A lawn sign campaign spreading across Canada. One sign in your yard. A visible, public statement that you are not looking away. It started on Gabriola Island, BC. It can happen where you live too.
Every pin is a community that has taken a stand. Click a pin to see details. Start the next one.
Because Canada is not a bystander. Canada claims to have an arms embargo on regimes carrying out genocide. It doesn't. Canadian weapons components, F-35 fighter jet parts, explosives, bullets, continue flowing through a legal loophole that routes them through the United States first. Once they cross the border, Canada claims no responsibility for where they go. The bombs dropping on Gaza and elsewhere have Canadian parts in them. Your tax dollars paid for some of what is killing people right now.
The Canadian government knows this. On March 11, 2026, Parliament voted on Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act, introduced by NDP MP Jenny Kwan, which would have closed the loophole and required human rights assessments on all military exports. It was voted down 295 to 22. The Carney government killed it.
Canada votes at the United Nations, where its votes carry weight. And Canada maintains full diplomatic relations with genocidal regimes today, relations that signal acceptance, not opposition.
On May 15, 2026, almost 200 former senior Canadian diplomats wrote to Prime Minister Carney urging "robust" sanctions on Israel, citing the blockade of Gaza, the high civilian death toll in Lebanon, and Israel's ongoing destruction of civilian infrastructure. They called for a review of Canada's trade agreement with Israel. Their letter noted that "without robust international sanctions the Israeli government will persist in disregarding international law."
In two separate attacks on unarmed civilian vessels in international waters, Israeli naval commandos kidnapped 428 international citizens from 48 countries. The first attack came on April 29, 2026, off the coast of Crete, where Israeli forces boarded 21 vessels and abducted 181 participants, injuring at least 35 people with rubber bullets and physical violence. The second attack came on May 18–19, 2026, near Cyprus, where Israel seized all remaining vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Survivors reported a coordinated campaign of torture, physical and sexual violence. Prime Minister Carney called Israel's treatment of detained citizens "abominable" and summoned the Israeli ambassador to Ottawa. All 428 were eventually released.
I am a human being who lives on a small island off the coast of British Columbia. I'm not an organization, not a politician, not an activist by training. I'm someone who looks at what is happening and cannot look away. I believe most Canadians are the same, that underneath the noise and the politics and the distance, we are people who care. Who feel. Who know the difference between right and wrong. This campaign is built on that belief.
A sign in your yard won't stop a bomb. But silence is also a statement. Communities across Canada putting up Stop Genocide signs says that people here are paying attention, that we are not looking away, and that we expect better from our country.
Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a people, through mass killing, starvation, displacement, or the systematic destruction of the conditions necessary for survival. It is defined in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, which Canada has signed, as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
The International Court of Justice has ruled there is a plausible case that genocide is being committed in Gaza. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and dozens of legal scholars have reached the same conclusion. As of June 2026, Genocide Watch lists Gaza, Sudan, the DRC, Myanmar, and Rojava in northern Syria as active Genocide Emergencies.
The following scholars, legal experts, and organizations have all concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, including prominent Israeli historians and Holocaust scholars:
When we say STOP GENOCIDE, we mean this. Not a metaphor. Not hyperbole. This.
That's why Canada.
This started on Gabriola Island with one sign and a dog walk. It can happen anywhere. Here's everything you need.
Download the sign file, open it in Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape (free), and change the URL to your community's domain. Order polybag signs from zooprint.com. Minimum order is 50 signs.
Download Print File (PDF)Polybag signs from zooprint.com start at 50 signs and come in under $5 CAD each with shipping at 200+. For comparison, coroplast signs printed locally run about $41.75 CAD each. Some people will pay. Some won't be able to. You decide.
Door to door is the key driver. Ask people you know first, then walk your street. Deliver personally, it makes a difference. Let neighbours ask neighbours. Don't force it. The sign only works if the person putting it up means it.
