Citizens should oppose pre-emptive use of the Notwithstanding Clause. Those drafting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms cast a broad net for invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause (Sec. 33).  The clause allows any Canadian legislature (including Parliament) to declare that an Act, or clause within an Act, of the legislature can operate ‘notwithstanding’ the […]

Influencers are mostly self-created, by millennials, teens or younger.  Their small videos – usually very clever and/or funny, sometimes moving – are uploaded to and shared on one or more social media platforms; these generate ‘views’, ‘likes’ and possibly ‘subscribers’, each generating more potential revenue for the influencers.  The influencer then markets her/his/their popularity to […]