Unpublished Newswire

Last summer, I found myself on the market for new friends. I had just moved back home to Toronto after spending four years away for school. Many of the people I was closest to had scattered around the world for new jobs or degrees. It’s not in my nature to admit this sort of thing, but I was lonely. Meta’s rapidly increasing mind-reading powers meant that, even before I really knew this about myself, Instagram had figured it out. I saw an ad for a platform that pitched itself as a way to make friends. I must have lingered on it for half a second too long. The ads multiplied. In them,...

A Jewish student is suing Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) for more than $1.3 million, alleging the school created a “poisoned environment” and disregarded several instances of antisemitism and harassment following the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. “I think I need to be a voice for all Jewish students who otherwise feel isolated and alone,” Liat Schwartz told National Post. “I have a very powerful voice, and I think I can make change, or hopefully make change, because (Jewish) students can’t go on living like this. It’s not fair. And the schools need to wake up.” On...