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A youth-led movement ushering in the end of fossil fuel financing

https://linktr.ee/changecourseca

🔗Tell Carney and Banks to stop funding fossil fuel and Weapons!: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-to-carney-and-banks?
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RBC is one of the key partners for the prestigious U of T business school Rotman. They have greenwashed their image by sponsoring the Rotman Sustainable Finance Week.

🔗Student Petition to get RBC out of Rotman: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Today as part of our DOA, the #Banksoffcampus U of T student group from @climatejusticeuoft.bsky.social did a flyer drop at the Rotman School of Management building.

📣They chanted "When indigenous lands are under attack what do we do?" " Stand up! Fight back! " and "RBC off campus now!"
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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If you missed SFU350 and artist George Rammell today at Simon Fraser University to get grounded in the land, learn about extraction projects in BC, and take action against the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT)… luckily the Mapping the Tipping Point exhibit will still be up tmw! #RBCOffCampus
giant piece of art that is a map with smaller photos on: there's also an SFU 350 banner reading “climate justice now student power community solidarity”. The artist is sitting in front of the map and students are talking to each other and learning about the items on it. Text reads ”@sfu350 @changecourse_ca thank you thank you thank you to George for sharing your art acknowledge with us today!! If you missed us, go check out mapping in the tipping point while it's still up in the SUB today/tomorrow!”
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Topics and speakers include: Banks Off Campus and solidarity with Gitxan youth against PRGT, York Federation of Students #HandsOffOurEducation campaign, York U Grad Students Association BDS committee, Jane Finch Action Against Poverty, and the Community Engagement Centre at York U! #RBCOffCampus
Drawing of a cup reading solidarity economy, drawing of a post office Reading postal banking, stylized tree and water reading land back, pyramid reading cancel privatization, and a stop the zombie pipeline flyer Half out of frame A person standing writing on a whiteboard facing away from the camera, captioned “our struggles have shared roots” and Geotagged York university. Something written on the whiteboard include settler colonialism, economics/profits, liberal ideologies, stigma around poverty, centralizing power to corporations, austerity which concentrates wealth, complex bureaucracies, privatization of public spaces, distraction, noise, propaganda, years of conservative government, and other things that are cut off from you view
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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OPIRG York’s teach-in on what kind of university we want to create!

Our struggles have shared roots ✊
#RBCOffCampus
Classroom of people seated in small groups at tables, facing away from the camera to order a speaker wearing a face mask and standing behind a podium. Gathering of informational materials on top of a banner, including a change course flyer titled stop the zombie pipeline, a disorientation with OPIRG at York colouring book and brochures, change course stickers, and a hands off our education flyer from CFS Ontario. Room of people in face masks facing off camera, with a large colourful painting in the background featuring trees and ocean, as well as a bike and vines.
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Solidarity with CUPE 1281 workers at York University, with a teach-in about the kind of university we want to create ft. Banks Off Campus and PRGT!

Take action in solidarity here 👉 cupe.ca/yufa-fair-deal

#BanksOffCampus
Five people with raised fists, with signs reading “CUPE hey YUFA harassment is a no go CUPE1281 says no” and a similar sign with wording partially obscured
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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“We’re saying clearly: stop funding destruction and start securing a livable future before ours burns away.”
-Lola, RBC Off-Campus UBC-Okanagan #RBCOffCampus
Students banner painting at a folding table in front of 2 banners reading “RBC funds genocide” Stylized picture of an RBC lion on a banner in progress RBC off campus chalked onto the bricks in front of a UBCO building, chalk also reads free Palestine and there is a Palestine flag in the foreground
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Here’s our generational response:

