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Canadian Federation of Students–Ontario (CFS-Ontario)

October 11, 2026

In a September 27, 2024 statement, the Toronto-based provincial student federation wrote that students demand public institutions divest from investments and businesses "contributing to the Israeli settler-colonial apartheid state, and for everyone to join the boycott of companies and banks that are also complicit".

In April 2018, the Toronto coalition was listed on an open letter calling for economic sanctions on Israel. The CJPME list of Canadian organizations that endorse BDS names it.

OPIRG York, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York University, posted a statement on 2024-05-24 that calls on York University to "disclose, divest, boycott" and says it affirmed support for the BDS movement in October 2023. It is also listed as a supporter of the Together Against Apartheid campaign (togetheragainstapartheid.org).

IDRF is listed as a signatory of the open letter to Minister Joly of 30 August 2024, published on ploughshares.ca and oxfam.ca, which urges the Government of Canada to cease all exports of arms and arms components to Israel.

Ottawa Quaker Meeting is listed as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement calling for a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel, and a Canadian Quaker minute on quakerservice.ca that encourages a boycott of products of Israeli settlements names Ottawa Monthly Meeting.

No Arms In The Arts states on its website that it launched a campaign against Scotiabank in March 2024 and called on the Toronto Arts Foundation to cut ties with the Azrieli Foundation, and it appears on the Arms Embargo Now list.

The Workers' Action Centre in Toronto co-published on its Instagram account on 2025-09-04 a Draw the Line coalition post that says: "We demand an immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel".

CUPE 4600 published a statement on its website on 31 January 2024 that lists as a demand "an end to arms sales to Israel directly and through the United States". It is also listed as an organizational endorser of an Action Network letter that asks Capital Pride in Ottawa: "Will you adopt the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as a policy?" (actionnetwork.org).

Carleton University Human Rights Society is listed as an endorsing organization of the Vote Palestine platform, which calls for a full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel (votepalestine.ca). It is also listed as an organizational endorser of an Action Network letter that asks Capital Pride in Ottawa: "Will you adopt the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as a policy?" (actionnetwork.org).

Two news sites report on 2026-08-25 the same article saying delegates from the Peel local asked ETFO at its 2026-08-17 to 20 annual meeting to endorse the BDS movement and align investing, purchasing and procurement policies with it. ETFO referred the motion to further study.

Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT Canada), with an office in Toronto, is listed on the Arms Embargo Now statement that calls on the Canadian government to "impose a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel", on its copy published by the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, and on the Vote Palestine endorsing organizations list.

Indigenous Climate Action, an Ontario-based non-profit, 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 copy of that statement published by the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council.

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The National Union of Public and General Employees published a joint statement on 2024-04-02 urging the Canadian government to impose an arms embargo on Israel, and is listed as a submitter of Canadian Labour Congress 2026 convention resolution GEN-061 (hot cargo, Arms Embargo Now).

Waterloo Region Labour Council is listed as a submitter of Canadian Labour Congress 2026 convention resolution GEN-061, which calls on the CLC to declare trade, services and relationships with Israel "hot cargo", cut ties with the Histadrut and endorse the Arms Embargo Now campaign.

Socialist Action, a political organization active in the Toronto area, lists "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the Zionist state and economy!" among its demands in its June 2022 resolution, posted on socialistaction.ca, and it is listed as an endorser of the October 2024 BDS Week of Action.

The Disability Justice Network of Ontario, which lists Hamilton on its site, published a letter on 8 October 2025 urging the Canadian government to "Enact immediate and lasting sanctions on Israel" and to put in place "a two way arms embargo", and it is listed on the Vote Palestine endorsing organizations.

The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, an Ottawa coalition, wrote on its own site on 8 August 2025 that it urges the Canadian government "to make every effort to divest from these" companies named in a UN report on Israel's occupation, and it is listed on the Arms Embargo Now statement.

Rights Action 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", and is named among its signatories in a 2024-05-22 post on pbicanada.org.

Environmental Defence 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", and is named among its signatories in a 2024-05-22 post on pbicanada.org.

CAPE Local 522 is listed as an organizational endorser of an Action Network letter asking Capital Pride in Ottawa: "Will you adopt the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as a policy?", and as a signatory of the Arms Embargo Now statement.