University agrees to divestment deal with campus protesters

An Ontario university is the first major educational institution in Canada to reach an agreement with on-campus protesters and vows not to invest in companies benefiting from the war in Gaza, writes Miriam Katawazi for CTV News.

Administrators and encampment organisers at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa said on Monday 20 May that they had reached an agreement, bringing the campus protests against investments connected to Israel’s military to an end.

“We worked with students to address their humanitarian support requests and subsequently reached an agreement. The encampment will be dismantled on May 20, 2024,” the university said in a statement. “We were able to reach an agreement with our students by establishing a Presidential Advisory Committee, primarily composed of diverse students, to explore the development of responsible investment practices.”
Full report on the CP24 site