STUDENTS ACROSS CANADA DENOUNCE FEDERAL BUDGET THAT BACKS FOSSIL FUELS, NOT THEIR FUTURES, AND RBC FOR CASHING IN ON A
BURNING PLANET 🔥#RBCOffCampus
STUDENTS ACROSS CANADA DENOUNCE FEDERAL BUDGET THAT BACKS FOSSIL FUELS, NOT THEIR FUTURES, AND RBC FOR CASHING IN ON A BURNING PLANET TORONTO, ONTARIO — In the wake of the federal budget, students at nine universities across Canada are demanding that the Carney government change course from funding climate chaos and war toward building a green, fair, and equitable future. They say both the government’s budget and the record of Canada’s big banks including RBC on fossil fuel financing are driving the same crisis, one that jeopardizes their futures, fuels the climate emergency, and violates Indigenous rights. Students are calling on Canada’s big five banks (RBC, BMO, TD, CIBC and Scotiabank) to stop financing fossil fuel expansion and respect Indigenous Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, particularly by rejecting new LNG projects such as the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT), which the Gitxsan and Gitanyow nations oppose. Recent federal and provincial legislation, including Bill C-5 and the creation of a Major Projects Office led by the former Trans Mountain board chair, will weaken environmental oversight, sideline Indigenous rights, in the guise of so-called “de-risking” destructive projects for banks as so-called ‘nation-building’ . This can pave the way for more climate-wrecking “carbon bomb” developments that threaten ecosystems and Canada’s emissions targets. Students are responding to the recently tabled 2025 federal budget, which pours billions into fossil fuels and weapons instead of protecting the people who will inherit this country. The government’s plan commits an additional C$9 billion for the military, boosting overall defence spending to roughly 2 % of GDP, while continuing to underwrite oil and gas expansion through subsidies and so-called “carbon management” incentives. The establishment of a Major Projects Office, tasked with fast-tracking large-scale industrial and energy developments, further signals that corporate and geopolitical interests … The protests were organized by Change Course (formerly Banking on a Better Future) supporting student campus chapters across the country including the University of British Columbia (both in Vancouver and Okanagan), Simon Fraser University, the University of Toronto, York University, University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, Lakehead University and Concordia University. For four years, student activists have led campus protests, prompting 14 student unions to sign a National Student Union Letter urging banks to stop financing fossil fuels. Several student unions have made public commitments to cutting ties with RBC by switching to bank with a credit union, banning sponsorships from the banks, and ending leasing contracts with RBC. Most recently, the Canadian Federation of Students Ontario adopted the Banks Off Campus campaign in partnership with Change Course, representing 350,000 students province-wide. “Once again our federal government has signaled to us its priorities: war, resource extraction, austerity, short-term corporate profits - meanwhile students and workers get the short end of the stick with high tuition fees, rising rents and grocery prices, and recession-levels of youth unemployment, ” says Cyrielle Ngeleka, Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students - Ontario. “The government, at all levels, has shown that they'll step on our rights to organize as fast as they'll bulldoze over Indigenous land and further the climate crisis. These attacks require all of us to unite and fight back!” “At Lakehead, we’re taking action because the federal government and RBC are driving Canada in the wrong direction by pouring billions into fossil fuels and calling it progress. The 2025 budget props up oil and gas, ramps up military spending, and sets the stage to fast-track destructive fossil fuel projects through Bill C-5 and the new Major Projects Office, ” adds Heather Wright of Climate Justice Lakehead. “RBC continues to bankroll projects like the Prince …
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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“At UBC Okanagan, we’ve already felt the consequences of a lack of climate action. The 2023 wildfires in the Okanagan forced an evacuation of our campus and devastated syilx lands – a direct result of the fossil fuel emissions banks like RBC keeps funding.”
–Lola, RBC Off-Campus UBC-O #RBCOffCampus
White banner reading “RBC funds climate chaos land theft surveillance genocide” and red banner reading “RBC funds genocide” hung on the wall of a UCO building. Text reads “no PRGT! No CGL! No genocide! prGTFO! Standing in solidarity with other student activist and indigenous land defenders @climatejusticeUBC @sfu350 @changecourse_ca” with three burning heart emojis
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"We're saying clearly: stop funding destruction and start securing a livable future before ours burns away." - Lola from RBC Off-Campus UBC-O
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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"The 2023 wildfires in the Okanagan forced an
evacuation of our campus and devastated syilx lands – a direct result of the fossil fuel emissions
banks like RBC keep funding." - Lola from RBC Off-Campus UBC-O.
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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“At UBC Okanagan, we’ve already felt the consequences of a lack of climate action,” - Lola from RBC Off-Campus UBC-O.
#banksoffcampus #rbc #climatechange
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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“We will not stand by while our university, banks like RBC, and the federal government continue support and financing climate destruction and violating Indigenous rights under the guise of leadership.” -Grace Jeffries of Climate Justice Climatique UOttawa. #RBCOffCampus
Flyer featuring a picture of uOttawa with a graphic of flames, with bold text reading “the green Academy: courtesy of the bank burning the planet RBC funds optics not action”. There is a QR code captioned learn more with the CJCUO logo. This fall, the university of Ottawa’s Telfer school of management proudly launched its new green Academy, a program promising to educate students on global environmental challenges, sustainable business, and responsible leadership. However, this announcement also came with the $2 million donation from the Royal Bank of Canada. A bank currently under federal investigation for alleged greenwashing, exposes the world's largest fossil fuel financier in 2022. A bank that funds pipelines violating indigenous sovereignty and threatening water and land. This is not a climate leadership this is a PR buyout this is greenwashing. After years of student climate advocacy, sits ins, and demands for, uOttawa continues to partner with RBC. Students have never opposed climate education. We oppose fossil fuel funded climate education. We can't build a just future with fossil fuel money
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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#RBCOffCampus at uOttawa! “We are rising together with Indigenous land defenders and front-line communities in so-called British Columbia who are resisting destructive LNG projects like PRGT.” -Grace Jeffries of Climate Justice Climatique UOttawa.
Six uOttawa students smiling and holding flyers, standing behind a grey folding table with more flyers.
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🔥 BREAKING: STUDENTS FIGHT BACK. From coast to coast, students on 9 campuses are rising up to #StopTheZombiePipeline calling out Canada’s Big 5 banks and Carneys "Building Canada Strong" Budget on their billion-dollar fossil fuel deals.

