TMU Task Force Will Look to Balance Rights to Protest, Campus Safety in Talks Beginning Next Month, Chair Says

TMU task force will look to balance rights to protest, campus safety in talks beginning next month, chair says

Balancing the right to protest with creating a safe campus will be part of the focus of talks beginning next month at Toronto Metropolitan University after an external review found “symptoms of a deteriorating campus climate,” the chair of a new task force says.

How TMU didn’t stop Jewish students and staff from being harassed as antisemitism flourished on campus: external report

A damning external report finds TMU let Jewish students and staff face harassment unchecked as antisemitism spread across campus. Here's what investigators u...

TMU Picks Damage Control Over Fixing the Damage: Behind Its Shameful Response to the Devastating Benotto Report on Campus Antisemitism

Last fall, two incidents at Toronto Metropolitan University attracted national attention: the September 2025 disruption by the group Students for Justice in Palestine at TMU of a Democracy Forum event featuring federal AI minister Evan Solomon that ended in an arrest, and the November 2025 storming of an off-campus event hosted by Students Supporting Israel that left the speaker hospitalized. TMU responded to mounting concern by retaining retired Ontario Court of Appeal justice Mary Lou Benotto to conduct a review of the incidents, assess the university’s policies and their application, and make recommendations for reforms. Her report, which the University released in redacted form last week, should spark two shockwaves. The first comes from the findings, which describe a campus with recurring antisemitism and the harassment of Jewish students and faculty with ineffective and inconsistent institutional response. The second comes from the university’s response to the report itself. TMU, despite having commissioned the review, now appears determined to delay and ultimately reject its recommendations. Indeed, rather than address the damage that leaves Jewish students and faculty feeling unsafe and subjected to routine harassment and discrimination, the university has opted for damage control that shamefully fails to respond to its antisemitism crisis.

Toronto Metropolitan University - TMU receives Justice Benotto report, appoints Bob Rae to chair Implementation Task Force

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has received the final report from retired Ontario Justice Mary Lou Benotto, who was appointed in November 2025 to conduct an external review of two incidents las. . .