divestment

As a student leader at the University of Waterloo, I have seen first-hand the rising fear and anxiety my peers experience regarding the present realities and the future of our communities and the planet. 

Post-secondary institutions such as U of T should be leading the response to the global environmental threat by offering clear, transparent and detailed proposals backed by genuine accountability.

Inspired by high school climate strikes and building on the success of the university divestment movement, a new era of student organizers is turning its attention to Canada’s banks.

Students are demanding the University of Toronto's federated schools also commit to moving their investments out of fossil fuels. Less than an hour’s drive north, students at York University want their school to follow suit.

By continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion, RBC is complicit in robbing us of a livable future, write Jordan Thaker, Dani Michie and Amy Mann.

The boards of Canada’s largest pension funds are already inundated with fossil fuel connections and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is about to add a former executive with ongoing ties to the industry to the mix.

Ten years after launching a global fossil fuel divestment campaign, legendary climate activist Bill McKibben reflects.

The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation holds a total of $199.6 billion in managed assets and oversees retirement savings for the province's teachers, nurses, municipal workers and other government workers, according to its site.

As the world navigates an energy transition, Canada’s bankers find themselves neck-deep in oil money with a choice to make: Turn their backs on fossil fuels or keep financing the very activity threatening all life on Earth.

A string of major Canadian universities committed in 2020 to consider climate change when managing their assets. The C.D. Howe Institute took a look at how they’ve done since.

The shareholders who show up in person to such events got an early morning dose of dancefloor bass from Greenpeace climate protesters outside Scotiabank’s annual general meeting on Tuesday.

"It is our future. It is not enough for you to have a token youth in your decision-making circle. Foreground our voices and show you are listening," says SFU grad WeiChun Kua.

Students with a youth divestment group at McGill University are staging an unusual protest. They are using an "occupation" to draw extra attention to the school's pension fund investments in fossil fuels.

The Ontario university has made efforts to partially divest, but campus activists say McMaster remains opaque on how it plans to fully part ways with its fossil fuel investments.

Ryerson has its reasons for refusing to divest from fossil fuels, but at least some students believe the university is wrong.