Take Action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” on the right cutout magazine lookalike reads in Black and white “Breaking News”. In the center open faded mouth in the background with Bold text in first Black reads STUDENT and in White text reads “ DAY OF ACTION” below in smaller font in white reads #BANKSOFFCAMPUS below the Change Course Logo in white. In the background traced in Black the Canadian Parliament building and over a text in Bold white reads “ Students on 9 campuses across “ Canada” Demand Banks divest from fossil fuels respond to Carneys’ “ Building Canada Strong “ budget We demands funds for a just transition! Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Text below in white reads “ Students are calling on the Big 5 Canadian banks (RBC, BMO, TD, CIBC, and Scotiabank) to stop financing fossil fuel expansion and to respect the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous people in all financing decisions. In particular, students are demanding that Canadian banks not finance new liquified natural gas (LNG) build-out in British Columbia, including the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT), which the Gitxsan and Gitanyow nations oppose.” In highlighted black and white bold text reads “ BIG 5 BANKS' FOSSIL FUEL FUNDING SINCE 2021 (IN BILLIONS)” Below a graph illustration of the 5 Banks on the left biggest bubble RBC faded logo with $181.4 Billion below, TD faded logo in a emission bubble over a factory and below reads “$141.2 Billion” on the left same graphic with Scotia Bank logo with below reads “ $131.4 Billion”, on the left same graphic with BMO logo below reads “ $98.8 Billion” anf finally CIBC logo below reads “$109.6 Billion” Below the graphic on the left reads in white “ Source: 2025 Banking on Climate Chaos Report” and the Change Course logo on the bottom right in white. Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Text below in white reads “ Young people are fed up and are protesting the new federal and provincial legislation, which may be used to roll back environmental reviews and has no guarantee of ‘free, prior, and informed’ Indigenous consent being on “projects of national interest.”Opening the doors for Canada’s big 5 banks to pour even more money into climate-wrecking LNG projects. Below in a bubble white box a text reads in black “Students are responding to the recently announced federal budget, which includes $81 BILLION in WEAPONS, BILLIONS MORE for FOSSIL FUEL subsidies, while imposing cuts to public services that will result in the loss of 40,000 jobs. Traced building at the back and change course white logo on the bottom right. Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Below in bold Black reads “ Action Alert” and below in smaller and white reads “ WHAT CAN YOU DO SUPPORT STUDENT DOA? 3 bubble white boxes with text reads “ Take our digital action linked in bio” “Tag Journalist!” “Boost our content everywhere” With 3 icons first a hand touching and megaphone icon, a tag follow icon and like heart icon. In the background an open mouth and the parliament building traced in black and the vhange course logo in white below.
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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If that makes you furious... use our email tool to tell Carney and the banks to stop funding fossil fuels and start prioritizing what the people actually need here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

#ChangeCourse #FossilBanksNoThanks #BanksOffCampus #RBCOffCampus
Bold black text in a red parallelogram reads “ACTION ALERT” with smaller white text below reading “Tell Carney and the Banks: Stop Funding Fossil Fuels!” Above, white text highlighted black reads “The federal budget just dropped... and it includes more $$ for resource extraction.” Below is a picture of an Action Network email tool that also is titled “Tell Carney and the Banks: Stop Funding Fossil Fuels!” With a red and white email envelope graphic. There is also a red parallelogram outlined white with a bold white title reading “Steps” and smaller white text reading “1. Use the tool (linked in bio) to send a letter in minutes: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-to-carney-and-banks 2. Add your own personal touch for a higher chance of receiving a response 3. Share and spread the word!” The background is a red-tinged photo of students holding signs at a UBC action, the signs visible say things like “LNG can’t be clean” and “Stop PRGT”. The Change Course logo is in the bottom right corner.
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM