THE WELDON TIMES

Pop culture and family law might seem worlds apart, but both revolve around relationships, power dynamics, and the fine print that everyone ignores until it’s a little too late. The only real difference is that in 99.9% of family law, the heartbreaks don’t come with a new album and Grammy nomination. You were Romeo, you were throwin' pebbles Let’s take a look at Taylor Swift. She is arguably the queen of emotional disclosure. Her music is a casebook in love, loss, and lessons

A quarter of the way through the 21st century, we stand surrounded by slop. We are near-universally severed from the tangible creation of things. Instead, our productivity is abstracted to emails, spreadsheets, and Word documents. Most manufacturing of the things around us has been offshored, and, wherever it occurs, it is devoid of craft. This is our Faustian bargain for greater efficiency.

Like many others, I am stuck in a crippling doomscroll habit. After a long day, I find myself mindlessly swiping to see the next reel. Sometimes it’s an AFV-style fail compilation, other times it’s some glamorous travel vlog. But something has been changing up many of our feeds lately. Interrupting our disconnected scrolling are the faces of ordinary civilians experiencing unimaginable suffering through armed conflict. Accounts featuring everyday life in war-torn regions have

Over the past year, I’ve struggled with migraines, and by the summer, I had to seek the advice of a medical professional. I walked into my family doctor’s office, expecting to discuss potential medications or eyesight testing, but my doctor said the last thing I expected: I needed to come off my combined birth control pill – almost immediately – as migraines increase the risk of stroke to an unacceptable level.

Injured on the job? Exposed to unsafe working conditions aboard a corporate freighter? Employer interrupt your hypersleep to send you to investigate an unidentified signal on an alien planet? At Asimov & Lucas LLP, we believe no employee, synthetic or otherwise, should be treated as expendable. From wormhole misrepresentation to xenomorph exposure, our team of interstellar litigators will fight for you.

In law school, coffee is more than a drink. It shapes our daily routine, particularly during exam seasons. The long morning lines and tables buzzing with laptops and casebooks at nearby cafés have become a familiar sight. Based on a small survey of 1L Schulich students, 73% of respondents drink coffee, and the majority (85%) consume no more than two cups per day. Affecting nearly three in four of our peers, coffee drinking is a common habit.

Come with me to the Halifax Brewery Market Saturday morning. Farmers, bakers, florists, and crafters, painters, makers, chefs, and baristas – rain or shine, year after year – travel with their vans packed to the brim before dawn from The Valley and South Shore and set up on Lower Water Street to prepare displays that charm eyes and satiate curious tastes.

Few students know the Weldon Law Building’s namesake, but his legacy continues to echo through our halls through the Weldon Tradition of unselfish public service and, of course, The Weldon Times. The latter was founded in 1975 – or so we thought. Until last year, the thick fog of time enshrouded The Weldon Times’ beginning. A light pierced through, and that light was Doug Shatford. He reached out, we were dazzled, and he (quite humbly) allowed me to interview him on his ex

This piece was submitted anonymously as a handwritten letter, though the law school soon came to know the author colloquially as the "Saint." After deliberation, Doug Shatford moved forward with its first publication in volume 1, number 5 of The Weldon Times on April 4, 1973. Shatford decided to print the unedited, untranscribed version of the letter, but for accessibility purposes, this publication will feature a version transcribed to the best of my ability.

You have really done it this time. After trash-talking beekeeping on social media again, you received a stern e-mail from Dean Harding summoning you to her office. Resigned to your fate, you close your eyes, take a deep breath, and softly open her door. If you don't complete this chess puzzle you could end up killed – or worse, expelled.

This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the Queen’s International Law Program in the public international law stream. In this article, I will share some highlights and personal reflections on the program, from practical advice on entering the field of international law to insights into what it means to study it at a time when the system appears to be collapsing. 

Intrepid connoisseur, Nicole McLuhan, details her summer journey across the Halifax hot dog landscape. Ten dogs, all alike in company, In fair Halagonia, where we lay our scene, From ancient goal break to new glizzy-dom, Where hot dog stuff makes civil hands unclean.

Law school is truly a journey, and we’re glad to be closing ours out with one last Tastefully Timed article. We hope you celebrate the highs and soften the lows with good food during your time at Weldon. Here’s our final recommendations for the moments and emotions you’ll experience over the next three (or more) years.

For this Retrograde edition of The Weldon Times, Weird Weldon is jumping back in time to a pre-Charter criminal case involving a hypnotic police interrogation. Although once a genuine concern, Canadians no longer have to worry about resisting against subliminal manipulation from the police (see R v Trochym, 2007 SCC 6).

Adam offers poetry about the topic law students know and love, stare decisis.

As we step into the new academic year, I am thrilled to welcome both new and returning students to our law school community. To the incoming class of 2028, huge congratulations and welcome! You are about to begin an incredibly exciting and transformative journey. Law school will challenge you in ways you may not yet expect.

Welcome to a new year at Weldon and another year of Domus! Domus Legis has been part of Dal Law since 1965, and I’m so excited for what the Domus executives have in the works for our 51st year. You can expect the classic events we all know and love, but we’re also adding new themes and venues to make the 2025/2026 year unforgettable.

Who better to pen a few words on a theme about the past than a dean whose history with this law school dates back to the 1980s? I’m always shocked to learn that fashions from the 80s and 90s are retro. Personally, I can’t imagine returning to padded shoulders and puffy hair. Aside from fashion – a subject on which no one would trust me – but in line with the theme of looking back, readers might be interested to learn more.

In this edition of Tastefully Timed, Emily and Gerald are excited to highlight some of their favorite Asian-owned food spots around the HRM.

Alexi Grewal, President of the Dalhousie Family Law Society, guides students through the process of creating a new student society.