Get a localized domain for your community, something like nanaimostandsup.ca or victoriastandsup.ca. Put it on the sign. It anchors the campaign locally and gives people somewhere to go.
Ask for a signature before you ask for a sign. Almost everyone will sign something private. Once they've agreed out loud to the principle, the sign question gets easier. Details below.
Register your community below. We'll add you to the map, list your signs, and link your site. The more visible the campaign is nationally, the stronger it gets everywhere.
The pace is mine to set, and right now one sign a day is exactly where I want it. People sometimes ask why I'm not knocking on fifty doors at once. I'm not trying to blanket this island overnight. I'm building something that holds, one real conversation, one person at a time, and that takes the time it takes.
The real goal is 1,250 signs across Gabriola, and I can't knock on that many doors myself, not at this pace, maybe not at any pace. So a lot of the time went into thinking through two problems at once. The no's, the people who agreed with everything but still wouldn't put up a sign. And something bigger than the no's: an apathetic public that needs a constant visual reminder of what is taking place with their money and their consent. That's where the petition came from.
A lawn sign asks for public visibility. That's a real barrier for a lot of people who quietly agree with everything you're saying. A petition doesn't ask for that. It's private, it's familiar, and almost nobody says no to signing something they actually believe.
So ask for the signature first. Once someone has just agreed out loud, in writing, that the killing of innocent people has to stop, the next question, "would you also put up a sign," gets easier to say yes to. It's the same door, the same person, the same minute. You're not choosing between two asks. You're sequencing them.
This also means every door that already said no to a sign is worth a second visit. Lead with the petition this time, not the sign.
Ask everyone who signs to do one more thing: get 10 friends or neighbours to sign too. A petition multiplies the way a sign never can, because nobody has to see it on your lawn to say yes.
Some people have asked why the petition is worded so broadly, why it doesn't name a specific policy, a specific sanction, a specific trade decision. That's deliberate. The petition isn't asking anyone to agree on tariffs, alliances, or foreign policy. It's asking whether we, as a community, agree on one thing: that killing innocent people has to stop, and our representatives should use whatever tools they actually have to work toward that. People who'd disagree completely on the specifics can still agree on that one sentence. That's what makes it signable by almost everyone, and that's the point. The specific actions come after, for anyone who wants to go further. See Next Steps below.
I saw an interview with a man in Gaza. The host asked him: what can we in the west do? He said: speak. Speak for us. Speak soon, before we all suffer and die in silence. That's what the sign does. Nothing more. It speaks. The petition is the first step toward saying yes to that.
Use this as a starting template. Update the names of your own MP and MLA before you print it.
If someone has already signed the general petition or put up a sign, they've told us, in writing or on their lawn, that they don't want to live in a society that endorses or endures the killing of innocent people. This section is for the next thing they can do with that yes. It will grow over time. Here is the first one.
A 2026 report found CPP Investments, the organization that manages the Canada Pension Plan that every working Canadian pays into, increased its holdings in companies tied to Israel's occupation and military campaign by more than 23 billion dollars in a single year, nearly doubling its exposure to 54.8 billion dollars. If you pay into the Canada Pension Plan, some of your own retirement savings may be funding part of what you already said no to. Source: The Maple, citing a Just Peace Advocates report, June 2026.
This petition asks CPP Investments to divest from companies credibly identified as complicit in war crimes, genocide, or apartheid, and to disclose publicly which holdings meet that standard.
A localized sign with your community's name on it. A localized domain pointing to your campaign. Door to door delivery. That's the model.
We started the STOP GENOCIDE campaign on April 14th, 2026. There are now 80 signs across Gabriola Island. It can happen where you live too.
TOGETHER WE CAN DO THIS.
Tell us where you are, how many signs you have up, and how to reach you. We'll add you to the map and connect you with the campaign.
Questions? Email gabriolastandsup@gmail.com
The campaign started on Gabriola Island, BC by Alex Strachan. Visit gabriolastandsup.ca to see how it works.