RBC Tightens Security as Protesters Rally Outside Annual Meeting

Royal Bank of Canada’s annual shareholder meeting was dominated by questions about its financing of fossil-fuel businesses as dozens of protesters rallied outside the gathering.

The meeting on Thursday featured ramped-up security and strictly enforced rules — including a limit of 60 seconds of speaking time per questioner — and was convened at a conference center in suburban Toronto rather than in the city’s downtown core, where it has been held in the past.

A delegation of Indigenous and climate activists, many of whom traveled from across Canada and parts of the US to attend the event and ...