July 2, 2021
Line 3 campaign builds momentum on banks: Bloomberg
Bloomberg Green recently covered the growing campaign to pressure banks – including Canada’s top fossil bank RBC – to stop funding the controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
Updates
June 18, 2021
Big Oil and Coal’s week from hell
In case you missed the news, giant coal and oil companies were hit from all sides this week.
June 8, 2021
“The People’s AGM” Target’s RBC’s Abuses
Several NGO’s came together for “the people’s AGM” with about 650 supporters willing to take action to press RBC to end its destructive practices.
June 2, 2021
The Big Smoke – Financial Centres Like Toronto Are Huge Climate Villains
For the first time, a recent report called The Big Smoke calculated the climate impact of one of the world’s financial centres – London.
May 14, 2021
Canada’s largest bank – RBC – is financing the Line 3 tar sand pipeline
Original blog at Stand.earth
In recent months, Indigenous Water Protectors and their supporters have been putting their bodies on the line to stop the construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline on Anishinaabe land in Northern Minnesota.
May 8, 2021
Defund Line 3 actions at banks around the world
This week, our US partners Stop the Money Pipeline organized a #DefundLine3 Global Day of Action, with protests at bank branches in Japan, Switzerland, Sierra Leone, Costa Rica, the UK, Holland, France and Canada, as well as about 50 cities in the U.S.
April 23, 2021
Police, town erase student’s RBC peaceful protest with great urgency
Originally reported by NewsNow.
Grassroots student activist Sophie Krouse was surprised to see the Niagara Regional Police show up at an RBC branch in small town Grimsby, Ontario on Earth day, only about 30 minutes after she started holding up a sign, putting up posters, and writing removable chalk messages on the sidewalk in front of their branch.
April 7, 2021
Canada’s Bank Directors Worst In World In Linkages To Polluters – Study
The boards of directors of Canada’s big banks are stacked with people with linkages to polluting industries – more so than any other country – according to a new analysis by De Smog.
April 1, 2021
New youth led campaign targets Canada’s banks
Today a new youth led initiative got off the ground called “Banking on a Better Future.” Launched outside the AGM of TD bank in Toronto, the campaign is asking youth to pledge to stop banking with fossil banks that are ruining the future.
March 29, 2021
Canada’s five largest banks have a big problem — fossil fuels
This article was originally published at The National Observer.
Canada’s five largest banks have a problem.