Timeline: BDS in Toronto and Canada, 1945–2026

This timeline lists dated events in the history of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as it bears on Toronto and Canada, from the Arab League boycott of 2 December 1945 to Ontario’s revised Bill 166 enforcement directive of September 2026, with a source for each entry. The Toronto Coalition Against Racist Boycotts records these events to show that BDS is an organized campaign to isolate the Jewish state, and that Canada’s Parliament, Ontario’s legislature, the courts and Toronto’s universities have repeatedly declined to adopt it. Entries dated only to a month or year carry the year and month or the year alone; “c.” marks a date the sources give approximately.

  1. 1945-12-02: The Arab League Council declares a boycott of Jewish, later Zionist, products, the antecedent of the modern boycott campaign against Israel. S075
  2. 2001-09: The NGO Forum of the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa (August–September 2001), adopts a declaration calling for the complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state (paragraph 424). S086
  3. 2004-04-06: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is founded in Ramallah. S130 S075
  4. 2005-02: The first Israeli Apartheid Week is held at the University of Toronto, organized by the Arab Students’ Collective. S136 S122
  5. 2005-07-09: About 170 Palestinian organizations issue the BDS call with its three cumulative demands: an end to the occupation of lands occupied in 1967, full equality for Arab citizens of Israel, and the return of Palestinian refugees under United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194. S126
  6. 2006-05: CUPE Ontario adopts Resolution 50 endorsing a boycott of Israel. S155 S152
  7. 2007-06: University of Toronto President David Naylor writes to the general secretary of the United Kingdom’s University and College Union rejecting an academic boycott of Israeli universities. The Governing Council minutes of 25 June 2007 record that the Executive Committee agreed on 14 June 2007 that the President should write, that the letter had been written and circulated to governors by 25 June, and that the President told the Council academic boycotts were antithetical to the fundamental values of the University. S210 S121 The letter itself, Appendix A to those minutes, is not online and no precise date for it has been verified.
  8. 2007-11: The first Palestinian BDS conference in Ramallah establishes the BDS National Committee (BNC). S075
  9. 2012-03-31: PACBI publishes its position rejecting settlement-only boycotts, calling settlements a symptom and the state the root cause. S132
  10. 2012-08: The United Church of Canada’s 41st General Council, meeting in Ottawa from 11 to 18 August 2012, adopts an Israel and Palestine policy providing for a boycott of settlement products only; the church’s own 2012 working group advised against a comprehensive boycott of Israel and against using the language of apartheid. The Unsettling Goods campaign itself launched the following year, in 2013. The church’s own question-and-answer document on the campaign answers the question whether this is the same as a boycott of Israel: “No. We are not recommending a boycott of Israel or of Israeli goods.” S202 S251 S152
  11. 2012-12-10: The University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (UTGSU) passes a BDS resolution with about 97% of more than 150 attendees in favour. S157
  12. 2013-03-21: The York Federation of Students (YFS) endorses BDS 18–2 after a Students Against Israeli Apartheid petition of about 5,000 signatures. S190
  13. 2013-12-20: The Association of American Universities, whose members include the University of Toronto and McGill University, states that a boycott of Israeli academic institutions directly violates academic freedom. S037
  14. 2014-01-20: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, addressing the Knesset, links boycotts of Israel to historic boycotts of Jewish businesses. S012
  15. 2014-04-02: The Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) votes to join BDS at its annual general meeting; President Sheldon Levy says Ryerson University does not support it and that the union is a separate entity. S177
  16. 2015-03-13: Justin Trudeau, then Liberal leader, writes on Twitter that BDS, like Israeli Apartheid Week, has no place on Canadian campuses, after the McGill student society vote of 512–357. S013
  17. 2015-07-28: At an emergency meeting, the University of Toronto Students’ Union board of directors rejects the creation and funding of a BDS exploratory committee by secret ballot, 17 against to 7 in favour with 2 abstentions. S112 The union’s 2015 board minutes are not published, so the tally rests on contemporaneous press reporting.
  18. 2015-08-11: The United Church of Canada’s 42nd General Council, meeting in Corner Brook, adopts a resolution on education and advocacy about divestment from and sanctions against companies it calls complicit in the occupation; the church said on its own website that the resolution was advocacy and encouragement rather than binding direction, and the same council rejected a proposal to end support for a two-state solution. A general council staffer said the church does not align itself with the goals of the overall BDS movement. The church’s own question-and-answer document sets out the resolution in full and ties each of its three limbs to the occupation rather than to Israel, in the verbs “initiating and developing” a program of education and advocacy, “recommends” and “encouraging”. Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East counts the resolution as a BDS endorsement. S204 S251 S152
  19. 2016-02-22: The House of Commons adopts the opposition motion rejecting BDS, 229–51, with Liberal government support (Vote No. 14). S001
  20. 2016-02-27: McGill University Principal Suzanne Fortier states that BDS is contrary to academic freedom and that the administration will have no part of it, after the student society’s BDS motion, whose online ratification fails with 57 per cent against and 43 per cent in favour, 6 per cent abstaining. S042
  21. 2016-04: The Canadian BDS Coalition holds its inaugural conference call, adopting a shared Basis of Unity; its About page quotes founding minutes of April 2016 choosing the name in answer to the House of Commons condemnation of February 2016. S223 S142
  22. 2016-04-21: York University President Mamdouh Shoukri says York’s board-approved policies do not support BDS or divestment. S175
  23. 2016-05-19: Ontario Bill 202, Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism in Ontario Act, which would have barred universities from supporting BDS, is lost on a recorded division at second reading, 18 in favour to 39 against. S235 S015 S165
  24. 2016-11-29: A Ryerson Students’ Union meeting loses quorum after a walkout on a Holocaust Education Week motion; the union’s board adopts the motion on 19 December 2016. S102
  25. 2016-12-01: The Legislative Assembly of Ontario carries Private Members’ Notice of Motion No. 36, moved by Gila Martow, rejecting differential treatment of Israel including BDS, 49 to 5, the first province to do so; the Votes and Proceedings name the five members who voted against, all New Democrats. S016 S166
  26. 2017: Unifor, headquartered in Toronto, adopts a BDS resolution. S124 S152
  27. 2017-11-06: York University President Rhonda Lenton states that no academic boycott was considered or voted on, that the term boycott was not in the motion, and that York does not support academic boycotts, after a Faculty of Environmental Studies council vote of 15–7 not to seek a new Arava Institute agreement. The Canadian Jewish News reported the exchange on 10 November 2017, dating the council vote to 26 October 2017 and adding one abstention. S244 S176
  28. 2018: The Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Canadian Federation of Students endorse BDS. S152
  29. 2018-11-07: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, delivering the House of Commons apology for the MS St. Louis, says Jewish students feel unwelcome on some campuses because of BDS-related intimidation. S014 S187
  30. 2019-05-27: Bill C-85, implementing the modernized Canada–Israel Free Trade Agreement, receives royal assent. S004
  31. 2019-07-29: The Federal Court, in Kattenburg v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 FC 1003, finds Product-of-Israel labels on Psagot wines misleading. S021 S023
  32. 2019-09-01: The modernized Canada–Israel Free Trade Agreement comes into force. S005 S004
  33. 2019-11-20: A clash at York University’s Vari Hall involving Students Against Israeli Apartheid protesters takes place with about 42 York security and Toronto police officers present. S030
  34. 2019-12-18: York University announces an independent external review of the Vari Hall incident by former Supreme Court of Canada justice Thomas A. Cromwell. S031
  35. 2020-01-22: The Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) adopts a motion refusing engagement with pro-Israel groups and attaching a condition to kosher-food sourcing. This is a later and separate motion: the register of Canadian BDS endorsers dates the union’s BDS endorsement to April 2013 and carries no 2020 entry for it. S103 S152
  36. 2020-04-30: The York University Independent Review by Thomas A. Cromwell (84 pages), based on 22 interviews and nine written briefs, is dated; the review recommends clarifying the limits of protest. S030 A release date of 2 June 2020 and a count of 41 recommendations are reported elsewhere but are not confirmed by any York-hosted page, so neither is stated here.
