Lakehead University students join nation-wide movement to push big banks off campus

Lakehead University students join nation-wide movement to push big banks off campus

More than a dozen students involved in Climate Justice Lakehead held a rally outside the RBC branch at Lakehead University's Thunder Bay, Ont., campus on Wednesday. The event was part of a nation-wide week of action organized by Change Course for a movement called Banks Off Campus, which aims to put pressure on Canada’s major banks to stop funding the fossil fuel industry.

Student protest keeps efforts to get RBC off campus alive

Student groups across the country have been protesting the on-campus presence of banks that fund fossil fuels, like RBC, in a multi-year campaign.