and invalid,” Schilling told reporters.He said the law violates teachers’ rights to freedom of association and expression, and, if left unchallenged, sets a dangerous precedent th...

Trump's lawyer faced pointed questions from the conservative-led court on Wednesday about the president's use of a national security statute to pursue his tariff agenda. Source link

By Anja Karadeglija The Canadian Press Posted November 5, 2025 7:05 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal government says it will restore a privacy provision to the Online Streaming Act, more than two years after it was accidentally deleted. The federal budget released this week says the government will make a legislative amendment to “restore the right to privacy of individuals to the interpretation provisions and remove a duplicative provision relating to official languages.”In 2023, the Online Streaming Act updated Canada’s Broadcasting Act to capture online streamers like Netflix....

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said he would not comment directly on measures in the federal budget during a scheduled appearance before the House of Commons finance committee on Wednesday. But he told members of Parliament he believes the budget got the diagnosis right on what ails the Canadian economy: flagging productivity and low investment levels.Macklem said that to boost growth and make up for the hit from U.S. tariffs, Canada needs to create conditions that encourage private investment.That’s a job best suited to targeted fiscal policy, he said, rather than the sweeping effects of monetary policy and changes in the Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate.“I think what’s going to be important in moving forward is the quality of those investments, the quality of that spending,...