  37. 2020-10-06: A single judge of the Federal Court of Appeal, in 2020 FCA 164, dismisses several motions for leave to intervene in the Kattenburg appeal and adds Psagot Winery Ltd. as a respondent. The decision does not touch the merits: it neither sets aside the 2019 Federal Court ruling nor remits anything to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. S021
  38. 2021-02: The University of Toronto’s Complaint and Resolution Council for Student Societies finds that the UTGSU BDS-caucus bylaws violate university policy by excluding participation on the basis of beliefs. S026
  39. 2021-04-01: The Supreme Court of Canada dismisses the would-be interveners’ application for leave to appeal 2020 FCA 164 (docket 39474); the question at issue was intervener status, not wine labelling. S022
  40. 2021-05-05: The Federal Court of Appeal decides the merits of the Kattenburg appeal in 2021 FCA 86: the Crown’s appeal is dismissed, but the court holds that the Federal Court should not have decided the labelling question itself and remits the matter to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which is not bound by the Federal Court’s reasons. S199
  41. 2021-12-08: The University of Toronto’s Anti-Semitism Working Group, chaired by Arthur Ripstein, delivers its final report; the administration accepts all eight recommendations. S027 S028
  42. 2022-02-16: The University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU) passes a member-submitted divestment motion at a special general meeting, binding only the union’s own funds. The union published no vote count and no minutes for the meeting; its statement the next day records only that “the majority voted in favour”. Press figures conflict: the Jerusalem Post reported 299 to 143, the Algemeiner 299 to 243, and The Varsity’s account of the meeting gives no count. S211 S163 S220 S164
  43. 2022-03-08: University of Toronto Provost Cheryl Regehr withholds $10,918 (0.86% of fees) from the UTGSU for failing to act on the February 2021 ruling. S026
  44. 2022: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency redetermines that, without clarifying information, “Product of Israel” on the two Psagot wine labels is false, because the wines were not produced within Israel’s internationally recognized boundaries. The decision itself is not published on any government site. S201 Its exact date in 2022 is likewise not publicly available.
  45. 2022-04-12: University of British Columbia President Santa Ono states that UBC does not support BDS and cannot support the student society’s divestment motion of 23 March 2022; President Benoit-Antoine Bacon reaffirms the position on the same page on 18 December 2023. S041
  46. 2023-10-20: Students at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law issue an open letter with 74 signatures calling Israel an apartheid state; the school’s administration condemns the antisemitism expressed on 23 October 2023. S032
  47. 2023-10-20: A $15-million class action is filed against York University and the York Federation of Students on behalf of Jewish students and alumni. S194
  48. 2023-11-10: Indigo’s Bay and Bloor store in Toronto is postered and paint-splashed at about 4:15 am; one person is arrested on 14 November 2023 and ten more on 22 November 2023, and on 30 November 2023 all eleven are additionally charged with criminal harassment, thirty charges in total. The Crown later withdrew charges against four accused on 17 May 2024 and three more on 27 March 2025, seven of eleven in all; four accused pleaded guilty, two of whom received absolute discharges, with the remaining two due for sentencing on 10 April 2025. The Crown’s summary of facts put the damage at about $9,000 and about fifty posters. S237 S238 S239 The outcome of the 10 April 2025 sentencing of the final two accused has not been reported in any source located for this entry; the only account found is legal commentary that gives no neutral citation and no date, so nothing is stated here about how the prosecution ended.
