(Dave Buston/The Canadian Press) The partisan environment in which these Bill of Rights revisions land is in striking contrast to how the province's fundamental rights document was first ...
So it bears repeating that that Alberta Bill of Rights Amendment Act, 2024, is a fundamentally unserious document. Whereas the 1972 Alberta Bill of Rights passed in Premier Peter Lougheed’s first term ...
Though largely superseded by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was adopted in 1982, the original Alberta Bill of Rights has been used by courts, on occasion, to invalidate ...