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

Canada as we know it is a lie. We have been fed a reality that placed Canada at the epicenter of equality and freedom, distinct from the horrid atrocities of our neighbours. We allowed ourselves to become an adjudicator of other nations' human rights violations without addressing our own extensive list of shortcomings. This article is part of the Black Voices collection, an ongoing collaboration with Dalhousie Black Law Students’ Association.

Full version will be released soon. On August 18, 2025, the Dalhousie Board of Governors (BoG) notified the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) that they were going to be locked out before faculty, librarians, instructors, and counsellors voted on the BoG’s latest offer.¹ This was the first time a U15 university locked out its faculty,² but it is part of a concerning trend of Canadian university lockouts that began in 2007.³ While universities are workplaces, they are also sp

Last year, my friends informed me that my parents’ legal battle against the Canadian government appeared in their Intellectual Property Law I curriculum. This was excellent news. It qualified mom and dad as Where Are They Now interview subjects. Not only is their case interesting, but also they were incredibly easy to track down.

Deepfakes challenge our sense of reality by appearing startlingly real, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fabrication. A deepfake is a digitally manipulated video, audio or image that appears real, but is actually generated or altered by artificial intelligence (AI). Deepfakes pose significant legal and ethical challenges within the realm of cybersecurity. These challenges arise from the unethical use of deepfake technology to generate content involving i

Earlier this year, Nova Scotia’s provincial government proposed to re-open uranium mining in the province, provoking visceral and vocal pushback. This is one of many contentious projects they have proposed, aimed at boosting economic growth.

At the heart of R v Biddle, a 1995 Supreme Court of Canada case, is the issue of impartiality in the process of jury selection.¹ In 1988, Eric Ralph Biddle was convicted of two separate attacks on women. He appealed the decision, arguing that the jury in his initial trial had a reasonable apprehension of bias which was insidiously created by the Crown.

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).

Climate change has been a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads for over 40 years now. The changes predicted in the late 1970s are materializing at home and in remote areas of the world. One of the most notably impacted regions is the Arctic. The melting of glaciers, disappearance of polar caps, and recession of perma-ice have wreaked havoc on the lives of animals and plants inhabiting the North. Unfortunately, new challenges have arisen.

Ivey covers reconciliatory justice for the Pekukamiulnuatsh Takuhikan while Thomson covers the cooperative efforts of many Canadian province

Studying international law as a law student feels like playing a game of Uno where everyone insists on their own rules. Let's give it teeth.

After acting as moot counsel for the Law Society in January, it seemed only fair to hear the other side of the story. Here's that interview.

A light-hearted, brief brief about current cases that folks may wish to know about. These cases span legal fields from Sept to Nov 2024.

In 1996, David Malmo-Levine's work with the Harm Reduction Club, a Vancouver non-profit marijuana educator and provider, led to a charge.

Intimate partner violence (“IPV”) is an epidemic. When society thinks about IPV, they often focus on physical abuse. The law could change...