  49. 2024-04-08: University of Toronto President Meric Gertler responds to Occupy for Palestine: academic boycotts of any kind are antithetical to the university’s mission, and the university will not divest on political demands. S025
  50. 2024-04-30: A one-day community sit-in is held at Toronto Metropolitan University from 2 pm to 10 pm, outdoors at the intersection of Victoria and Gould Streets, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Students for Justice in Palestine at TMU and allied groups. The demands, as paraphrased by the campus newspaper from a list it says is not exhaustive, are disclosure of the university’s investments, endowments and donors; divestment from businesses profiting from the State of Israel; and an academic boycott ending study-abroad programs, research initiatives and relationships with Israeli universities. It was not an encampment and did not occupy a building. The university issued a statement the same day that it is wholly committed to community members’ right to lawful assembly and peaceful protest, and that activities posing a risk to the campus or its members would not be tolerated. S227 S248
  51. 2024-05-02: The University of Toronto encampment begins at King’s College Circle, demanding disclosure, divestment and an end to ties with Israeli academic institutions. S024 S025
  52. 2024-05-16: Ontario Bill 166, Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, receives royal assent, requiring every Ontario college and university to have policies addressing antisemitism. S018
  53. 2024-05-27: The OCAD University Faculty Association passes a motion unanimously at its spring membership meeting; its letter of 30 May 2024 to the university president calls for investment disclosure and a responsible-investment working group, and conveys the association’s endorsement of a petition to cut ties with all RBC partnerships and with the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. S230 S152
  54. 2024-05-31: Toronto Metropolitan University releases J. Michael MacDonald’s external review (204 pages) of the law-school letter: no breach of the student code because the letter was protected expression, alongside findings of deep hurt for Jewish students. S032 S033
  55. 2024-07-02: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Koehnen J.) grants the University of Toronto an injunction in 2024 ONSC 3755, finding a strong prima facie case of trespass. The court expressly declined to decide whether the Charter applied, because no notice of constitutional question had been served, and decided the case on Charter values; an alternative analysis in Appendix A concluded that the Charter would not apply and that any breach would in any event be justified under section 1. The court found that some speech on the encampment’s exterior rose to hate speech, while finding no evidence that the named respondents or occupants used slogans with any intention of violence, antisemitism or hatred. S024 S171 S170
  56. 2024-07-03: The University of Toronto encampment is cleared by the court’s 6 pm deadline. S171 S024
  57. 2024-07-26: The Ontario Public Service Employees Union announces that it has committed itself to the BDS campaign. The measure is Resolution I1, printed under the heading “World Issues” at page 31 of the resolutions package for the union’s convention of 24 to 27 April 2024 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, submitted by Local 518 together with the Provincial Human Rights Committee, Locals 532 and 503, the Provincial Young Workers Committee, the Indigenous Circle, the Greater Toronto Area Council and Rainbow Alliance arc-en-ciel. Its single resolving clause commits the union to actively support the international BDS campaign, and carries the demand for a right of return of Palestinian refugees under United Nations Resolution 194; one recital, pulling the other way, describes the intent of BDS as a targeted consumer boycott of select retailers. Deliberation on the resolution was not completed by the close of convention, so it went, as unfinished convention business does, to the union’s Executive Board, which passed it. The resolution was not adopted at the convention. S245 S246 S236
  58. 2024-08-12: The American Association of University Professors withdraws its categorical opposition to academic boycotts, held since 2005. S172
  59. 2024-10: Twenty-seven Jewish members of OPSEU file applications at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario alleging a hostile antisemitic environment and seeking, among other remedies, a ban on union funding of BDS initiatives; the applications are pending. S097
  60. 2024-11-19: The York University Faculty Association approves a motion at its fall general membership meeting, attended by more than 210 members, calling for a university-wide audit of financial holdings followed by divestment and for York to end all cooperation with Israeli academic and cultural institutions contributing to the war and occupation. The association published no vote count. S229 S152
  61. 2024-12-10: The House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights presents its report on heightened antisemitism, with 19 recommendations including a national review of campus antisemitism. S006
  62. 2025: Delegates to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union’s 2025 convention reject a resolution that, in the words of a later resolution submitted by four of the union’s locals, targeted Israel exclusively. The 2024 commitment made by the union’s Executive Board stands. S247
  63. 2025-05-08: The University of Toronto Faculty Association votes at a member-initiated general meeting to press the University Pension Plan to divest, 714 in favour to 585 opposed with 66 abstentions out of 1,365 voters and roughly 3,500 members. The association is a joint sponsor of the plan but cannot direct its investment policy. S215 S152
  64. 2025-05-22: Toronto City Council adopts item CC30.5 by 16 votes to 9 and enacts By-law 488-2025, in force 2 July 2025, allowing a 50-metre access area to be established on the owner’s application around a childcare centre, place of worship or school, for one renewable year. Contravention is an offence punishable by a fine under the Provincial Offences Act; the by-law sets no dollar figure, does not cover community centres, and expressly does not prohibit peaceful protest. S020 S217 S169
  65. 2025-09-19: Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, is introduced in the House of Commons by Justice Minister Sean Fraser. S008
  66. 2025-09-19: A protest at a Toronto Metropolitan University event leads to an arrest that the 2026 Benotto review later finds reasonable and lawful. S034 S178
  67. 2025-10-10: The McGill Association of University Teachers endorses an academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions at a special general meeting, 104 in favour to 8 opposed with 2 abstentions, a result McGill’s Provost records as roughly 11 per cent of the association’s 962 members and 5 per cent of eligible academic staff. McGill states that the association does not speak for the university and that the administration does not intend to cut ties with Israeli academic institutions. S228
  68. 2025-11-05: Protesters force entry to an off-campus venue hosting a Students Supporting Israel event at Toronto Metropolitan University with Israeli veterans, shattering a glass door and injuring a veteran; six people are arrested. S178
  69. 2025-11: Toronto Metropolitan University appoints former Court of Appeal justice Mary Lou Benotto to conduct an external review after the two incidents. S034
  70. 2026-01-29: Pride Toronto members reject a member proposal that would have bound the organization to the boycott movement’s academic and cultural boycott guidelines. The proposal, dated 27 November 2025, would have committed Pride Toronto to a publicly available ethical sponsorship and partnership policy, refused sponsorship or partnership with companies on the boycott list, with arms companies and with financial institutions funding them, and suspended any new or renewed sponsorships, vendor registrations and parade entries in conflict with that policy pending full implementation S249. The notice of the annual and special meeting, dated 16 January 2026, records the board’s position that its own sponsorship review and existing screening and parade-participant policies were a more appropriate way to address the concerns, and urged members to vote against the proposal S250. The Canadian Jewish News reported the result as 77 against to 24 in favour with 1 abstention; Pride Toronto has published no minutes of the meeting, so that tally rests on this single report S240.
  71. 2026-02: Four locals of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union submit a resolution to the union’s 2026 convention, by the submission deadline of 6 February 2026, reciting that the Executive Board committed the union to BDS in 2024 without union-wide consultation or a direct mandate from convention, and resolving that the union withdraw from the campaign. The resolutions package records the resolution as submitted only. It has not carried, and the union has not withdrawn from BDS. S247
  72. 2026-03-21: A McGill Law Students’ Association referendum held from 19 to 21 March 2026 passes with 57.3 per cent in favour on 67.3 per cent turnout, embedding support for an academic boycott in the association’s bylaws. McGill President Deep Saini declares the amendments inoperative and non-receivable, after Provost Angela Campbell and Dean Tina Piper had intervened separately before the ballot closed, and a Montreal court dismisses a student’s application for a provisional injunction on 27 March 2026. S241 No neutral citation for the injunction ruling could be verified and reports conflict on which court heard it, so this entry names neither the court nor the decision.
