‘We accidentally started something special’: Manitoba restaurant gains global attention with viral social media challenge

Visitors from around the world are coming all the way to a little family-run restaurant in rural Manitoba, all thanks to a social media challenge gone viral.

Teenage insecurities are nothing new, but social media has made it easier for commercial, political and ideological actors to identify what young people worry about, keep feeding those anxieties and offer products, communities or beliefs as answers.

Smartphones and social media aren’t just destroying attention. They’re also having a corrosive effect on our politics  Toronto Star

Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate bid faces scrutiny over thousands of euthanized animals at Detroit Animal Control during his tenure as the city's health director.