THE WELDON TIMES

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

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.