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CUPE 5524, the union of academic workers at the University of Waterloo, is listed on the Arms Embargo Now statement that calls on the Canadian government to "impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel", and on the Vote Palestine platform that asks for "a full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel".

In May and June 2024 CKMS Radio Waterloo and Community Edition reported that Occupy UW, a University of Waterloo student group, called for divestment and an academic and cultural boycott of institutions.

Project Ploughshares hosts on its own site (ploughshares.ca) the February 2024 open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs that urges "halting further arms exports, alongside export and brokering authorizations, to Israel" and is listed as a signatory, and is also listed as a signatory of the February 2025 letter of over 230 organizations that calls on F-35 partner governments to "immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel, directly and indirectly" (ploughshares.ca, caat.org.uk, anglicanlutheran.ca, hrw.org).

Independent Jewish Voices Waterloo Region is listed as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement, which calls on the Canadian government to impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel (armsembargonow.ca), and as an endorsing organization of the Vote Palestine platform, which calls for a full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel (votepalestine.ca).

Faculty for Palestine reports that the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association passed a motion on 2024-04-18 that it describes as a BDS motion, and a University of Ottawa APUO motion lists the association among unions that called for divestment from and boycott of institutions and corporations.

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In an October 2024 WUSA referendum, 83.9% of voters answered yes to "Should the University of Waterloo sever its partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology"; WUSA's board ratified the results and said the outcome becomes WUSA's official stance.