Tag: volume-37-issue-12
Suicide by Facebook
Simone Back, a depressed woman of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, committed suicide on Christmas as her 1,000+ Facebook friends mocked a note she left...
Woman fakes pregnancy and abducts baby
Michelle Marie Gopaul, a 24-year-old Manhattan model and actress, is being charged with kidnapping a three-month-old baby.
Gopaul travelled to Toronto on November 12 on...
UTM grad John Roberts joins Fox
Born and raised in Mississauga, John Roberts, a member of the Canadian Broadcasting Hall of Fame, is leaving CNN’s American Morning to join Fox...
Peter Munk donates $35 million to U of T
In 2010, Canada’s own philanthropist Peter Munk, who created the mining giant Barrick Gold Corp., gave the University of Toronto the largest single gift...
Master’s thesis questioned on academic standards
Last month, the Canadian Jewish Congress criticized a U of T master’s thesis about Jewish “white privilege” and victim identity as being a “cry...
Textbook revamps U of T curriculum
A complaint lodged in early 2010 by an unidentified student and two doctors in the faculty of medicine about a textbook has prompted U...
UTMSU to drop parking fees
Last Thursday, around 25 students gathered in the Presentation Room of the Student Centre to join the executives of the UTM Student Union. The...
Maclean’s suggests U of T community is “too Asian”
Toronto city councillor Mike Layton’s first motion at city council was to ask Maclean’s magazine to “apologize unreservedly” for its “negative stereotyping of the...