‘ SCOTIA Nous sommes réunis ici aujourd’hui pour dénoncer le manque d’éthique de la Banque Scotia. Cette banque détient des investissements de 500 millions de dollars dans la compagnie Elbit Systems, la plus grande compagnie d’armement israélienne. Ces investissements font de la banque Scotia le plus grand investisseur étranger dans cette entreprise israélienne. […]
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The CDPQ December 31, 2023 year-end report includes over $14 billion of investments in companies complicit with Israeli war crimes and genocide. This represents just over 3 percent of the CDPQ total holdings of $434 billion. The CDPQ had investments totaling $1.5 billion in seven companies listed in the United Nations database of companies engaged in certain Israeli settlement
Le rapport de fin d’année de la CDPQ au 31 décembre 2023 comprend plus de 14 milliards de dollars d’investissements dans des entreprises complices de crimes de guerre et de génocide israéliens. Cela représente un peu plus de 3 % du total des avoirs de la CDPQ, qui s’élève à 434 milliards de dollars. Le CDPQ a
Fossil Fools Day is coming up on April 6th: join actions across the country targeting RBC to divest from the CGL pipeline violating Wet’suwet’en rights and companies arming Israel, such as Palantir. If you’re near Toronto, join the rally targeting RBC’s AGM on April 11th—stand in solidarity with the Indigenous delegation attending! Find these events and rsvp here: https://you.leadnow.ca/calendars/fossil-fools-day The
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Write a letter to the store manager, the worker-owners and board of the Big Carrot, as well as copy the owner of the Carrot Commons. The Big Carrot indicates that “as a worker-owned system, we value products that are produced in a system that fairly compensates the growers.” Their website says “Our department managers, purchasers
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YVES ENGLER On 27/03/2024 Once again, the accusation of antisemitism was weaponized to trump both common sense and support for the victims of Israel’s murderous rampage. Last week prominent Quebec cartoonist Serge Chapleau caricatured Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire. The cartoon published in La Presse reads “Nosfenyahou, en route to Rafah.” The pro-Israel and genocide lobby immediately
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Five public sector pension, one in BC and four in Ontario have almost a quarter of a billion dollars invested in companies that then UN has indicated are complicit with supporting illegal Israeli settlements (war crimes) and over $2 billion in total invested in companies complicit with war crimes and arming Israel. These combine with
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Write a letter to Costco Read coverage by Radio Canada March 10, 2024 Around fifteen members of the Solidarité Sherbrooke-Palestine group and citizens gathered in front of the Costco store in Sherbrooke to demand a boycott of Israeli products due to the current situation in Gaza. We are asking Costco to remove these products and
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On March 15, activists in Canada came out in a coordinated campaign to demand that Scotiabank and its global asset fund divest completely from Elbit Systems. At 28+ different branch locations, from Toronto and Peterborough to Courtney and Nanaimo, from St. Catharines and Regina to multiple locations around the lower mainland of BC, there were protests and pickets to
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Hundreds of people have taken up the pledge to not buy apartheid medjoul, but more than that seek out where retailers are selling apartheid medjoul and inform them that they need to remove these from their shelves, and not be selling produce from stolen illegally occupied Palestinian land. Pledges from large cities, to small rural
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