THE WELDON TIMES

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.

For every particle, there exists a corresponding, mirrored antiparticle with the opposite quality and charge. Similarly, justice and injustice are binary moral notions: being “morally correct” implies a lack of moral culpability.

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).

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

There are ongoing attacks on trans rights. I want to focus on something smaller, yet impactful: the quiet progress in the legal world.