  73. 2026-04-17: Just Peace Advocates and the Canadian BDS Coalition publish a divestment report claiming that more than 100 Canadian institutions hold $526 billion in companies the Coalition calls complicit; the definition of complicity is the Coalition’s own. S151
  74. 2026-04-21: The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights publishes its report on antisemitism, with 22 recommendations; the report does not use the term BDS. S007
  75. 2026-05-14: The Toronto Police Service presents its 2025 Annual Hate Crime Statistical Report to the Police Services Board: 231 reported hate crimes, a 50 per cent decrease against the revised 2024 figure of 462 occurrences, 81 of them anti-Jewish, 35 per cent of the total. The report restates 2024 as 180 anti-Jewish occurrences, against the 177 first published, and states that none of the 231 occurrences in 2025 happened during a protest. The accompanying news release reports hate crimes in 2026 to that date up 40 per cent. S053 S053
  76. 2026-06-18: Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, receives royal assent. S008
  77. 2026-07-22: Statistics Canada reports 788 police-reported anti-Jewish hate crimes for 2025, 70.7% of all religion-motivated hate crimes; its revised series gives 492, 527, 959, 943 and 788 for 2021 through 2025. S050 S051
  78. 2026-08: Canadian Heritage releases the Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences survey: 95.7% of Jewish students surveyed experienced or witnessed antisemitism, and 54% of general students said boycotting Jewish-owned businesses is not antisemitic. S065
  79. 2026-08-14: Toronto Metropolitan University releases the Benotto external review (190 pages), which finds that divestment and boycott initiatives are not politically neutral, and appoints Bob Rae to chair an implementation task force. S034 S035
  80. 2026-08-24: Montreal City Council adopts a Palestinian-solidarity motion 54–6 only after removing the words genocide and apartheid and the call to suspend institutional ties with Israel. S192
  81. 2026-09-10: Ontario’s Ministry of Colleges and Universities publishes a revised minister’s directive on anti-racism and anti-hate, replacing the directive of 9 September 2024 and providing that where an institution fails to comply the minister may reduce operating or other funding, issue a further directive, or take such further action as the minister considers appropriate. The directive is headed “Revised September 2026” and the page is stamped as updated on 10 September 2026. S207 S195 The only existing archive snapshot of this page captures the previous 2024 version, not the revised text.

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  17. [S024] Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Koehnen J.). “University of Toronto (Governing Council) v. Doe et al., 2024 ONSC 3755” (released 2 July 2024). https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2024/2024onsc3755/2024onsc3755.html [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20241123174603/https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2024/2024onsc3755/2024onsc3755.html]. Establishes the encampment start date, the injunction’s terms, the court’s refusal to decide Charter applicability, and the alternative analysis in Appendix A.
  18. [S025] University of Toronto, Office of the President. “President Meric Gertler’s response to members of Occupy for Palestine” (8 April 2024). https://president.utoronto.ca/president-meric-gertlers-response-to-members-of-occupy-for-palestine/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the university’s rejection of academic boycotts and of political divestment, and the demands Occupy for Palestine put to it.
  19. [S026] University of Toronto News. “U of T’s Provost withholds fees from graduate students’ union after it fails to act on student panel ruling” (8 March 2022). https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-s-provost-withholds-fees-graduate-students-union-after-it-fails-act-student-panel-ruling [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260615110524/https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-s-provost-withholds-fees-graduate-students-union-after-it-fails-act-student-panel-ruling]. Establishes the February 2021 ruling on the graduate students’ union bylaws and the amount withheld in March 2022.
  20. [S027] University of Toronto, Division of People Strategy, Equity & Culture. “Anti-Semitism Working Group (chair Arthur Ripstein) - report page” (8 December 2021). https://people.utoronto.ca/inclusion/anti-racism-strategic-tables/anti-semitism-working-group/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the date of the Anti-Semitism Working Group report.
  21. [S028] University of Toronto News. “U of T accepts all recommendations of Anti-Semitism Working Group” (December 2021). https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-accepts-all-recommendations-anti-semitism-working-group [archive: none located]. Establishes the university’s acceptance of the working group’s recommendations.
  22. [S030] York University, Office of the President. “York University Independent Review (Hon. Thomas A. Cromwell)” (dated 30 April 2020). https://president.yorku.ca/files/2020/06/Justice-Cromwell%E2%80%99s-Independent-External-Review.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20251112210646/https://president.yorku.ca/files/2020/06/Justice-Cromwell%E2%80%99s-Independent-External-Review.pdf]. Establishes the review’s cover title, its date of 30 April 2020, its 84-page length and its scope.
  23. [S031] York University (yFile). “Announcement of independent external review of Nov 20 incident” (18 December 2019). https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2019/12/18/announcement-of-independent-external-review-of-nov-20-incident/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260313013918/https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2019/12/18/announcement-of-independent-external-review-of-nov-20-incident/]. Establishes the announcement of the review and the reviewer’s former judicial office.
  24. [S032] Toronto Metropolitan University. “Strengthening the Pillars: External Review of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law open letter (Hon. J. Michael MacDonald)” (31 May 2024). https://www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/report-release/TMU%20External%20Review%20Report%20dated%20May%2031,%202024.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260219042714/https://www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/report-release/TMU%20External%20Review%20Report%20dated%20May%2031%2C%202024.pdf]. Establishes the open letter of 20 October 2023 and the review’s findings on it.
  25. [S033] Toronto Metropolitan University. “TMU external review report release page (MacDonald review)” (31 May 2024). https://www.torontomu.ca/report-release/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260804055206/https://www.torontomu.ca/report-release/]. Establishes the release date of the 2024 external review.
  26. [S034] Toronto Metropolitan University. “External Review Report 2025-2026 (Hon. Mary Lou Benotto with Margot Finley)” (14 August 2026). https://www.torontomu.ca/external-review/reports/external-review-report.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260907132544/https://www.torontomu.ca/external-review/reports/external-review-report.pdf]. Establishes the Benotto review’s appointment, length and findings.
  27. [S035] Toronto Metropolitan University (media release). “TMU receives Justice Benotto report, appoints task force to address findings” (August 2026). https://www.torontomu.ca/media/releases/2026/08/tmu-receives-justice-benotto-report-appoints-task-force-to-address-findings/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the appointment of the implementation task force.
