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The Eyeopener reported on 2024-05-11 that the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association voted in favour of a motion to form a committee whose objectives include divestment of the university's holdings and review of its cooperation with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.

Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa

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At its annual general meeting on 2025-04-30 the APUO approved a motion resolving that the APUO "immediately and permanently divests from institutions, corporations and other entities enabling human rights violations, war crimes, and any other breaches of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory".

CanLit Responds

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A group of authors and cultural workers in Toronto published a letter on its website dated 2024-07-10 that demands the Giller Foundation "Cut ties with all funders directly invested in Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine", and a Boycott Giller page that calls on Canadian authors and book workers to refuse to submit books or take part in Giller events until the prize drops Scotiabank, Indigo Books and the Azrieli Foundation as sponsors. A page dated 2026-04-09 states the boycott has ended.

FURDOSE

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A Toronto art shop sells a print on its own website under the product name "Globalize the Intifada", published 2025-07-21, whose description ends "Globalize the intifada."

University of Toronto Faculty Association

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At a members' meeting on 2025-05-08, the University of Toronto Faculty Association passed a motion calling on the University Pension Plan to divest from all holdings in "entities engaged in activities that support or sustain Israel’s illegal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory".

A Mississauga lounge posted on its Instagram account on 2023-12-11 that it would stay closed for a global shutdown for Palestine, with the hashtag #boycottisrael.

Meshwar Media

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A Mississauga newspaper published an article on its website on 2025-06-01, under its editor's byline, with a headline stating that the crimes of "Israeli fascism" in Gaza "surpassed the atrocity of the German Nazi gas ovens".

Toronto performing arts organization whose Instagram account posted on 2025-03-05 a slide stating it joins a coalition endorsing the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli institutions.

Toronto emerging theatre artists collective that posted on Instagram on 2025-03-05 that it is endorsing PACBI.

Toronto performing arts incubator that posted on Instagram on 2025-03-05 that it is joining a coalition of performing arts organizations endorsing the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli institutions.

Toronto performing arts collective that posted on Instagram on 2025-08-17 "manidoons collective stands with PACBI" under a group PACBI endorsement announcement.

Toronto and York Region Labour Council

October 15, 2026

On 6 February 2026, the Toronto and York Region Labour Council published on its website a list of resolutions for the 2026 Canadian Labour Congress convention, recommended by its Executive Board, including one calling on the CLC to declare trade, services and relationships with Israel to be "hot cargo".

Silsila

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Silsila, an online directory and app, publishes a "Boycott List" with an entry titled "Israeli produce" in the category "BDS Target", and it is listed as a signatory of the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge.

In November 2023 Upping the Anti, a Toronto journal, published the Publishers for Palestine Statement of Solidarity on its own blog with "Upping the Anti, Canada" among the signatories; the statement's demands include "Uphold the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid."

CUPE Ontario

October 13, 2026

In an August 2022 statement, CUPE Ontario wrote that it "has taken a position in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement (BDS)".

McMaster Students Union

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In a statement adopted by its Student Representative Assembly on September 12, 2021, the McMaster Students Union cited its 2015 General Assembly vote "endorsing the 2005 call for Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions" and said it "has already stopped purchasing from, and will continue to refrain from purchasing from" seven named companies.

University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union

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The UTGSU website lists a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Caucus that "coordinates efforts to educate and mobilize the membership and our broader community in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement".

Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association

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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.

Trent University Faculty Association

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In June 2024 the Trent University Faculty Association passed a motion that it will "press Trent University to end any institutional ties it has to the Israeli military, defence, security, and technology sectors", and in May 2025 it announced it is divesting from Scotiabank over the bank's investment in Elbit Systems.

CUPE 3913

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CUPE 3913, the union of teaching assistants and sessional instructors at the University of Guelph, co-submitted Resolution 113 to CUPE's October 2025 national convention, calling on CUPE to "endorse, support and implement concrete actions of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign" against Israel.