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BREAKING NEWS: Talks between Dalhousie and its faculty end with no further meetings scheduled

The conciliator ended talks between Dal’s board of governors and the DFA at 4 p.m Tuesday

September 9, 2025 /

In a Tuesday afternoon statement, Dalhousie University said that the conciliator ended talks between Dal’s board of governors and the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) at 4 p.m., with no further negotiations scheduled.

“We’re disappointed to hear that talks ended with no news on a deal,” says Dalhousie Student Union President Maren Mealey. “It’s incredibly frustrating because we were hoping to get students back to the classes they’re paying for as soon as possible.” 

Representatives of the board and DFA met on Monday for conciliation talks, which continued on Tuesday at the conciliator’s request. 

The university locked out almost 1,000 DFA members on Aug. 20, before the association finished voting on the board’s final offer. The DFA went on strike in retaliation on Aug. 22. 

Dalhousie’s fall term was set to begin on Sept. 2, but most classes are suspended for the duration of the lockout. 

“We urge parties to come back together and engage in talks to make a deal that prioritizes faculty, students and our financial investment in our education,” Mealey says.

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Jenna Olsen

Jenna is a fourth-year journalism student at King’s, with a minor in international development at Dalhousie. She has been writing for the Gazette since the first edition of her first year, and held the position of news editor in her second and third years. Jenna is proud to serve as the Gazette’s editor-in-chief alongside a team of dedicated and talented young journalists. Jenna is a reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau, a non-profit investigative unit based out of the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Postmedia. Her work has appeared in several publications including the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette, the Calgary Herald, and the Vancouver Sun. She is also an award-winning photojournalist and can often be found shoving her camera in the faces of both people she’s reporting on, and her annoyed friends.

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