The Divest Podcast

Join Petra and Sophie in talking to founding member of Climate Justice (Justice Climatique) UOttawa Mary Stuart about the University's recent decision to divest.  Find Climate Justice UOttawa at @cjcuottawa on Facebook and Instagram, and @CUottawa on Twitter. 

Join us in talking to Brennan Strandberg-Salmon about SFU's recent decision to divest, and where SFU350 is going from here. Learn more about SFU350 at sfu350.com, or find them on social media @sfu350 on Twitter and Instagram and SFU 350 on Facebook. 

Join Petra in talking to Zahur Ashrafuzzaman about the state of divestment at McGill University and Divest McGill's recent push to democratize the Board of Governors.  Relevant links for Divest for Human Rights McGill can be found at https://linktr.ee/dhrmcgill, and Divest McGill can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. 

Join Sophie and Petra in interviewing Julia DaSilva about the University of Toronto's recent decision to divest from fossil fuels, and the tireless work from Leap UofT and other student organizations that led to it.

Sophie and Petra talk to Tony Beck, BC-based climate activist and founder of Oil Sands Divestment, an educational website on divestment from the Alberta oil sands and how we can achieve it.  You can find more information at oilsandsdivest.com, or on social media at Oil Sands Divestment on Facebook, @oilsandsdivest on Instagram, and @ODivestment on Twitter. 

Join Sophie and Petra in talking to Fossil Free UW member Guy Brodsky about the University of Waterloo's recent decision to decarbonize investments and divest their funds from fossil fuels.  Guy can be found on Twitter at @guyinenv, and Fossil Free UW on Twitter and Instagram at @fossilfreeuw as well as at their website fossilfreeuw.ca.

Hey folks! The Divest Podcast will be taking a break over the summer, but we'll be back with more news and updates in September- so stay tuned and we'll see you then! 

Sophie unfortunately couldn't make it this week, so join Petra in talking with Kenzie Harris about the Banking on a Better Future Campaign, asking youth to pledge to move their funds from the big 5 - BMO, CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank and TD - to a more ethical credit union to protest big bank financing of fossil fuel projects. Learn more at bankingonabetterfuture.org. This episode was sponsored by Fridays for Future Toronto and the Climate Pledge Collective. Check out the Bank Switch pledge at climatepledgecollective.org/bankswitch/.

Join us in talking with Mymoon Bhuiyan about the divestment movement at McMaster University and what's in store for them now that McMaster President David Farrar has endorsed divestment. As a note, going forward the Divest Podcast will be released on the first of the month, every month. Happy listening!

Welcome to our first episode!  This episode is very laid back. We introduce ourselves and tell you a little bit about what this podcast is all about!  After recording, University of Victoria voted to partially divest their capital fund, joining the list of Universities and Colleges across Canada who have committed to full or partial divestment. Woo-hoo! 🎉