  28. [S037] Association of American Universities (via statements.cornell.edu). “AAU Executive Committee statement on boycott of Israeli academic institutions (as posted by Cornell)” (20 December 2013). https://statements.cornell.edu/2013/20131220-aau-statement.cfm [archive: none located]. Establishes the Association of American Universities statement of 20 December 2013.
  29. [S041] University of British Columbia, Office of the President. “Statement on BDS (Santa J. Ono; December 2023 update signed by Benoit-Antoine Bacon)” (12 April 2022, updated 18 December 2023). https://president.ubc.ca/statement/2022/04/12/statement-on-bds/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260420191133/https://president.ubc.ca/statement/2022/04/12/statement-on-bds/]. Establishes UBC’s position that it does not support BDS and the December 2023 reaffirmation.
  30. [S042] McGill University (McGill Reporter). “Students reject BDS motion (statement by Principal Suzanne Fortier)” (27 February 2016). https://reporter.mcgill.ca/students-reject-bds-motion/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20250909222133/https://reporter.mcgill.ca/students-reject-bds-motion/]. Establishes McGill’s position and the failed ratification vote, 57 per cent against to 43 per cent in favour.
  31. [S050] Statistics Canada. “Police-reported hate crime, 2025 (The Daily)” (22 July 2026). https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260722/dq260722a-eng.htm [archive: none located]. Establishes the 2025 national totals and shares.
  32. [S051] Statistics Canada. “Police-reported hate crime by motivation, 2021-2025 (Table 6a)” (22 July 2026). https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260722/t006a-eng.htm [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260818013332/https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260722/t006a-eng.htm]. Establishes the five-year series for anti-Jewish police-reported hate crime.
  33. [S053] Toronto Police Service. “Toronto Police Service 2025 Annual Hate Crime Statistical Report news release” (news release, 14 May 2026). https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65932/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the 2025 Toronto figures as announced and the 40 per cent year-to-date rise reported for 2026, which appears in the release only.
  34. [S065] Association for Canadian Studies / Metropolis Institute with NECA; commissioned by Canadian Heritage. “Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report” (August 2026). https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/canada-holocaust/antisemitism/campus-antisemitism-student-experiences.html [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260921044138/https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/canada-holocaust/antisemitism/campus-antisemitism-student-experiences.html]. Establishes the survey findings and the separation between the Jewish-student and general-student samples.
  35. [S075] Jewish Virtual Library (AICE; Mitchell Bard). “History of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement” (undated). https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bds-movement [archive: none located]. Establishes the 1945 Arab League boycott, the 2004 founding of PACBI and the 2007 founding of the BDS National Committee.
  36. [S086] Jewish Virtual Library (AICE). “Durban I: UN Conference against Racism 2001” (undated). https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/durban-i-un-conference-against-racism-2001 [archive: none located]. Establishes paragraph 424 of the Durban NGO Forum declaration.
  37. [S097] Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). “Unionized Jewish employees taking OPSEU to Ontario Human Rights Tribunal” (October 2024). https://www.cija.ca/unionized_jewish_employees_taking_opseu_to_ontario_human_rights_tribunal [archive: none located]. Establishes the 27 applications to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the remedies sought.
  38. [S102] B’nai Brith Canada. “Ryerson students walk out on Holocaust education motion” (November 2016). https://www.bnaibrith.ca/ryerson_students_walk_out_on_holocaust_education_motion/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the walkout of November 2016 and the board’s adoption of the motion on 19 December 2016.
  39. [S103] Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Jews targeted once again at University of Toronto (SCSU BDS motion)” (January 2020). https://www.fswc.ca/news/jews-targeted-once-again-at-university-of-toronto [archive: none located]. Establishes the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union motion of 22 January 2020.
  40. [S112] UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. “University of Toronto students fight back against BDS” (undated). https://www.jewishtoronto.com/news-media/university-of-toronto-students-fight-back-against-bds [archive: none located]. Establishes the UTSU board vote of 28 July 2015 rejecting a BDS exploratory committee, 17 to 7 with 2 abstentions, taken by secret ballot.
  41. [S121] Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). “The UCU May 2007 Boycott Resolution and its Aftermath” (undated). https://jcpa.org/article/the-ucu-may-2007-boycott-resolution-and-its-aftermath/ [archive: none located]. Establishes secondary reporting of the Naylor letter of June 2007; it is the source of the unverified 20 June date, which this page does not use.
  42. [S122] Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs (JCFA). “The University of Toronto - the institution where Israel Apartheid Week was born” (undated). https://jcfa.org/article/the-university-of-toronto-the-institution-where-israel-apartheid-week-was-born/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the 2005 origin of Israeli Apartheid Week at the University of Toronto.
  43. [S124] United with Israel. “Major Canadian labor union adopts anti-Israel boycott agenda (Unifor 2017)” (2017). https://unitedwithisrael.org/major-canadian-labor-union-adopts-anti-israel-boycott-agenda/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the Unifor resolution of 2017.
  44. [S126] Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). “The BDS call (9 July 2005)” (9 July 2005). https://bdsmovement.net/bds-call [archive: none located]. Establishes the date, signatories and three demands of the 2005 call.
  45. [S130] PACBI / BNC. “PACBI (academic and cultural boycott arm) page” (undated). https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi [archive: none located]. Establishes PACBI’s founding on 6 April 2004.
  46. [S132] PACBI / BNC. “Debating BDS: On Normalization and Partial Boycotts” (31 March 2012). https://bdsmovement.net/news/debating-bds-normalization-and-partial-boycotts [archive: none located]. Establishes PACBI’s rejection of settlement-only boycotts.
  47. [S136] Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). “Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) page” (undated). https://bdsmovement.net/iaw [archive: none located]. Establishes the February 2005 origin of Israeli Apartheid Week.
  48. [S142] Canadian BDS Coalition (with Just Peace Advocates). “Canadian BDS Coalition & International BDS Allies - homepage” (undated). https://bdscoalition.ca/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the Coalition’s current name.
  49. [S151] Canadian BDS Coalition / Just Peace Advocates. “Divestment report exposes Canadian financial institutions’ ties” (17 April 2026). https://bdscoalition.ca/2026/04/17/divestment-report-exposes-canadian-financial-institutions-ties/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the April 2026 divestment report and its claims.
