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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Job market so fcked…I joined the campaign for a Good Work Guarantee! Join the Campus Organizing Welcome Call (Oct 6th @ 6pm ET/ 3pm PT) to build political power with other students and demand well-paid, sustainable, and safe work for ALL. Register here: actionnetwork.org/events/campu... #greensky

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📍University of Guelph 📍Simon Fraser University #BanksOffCampus #NoSubsidies

4 pictures first 2 pictures at the top are black and white leaflets glued on windows. Leaflet title “ No money for LNG! Solidarity with Land defenders” with Mark Carney face. Pink highlighted text in white bold says UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH. 2 pictures below of students smiling sitting down on table with small leaflets and banners that says “ Fuck banks” with a heart around it and another picture with projection with SFU350 and in blue “BANK DITCH TEACH IN” “March 20 2026.” In Pink highlighted text in white bold says SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY.

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

That’s a WRAP on the week of action, folks! So grateful to work with all of these brilliant organizers building student power on their campuses, and know this… we’re just getting started! 🔥 Check out some rad shots from the actions 👇

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Solidarité avec les peuples qui résistent ! 📍McGill #BanksOffCampus #NoSubsidies

Students with faces blurred holding banners reading “RBC KILLS”, “respect Indigenous sovereignty”, and “aucun pipeline sur des terres volées ! Solidarité avec les peuples qui résistent! À bas PRGT”

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Catch Climate Justice UBC at the Nest for a reimagining of what it could look like if students could vote on what businesses they actually want on their campus! Come by any time before 5pm to imagine a Nest beyond RBC! (p.s there are also zines and snacks 👀) #BanksOffCampus #NoSubsidies

Come say hi to us at the nest! And see your vision for the nest being mapped! There are also photos of a vision board, zines, and muffins

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

More excellent coverage in CBC of the amazing students of Climate Justice Lakehead, and the fight to end @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social’s on-campus lease with RBC! #BanksOffCampus #NoSubsidies Read here 👇 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Photo of Heather, a curly haired blonde woman in a green sweater and beaded earrings, holding a sign reading “stop fuelling the climate crisis, stop funding all pipelines”, with other students holding climate action and RBC off campus signs in front of the on campus RBC

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Heather from Climate Justice Lakehead is on CBC Radio, discussing the student action against fossil fuel financing by RBC and Canada’s big banks! Listen here 👇 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

A CBC reporter has a mic out to a curly haired student in a green sweater, with other students holding climate action and RBC off campus signs in the background in front of the RBC on campus branch

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Workers at the University of Guelph covered the campus in posters as part of the week of action against fossil fuel financing! #BanksOffCampus #NoSubsidies

Photo of “no money for LNG solidarity with land defenders” posters on a wall in the University of Guelph

Photo of “no money for LNG solidarity with land defenders” poster on the side of an RBC on campus at the University of Guelph

Photo of “no money for LNG solidarity with land defenders” by posters on the university of Guelph alumni association climbing wall info area

Photo of a “no money for LNG solidarity with land defenders” poster next to cibc atms on the university of Guelph campus

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🔥📣Today students at Climate Justice lakehead at @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social did their action in front of their RBC on-campus branch!

Students and workers in front of an on campus rbc branch with banners and protest signs. ( RBC Canada worst fossil fuel, later is too late, climate action now)

Students and workers in front of an on campus rbc branch with banners and protest signs. In front 2 individuals taking an interview with CBC

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

On the first day of our national week of action on Friday March 6th, @climatejusticeuoft.bsky.social #bankoffcampus campaign did a banner drop at Uoft business school @rotmanschool.bsky.social

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

BREAKING: #BANKSOFFCAMPUS & #NOSUBSIDIES National Week of Action: Students on NINE CAMPUSES taking action to demand an end to fossil fuel financing ✊

The graphic features a bold pink box at the center, framed by a beige highlight along its edges. The words "BREAKING NEWS" repeat in black, bold text around the top edge of the box.
Outside the pink box, in the background is a collage of black-and-white protest banners,Inside the pink box a faded map of Canada and a silhouette of Mark Carney serve as a subtle backdrop.In the box the main text is arranged as follows: "NATIONAL" in black, bold, and highlighted with beige , "WEEK OF ACTION" in white, bold text directly below #BanksOffCampus and #NoSubsidies in black, bold, smaller text, each highlighted with beige, "March 6 - 13" in white, bold text at the bottom On the right side of the pink box, there are nine logos representing student groups and the "Change Course" campaign.Below the pink box, partially obscured by it, is a pixelated, black-and-white illustration of Canada’s Parliament building, glowing with a red aura. Overlaid on this illustration is bold white text that reads:
"9 campuses TAKING ACTION in solidarity with land defenders against Carney’s 'nation-building.'"

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

You will hear from Rafaela Sa a research associate at the Public Banking Project and a PhD student in Political Science (International Relations) at McMaster University and @cupwsttp.bsky.social representative Adrian Murray and Lindsay Mathyssen. 😍Full bio in graphic below! #Cupw

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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...

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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!"

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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!”

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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.

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“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

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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 …

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“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

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"We're saying clearly: stop funding destruction and start securing a livable future before ours burns away." - Lola from RBC Off-Campus UBC-O

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"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.

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“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

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

“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

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

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#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.

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🔥 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...

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Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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