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.

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

Amber flashes rhythmically pulse as feet shuffle across a freshly painted crosswalk. Frigid air reaches through autumn jackets with piercing cold. Exhaust pours out into the street, bathed in red as brake mechanisms hold back the orderly lines of 3,500 lb metal machines. Looking to the stars, surely something – someone – in the universe is looking back.

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

I’m tired. Physically, emotionally, socially – tired. Tired is an understatement; I’m certifiably exhausted. At Schulich, I’ve developed an interesting quirk when it comes to stress: I don’t sleep. Other people can turn off their minds, and savour those coveted six to eight hours of unadulterated relaxation, while I lie in my bed, watching the clock as the seconds tick to minutes and minutes to hours.

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.

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.

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.

Among law students, or at least the people at Schulich that I study with, booking a basement library room is never just about studying. It always starts that way: textbooks out, laptops plugged into the nearest outlet, and someone suggesting that we "Lock in for the next four hours." Within five minutes, someone’s asking what the new Crumbl cookie lineup is this week.

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.

Climate change, and humanity’s lack of preparation for it, is akin to the explosive release of energy when matter and antimatter meet. Though vital to the fabric of our universe, antimatter is volatile. When volatile forces meet inadequate systems, the result is disaster. Flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, snowfalls, and wildfires are growing in intensity and frequency. When governments fail to adequately plan for these events, communities are left to fill in the gaps.

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.

I remember the first time I spoke to a lawyer in my chosen area of practice; she referred to law school as being “the worst – everyone is competing with everyone else from Day 1." I walked into Weldon cautiously guarded, wondering if the stories I’d heard about textbooks being hidden in the stacks to prevent other students from accessing them and erroneous CANs being published intentionally were true.

The rise of the second-hand fashion market has introduced a number of novel legal questions, especially in the realm of intellectual property (IP). For law students interested in fashion law or IP litigation, the intersection of resale, consignment, and trademark protection offers a fascinating ground for legal analysis and potential career specialization.

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.

Dal, why are you locking out the DFA; refusing to negotiate with your unions; ignoring student needs and interests; claiming to have a deficit despite your massive ‘surpluses’? It would be funny to watch you stumble this hard if my future weren’t dependent on your success. So, let’s talk, for real, about what it means to be the first research-intensive university in Canada to lock out full-time faculty.