  50. [S152] Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME). “Who supports BDS in Canada? (register of endorsers)” (undated). https://www.cjpme.org/who_supports_bds [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260106023721/https://www.cjpme.org/who_supports_bds]. Establishes the register of institutional endorsers and the dates it gives, including April 2013 for the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union.
  51. [S155] CUPE Ontario. “CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee statement on anti-BDS motion passed at Ontario Legislature” (December 2016). https://cupe.on.ca/international-solidarity-committee-statement-anti-bds-motion-passed-ontario-legislature/ [archive: none located]. Establishes CUPE Ontario’s 2006 resolution and its response to the Ontario motion.
  52. [S157] Electronic Intifada (Nora Barrows-Friedman). “University of Toronto graduate students endorse BDS call” (10 December 2012). https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/university-toronto-graduate-students-endorse-bds-call-administration [archive: none located]. Establishes the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union vote of 10 December 2012.
  53. [S163] The Varsity. “UTSU approves motion to divest from firms complicit in occupation of Palestinian territory” (21 February 2022). https://thevarsity.ca/2022/02/21/utsu-approves-motion-to-divest-from-firms-complicit-in-occupation-of-palestinian-territory/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the date and conduct of the meeting of 16 February 2022 and that the article reports no vote tally.
  54. [S164] Algemeiner. “Jewish groups, students denounce University of Toronto student union’s BDS endorsement” (17 February 2022). https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/02/17/hold-jewish-groups-students-denounce-university-of-toronto-student-unions-bds-endorsement/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260121232532/https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/02/17/hold-jewish-groups-students-denounce-university-of-toronto-student-unions-bds-endorsement/]. Establishes one of the two competing press figures, 299 to 243.
  55. [S165] The Varsity. “Ontario bill targeting BDS movement voted down” (12 June 2016). https://thevarsity.ca/2016/06/12/ontario-bill-targeting-bds-movement-voted-down/ [archive: none located]. Establishes contemporaneous press coverage of the defeat of Bill 202.
  56. [S166] The Canadian Jewish News. “Ontario passes motion rejecting BDS campaign against Israel” (December 2016). https://thecjn.ca/news/ontario-passes-motion-rejecting-bds-campaign-against-israel/ [archive: none located]. Establishes contemporaneous press coverage of the 49–5 vote on Motion 36.
  57. [S169] CBC News. “Toronto city council passes bubble zone bylaw to limit protests around vulnerable institutions” (22 May 2025). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-bubble-zone-protest-bylaw-1.7540321 [archive: none located]. Establishes contemporaneous press coverage of the council vote and the by-law.
  58. [S170] Michael Geist (blog). “Court issues injunction against U of T encampment on trespass grounds; some exterior speech rises to hate speech” (July 2024). https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/07/court-issues-injunction-against-university-of-toronto-encampment-on-trespass-grounds-finds-no-doubt-that-some-of-the-speech-on-the-exterior-of-the-encampment-rises-to-the-level-of-hate-speec/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the court’s findings on speech at the encampment’s exterior.
  59. [S171] CBC News. “Decision on University of Toronto injunction application (encampment)” (2 July 2024). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/decision-university-toronto-injunction-encampment-1.7252343 [archive: none located]. Establishes the date of the injunction and the clearing of the encampment.
  60. [S172] Inside Higher Ed. “AAUP ends two-decade opposition to academic boycotts” (12 August 2024). https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2024/08/12/aaup-ends-two-decade-opposition-academic-boycotts [archive: none located]. Establishes the American Association of University Professors’ reversal of 12 August 2024.
  61. [S175] The Canadian Jewish News. “Mamdouh Shoukri, president, says York University committed to inclusion” (21 April 2016). https://thecjn.ca/news/mamdouh-shoukri-president-says-york-university-committed-to-inclusion/ [archive: none located]. Establishes York University’s stated policy on BDS and divestment in April 2016.
  62. [S176] The Canadian Jewish News. “Jewish groups dispute claims of BDS victories at Air Canada and York University” (10 November 2017). https://thecjn.ca/news/jewish-groups-dispute-claims-bds-victories-air-canada-york-university/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the Canadian Jewish News report of 10 November 2017, the date of the faculty council vote and the additional abstention.
  63. [S177] Times of Israel. “Ryerson University student union votes to join BDS” (April 2014). https://www.timesofisrael.com/ryerson-university-student-union-votes-to-join-bds/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the Ryerson Students’ Union vote of 2 April 2014 and the university president’s response.
  64. [S178] CBC News. “Protest and arrests at TMU event (SSI event with IDF veterans)” (November 2025). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protest-tmu-arrests-toronto-9.6968887 [archive: none located]. Establishes the events and arrests of 19 September and 5 November 2025.
  65. [S187] The Canadian Jewish News. “Full text of Justin Trudeau’s St. Louis apology” (November 2018). https://thecjn.ca/uncategorized/full-text-of-justin-trudeaus-st-louis-apology/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the text of the MS St. Louis apology passage.
  66. [S190] rabble.ca (sympathetic outlet; used for facts only). “York Federation of Students passes divestment resolution against Israel” (March 2013). https://rabble.ca/education/york-federation-students-pass-divestment-resolution-against-isra/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the York Federation of Students vote of 21 March 2013.
  67. [S192] CBC News. “Montreal city council adopts amended Palestinian-solidarity motion” (24 August 2026). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-motion-solidarity-with-palestinians-9.7319256 [archive: none located]. Establishes the Montreal City Council vote of 24 August 2026 and the amendments made before it passed.
  68. [S194] Global News. “$15-million class action lawsuit against York University and student union” (October 2023). https://globalnews.ca/news/10048960/15-million-class-action-lawsuit-york-university-student-union/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the filing of the class action against York University and the student federation.
  69. [S195] JNS. “Ontario strengthens enforcement of campus Jew-hatred law (Bill 166 directive)” (18 September 2026). https://www.jns.org/news/world/ontario-strengthens-enforcement-of-campus-jew-hatred-law [archive: none located]. Establishes press coverage of the revised directive; note that this page uses the ministry’s own date of 10 September 2026 rather than the date in this report.
  70. [S199] Federal Court of Appeal (Noel C.J., Boivin and Rivoalen JJ.A.). “Canada (Attorney General) v. Kattenburg, 2021 FCA 86” (5 May 2021). https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fca/doc/2021/2021fca86/2021fca86.html [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20231121113101/https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fca/doc/2021/2021fca86/2021fca86.html]. Establishes the merits outcome of the Kattenburg appeal: the appeal dismissed, the matter remitted to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Agency not bound by the Federal Court’s reasons.
  71. [S201] Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Open Government portal). “Question Period Note: Labelling of Wines and Other Food from Contested Territories Sold in Canada” (22 January 2024). https://search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/aafc-aac%2CAAFC-2025-QP-00052 [archive: none located]. Establishes the substance of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s 2022 redetermination, which is not published on any government site.
  72. [S053] Toronto Police Service, Intelligence Services - Hate Crime Unit. “Toronto Police Service 2025 Annual Hate Crime Statistical Report (Police Services Board public agenda, 14 May 2026)” (presented to the Police Services Board 14 May 2026). https://tpsb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Public-Agenda-May-14-2026.pdf [archive: none located]. Establishes the 2025 Toronto figures, the restated 2024 baseline of 462 occurrences and 180 anti-Jewish occurrences, and the statement that none of the 231 occurrences happened during a protest.
  73. [S210] University of Toronto, Governing Council. “Minutes of the Governing Council, 25 June 2007, item 3(d): Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities and Scholars” (25 June 2007). https://governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/system/files/import-files/r1017iii4050.pdf [archive: none located]. Establishes what the Governing Council was told about the Naylor letter on 25 June 2007 and that the letter itself is not published.
  74. [S211] University of Toronto Students’ Union. “Statement RE: Implications of the Member-submitted Motion at the 2022 Special General Meeting” (17 February 2022). https://www.utsu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Statement-RE-Implications-of-the-Member-submitted-Motion-at-the-2022-Special-General-Meeting.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20241110002651/https://www.utsu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Statement-RE-Implications-of-the-Member-submitted-Motion-at-the-2022-Special-General-Meeting.pdf]. Establishes the union’s own account of the meeting of 16 February 2022, the motion text, and the absence of any published tally.
  75. [S220] Jerusalem Post. “University of Toronto Student Union adopts BDS motion” (17 February 2022). https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-696869 [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260211230853/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-696869]. Establishes the origin of the competing press figure of 299 to 143.
  76. [S223] Canadian BDS Coalition. “About us” (undated). https://bdscoalition.ca/about-us/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260824162611/https://bdscoalition.ca/about-us/]. Establishes the Coalition’s inaugural meeting of April 2016 and the reason it gives for choosing its name.
  77. [S227] The Eyeopener (Toronto Metropolitan University). “Toronto student activists organize pro-Palestine community sit-in at TMU” (1 May 2024). https://theeyeopener.com/2024/05/toronto-student-activists-organize-pro-palestine-community-sit-in-at-tmu/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260420033302/https://theeyeopener.com/2024/05/toronto-student-activists-organize-pro-palestine-community-sit-in-at-tmu/]. Establishes the date, hours, outdoor location, organizers and itemized demands of the Toronto Metropolitan University sit-in.
  78. [S236] Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO). “OPSEU/SEFPO statement on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign” (26 July 2024). https://opseu.org/news/opseu-sefpo-statement-on-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-bds-campaign/239873/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260208215542/https://opseu.org/news/opseu-sefpo-statement-on-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-bds-campaign/239873/]. Establishes that the union’s BDS resolution was passed by its Executive Board as unfinished convention business rather than adopted at the convention.
  79. [S237] Toronto Police Service (Intelligence Services, case 2023-2603077). “Arrests Made in Hate-Motivated Mischief Investigation, Bay Street and Bloor Street West area - Update: Additional Charges Laid” (30 November 2023). https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/arrests-made-in-hate-motivated-mischief-investigat/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20231217101007/https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/arrests-made-in-hate-motivated-mischief-investigat/]. Establishes the date and circumstances of the Indigo incident, the police case number 2023-2603077, and the arrests and charges of November 2023. The live URL has been removed from the Toronto Police Service site and returns a 404, so the archived copy is the working link.
  80. [S238] CBC News. “Crown drops charges against 4 accused in Indigo bookstore vandalism” (22 May 2024). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/indigo-bookstore-vandalism-alleged-hate-crimes-1.7210951 [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260812012236/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/indigo-bookstore-vandalism-alleged-hate-crimes-1.7210951]. Establishes the withdrawal of charges against four accused on 17 May 2024.
  81. [S239] CBC News / The Canadian Press. “Charges dropped for 3 more people accused in Indigo bookstore vandalism: lawyer” (27 March 2025, updated 28 March 2025). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/indigo-11-charges-dropped-1.7495718 [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20250410104018/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/indigo-11-charges-dropped-1.7495718]. Establishes the withdrawal of three further charges on 27 March 2025, the four guilty pleas, the two absolute discharges and the damage figure.
  82. [S202] The United Church of Canada. “Historical timeline of The United Church of Canada” (undated). https://united-church.ca/community-and-faith/welcome-united-church-canada/history-united-church-canada/historical-timeline [archive: none located]. Establishes that the Unsettling Goods campaign launched in 2013, distinct from the policy adopted in August 2012.
  83. [S204] The Canadian Jewish News. “United Church strengthens call to end Israeli occupation” (12 August 2015). https://thecjn.ca/news/canada/united-church-strengthens-call-end-israeli-occupation/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the 42nd General Council’s decisions of 11 August 2015, that the church treated the resolution as advocacy rather than binding direction, and that the council rejected ending support for a two-state solution.
  84. [S207] Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. “Minister’s directive on anti-racism and anti-hate for publicly assisted colleges and universities” (revised September 2026, page updated 10 September 2026). https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministers-directive-anti-racism-and-anti-hate-publicly-assisted-colleges-and-universities [archive: none located]. Establishes the revised directive’s date of 10 September 2026, the directive it replaces, and the funding-reduction power.
  85. [S244] York University, News@York; statement from President Rhonda L. Lenton. “York University responds to false claims regarding the Faculty of Environmental Studies” (6 November 2017). https://news.yorku.ca/2017/11/06/york-university-responds-false-claims-regarding-faculty-environmental-studies/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20250714031324/https://news.yorku.ca/2017/11/06/york-university-responds-false-claims-regarding-faculty-environmental-studies/]. Establishes President Lenton’s statement of 6 November 2017 and York’s position on academic boycotts.
  86. [S240] The Canadian Jewish News. “Pride Toronto defeats motion to adopt BDS-aligned sponsorship policy” (30 January 2026). https://thecjn.ca/news/pride-toronto-defeats-motion-to-adopt-bds-aligned-sponsorship-policy/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the Pride Toronto annual general meeting vote of 29 January 2026 and the board’s recommendation.
  87. [S228] McGill University Senate; answered by Provost Christopher Manfredi. “Question and response regarding the MAUT resolution endorsing a boycott of Israeli institutions (Senate document D25-17)” (12 November 2025). https://www.mcgill.ca/senate/files/senate/d25-17_question_and_response_regarding_the_maut_resolution_endorsing_a_boycott_of_israeli_institutions.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260915025819/https://www.mcgill.ca/senate/files/senate/d25-17_question_and_response_regarding_the_maut_resolution_endorsing_a_boycott_of_israeli_institutions.pdf]. Establishes the McGill Association of University Teachers vote of 10 October 2025, its tally, and McGill’s response.
  88. [S241] The Canadian Jewish News. “McGill law students referendum on Israel triggers legal challenge and university intervention” (27 March 2026). https://thecjn.ca/news/mcgill-law-students-referendum-on-israel-triggers-legal-challenge-and-university-intervention/ [archive: none located]. Establishes the McGill Law Students’ Association referendum result, the president’s declaration that the amendments were inoperative, and the dismissal of the injunction application on 27 March 2026.
  89. [S215] University of Toronto Faculty Association. “Results of May 8th General Membership Meeting and Vote” (posted 13 May 2025). https://www.utfa.org/content/results-may-8th-general-membership-meeting-and-vote [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20251206062905/https://www.utfa.org/content/results-may-8th-general-membership-meeting-and-vote]. Establishes the University of Toronto Faculty Association vote of 8 May 2025 and its exact tally.
  90. [S229] York University Faculty Association. “YUFA’s Fall General Membership Meeting (GMM)” (meeting of 19 November 2024). https://www.yufa.ca/yufa_s_fall_general_membership_meeting_gmm [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260513132529/https://www.yufa.ca/yufa_s_fall_general_membership_meeting_gmm]. Establishes the York University Faculty Association motion of 19 November 2024 and that no tally was published.
  91. [S230] OCAD University Faculty Association. “Call for Disclosure, Divestment, Responsible Investment, and Support for Palestinian Scholars and Students” (letter dated 30 May 2024). https://ocadfa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/OCADFA-Call-for-Disclosure-Divestment-Responsible-Investment-and-Support-for-Palestinian-Scholars-and-Students.pdf [archive: none located]. Establishes the OCAD University Faculty Association motion of 27 May 2024 and the letter of 30 May 2024.
  92. [S217] City of Toronto (Toronto Meeting Management Information System). “City Council item 2025.CC30.5: Proposed By-law Amendment to Provide Access to Social Infrastructure” (vote of 22 May 2025). https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.CC30.5 [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260115044726/https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.CC30.5]. Establishes the 16–9 council vote of 22 May 2025 adopting the by-law item.
  93. [S235] Legislative Assembly of Ontario (41st Parliament, 1st Session). “Votes and Proceedings, 19 May 2016: second reading of Bill 202 lost on division” (19 May 2016). https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/house-documents/parliament-41/session-1/2016-05-19/votes-proceedings [archive: none located]. Establishes the recorded division on Bill 202: 18 ayes and 39 nays.
  94. [S245] Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO). “Résolutions / Resolutions G,” Convention 2024, Section G, 58 pages (April 2024). https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Section-G-Resolutions-en.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20250809230008/https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Section-G-Resolutions-en.pdf]. Establishes that the measure is Resolution I1 under “World Issues” at page 31, the locals and committees that submitted it, and its single resolving clause committing the union to actively support the international BDS campaign. The live URL has been removed and returns a 404.
  95. [S246] Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO). “General Information and Agenda,” Convention 2024, Section A (April 2024). https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Section-A-General-Information-and-Agenda-c.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20240519090459/https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Section-A-General-Information-and-Agenda-c.pdf]. Establishes that the 2024 convention ran from 24 to 27 April 2024 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and that resolutions were submitted by the deadline of 11 March 2024. The live URL has been removed and returns a 404.
  96. [S247] Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO). “Résolutions / Resolutions G,” Convention 2026, Section G, 75 pages, submission deadline 6 February 2026. https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/Section-G-Resolutions-a.pdf [archive: none located]. Establishes, in the union’s own convention document, that delegates to the 2025 convention rejected a resolution targeting Israel exclusively, that the 2024 commitment was made by the Executive Board, and that a resolution to withdraw from BDS had been submitted to the 2026 convention but not carried.
  97. [S248] Toronto Metropolitan University. “Ensuring a safe environment for all” (30 April 2024). https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2024/04/ensuring-a-safe-environment-for-all/ [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260415095331/https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2024/04/ensuring-a-safe-environment-for-all/]. Establishes the university’s own statement of the same day on lawful assembly, peaceful protest and activities that pose a risk to the campus or its members.
  98. [S249] Pride Toronto. “Attachment A. Member Proposal (ONCA s.56) to Pride Toronto” (27 November 2025). https://www.pridetoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Attachment-A-%E2%80%94-Member-Proposal-ONCA-s.56.pdf [archive: none located]. Establishes the text of the proposal put to the members, including clause 2 on the boycott guidelines and clause 4 reaching vendor registrations and parade entries.
  99. [S250] Pride Toronto. “Notice of an Annual and Special Meeting of the Members of Pride Toronto,” signed by Maria Diaz, Secretary (16 January 2026). https://www.pridetoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a_319063684_v1_Pride-Toronto-Compiled-Notice-of-Meeting-January-29-2026.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260130001957/https://www.pridetoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a_319063684_v1_Pride-Toronto-Compiled-Notice-of-Meeting-January-29-2026.pdf]. Establishes that the meeting was held electronically on 29 January 2026, that the member proposal was agenda item 7, and the board’s written position urging members to vote against it.
  100. [S251] The United Church of Canada. “Unsettling Goods Q&A,” 7 pages, 2016 revision (PDF created 15 April 2016). https://united-church.ca/sites/default/files/unsettling-goods-faq.pdf [archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20221123171747/https://united-church.ca/sites/default/files/unsettling-goods-faq.pdf]. Establishes, in the church’s own words, that the campaign is not a boycott of Israel or of Israeli goods, and reproduces the 42nd General Council’s 2015 text in full. The live URL has been removed and returns a 404.

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