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BC public sector pension members seeking more ethical investments.🌱🌎 Led successful fight to divest $450M from Russia in 2022. Now calling for exit from fossil fuels, tobacco and Putin enablers. https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/chair_test/
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Hey BCI + BC Public Sector Pensions Plans! In March 2022 you agreed to divest👇 from Russian firms. How about taking the next step and dropping the awful Western firms that continue business in/with 🇷🇺? Their taxes + tech fuel the Kremlin’s genocidal war on 🇺🇦! For example… 🧵 www.bci.ca/bci-is-activ...
BCI is Actively Working to Sell Remaining Russian Securities
BCI takes action to sell remaining Russian securities, prioritizing commitment to responsible investment and fiduciary duty
www.bci.ca
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…and after those “successes”, fascist Russia is clearly looking to weaken and divide another major democracy - Canada.
And like Brexit, a referendum in Alberta seems particularly ripe for Russian meddling to undermine 🇨🇦. Especially with so many credulous conservatives already lapping up disinfo. Fascist Russia is already at war with Western democracies and this is a golden opportunity from Putin’s point of view.
Indeed. And seems entirely likely that fascist Russia is fuelling this Alberta separatist BS behind the scenes to weaken Canada. (Just like Brexit, Trump, convoy, etc.) Smith has a history of mainlining 🇷🇺 disinfo👇 and loves Putin apologists like Peterson. She + Alberta Cons = ultimate useful idiots.
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Ukraine is fighting fascist Russia on behalf of Canada + the other remaining democracies. The very least we could do is impose airtight sanctions to crush the Kremlin’s revenue. Note the Vancouver connection👇
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists
Fascist 🇷🇺 depends on fossil exports for its survival and to pay for its barbarous war against our ally 🇺🇦. And it relies on 6 special LNG tanker ships managed by Seapeak Maritime (Glasgow), which are co-owned by Seapeak LLC, with HQ in VANCOUVER !!!
Razom We Stand, along with 40 Ukrainian & international NGOs, urges the EU & UK to impose coordinated #sanctions on all 15 Arc7 LNG tankers enabling Russia’s Yamal LNG exports.

Read the full letter - bit.ly/OpenLetterAr...
December 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Well said. Canada and the other remaining democracies need to wake up to the threat from fascist Russia before it’s too late.
Ukraine is fighting fascist Russia on behalf of Canada + the other remaining democracies. The very least we could do is impose airtight sanctions to crush the Kremlin’s revenue. Note the Vancouver connection👇
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists
Fascist 🇷🇺 depends on fossil exports for its survival and to pay for its barbarous war against our ally 🇺🇦. And it relies on 6 special LNG tanker ships managed by Seapeak Maritime (Glasgow), which are co-owned by Seapeak LLC, with HQ in VANCOUVER !!!
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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…and the IDF (to assist its “war-related missions”).❄️ Two Palantir founders, Chair Peter Thiel + CEO Alex Karp, support Trump’s regime (PT mentored + backed Vance for VP).🛷 Both have scary views at odds with human rights.🎄 Our pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy.☃️
Palantir: the world’s ‘scariest company’? – podcast
How far will tech firm Palantir go to ‘save the West’? With Michael Steinberger and Johana Bhuiyan
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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December 25: BCI has ~$48.88M in Palantir Technologies Inc, the US tech giant whose AI-powered data-analysis is used by the Gestapo/ICE.🎄 In 2025 it won a $30M contract to build a platform to “streamline” immigrant identification + deportation.🔔 Other clients include the Pentagon, police depts, …
Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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December 24: BCI has ~$16.25M in Schlumberger NV (SLB), the world’s biggest oilfield services firm.🎄 It’s no exaggeration to say that SLB tech + expertise keeps fascist Russia‘s oil flowing; the Kremlin depends on this to bankroll its survival and genocidal war on our ally 🇺🇦. Investors = enablers.❄️
U.S. Oilfield Giant SLB Still Profits from Russia Despite Sanctions – Dallas
Exclusive documents reveal that SLB (formerly Schlumberger) continues oil technology operations in Russia despite Western sanctions and public denials.
dallas-park.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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December 23: BCI has ~$11.51M in Valero Energy Corp,🎁 the Texas-based owner of 15 oil refineries (in Canada/US/UK) with 3.2M bpd throughput capacity.🧑‍🎄 The world’s #2 maker of corn ethanol and “renewable diesel”, its joint venture to make jet fuel at a Port Arthur refinery doesn‘t sound very green.🤢
How a Texas refinery turns Amazon-destroying cattle into ‘green’ jet fuel
A Texas refinery supplying green fuel to U.S. airlines has been purchasing animal fat from cattle raised on illegally cleared lands in the Amazon rainforest.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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December 22: BCI has ~$45.80 in Suncor Energy Inc, the tar sands giant.🔔 It‘s also an offshore oil producer, owns Petro-Canada, and is a member of the support group for greenwashers, Pathways Alliance. 🛷 Suncor sold off its wind + solar assets in 2022 and remains one of Canada’s biggest emitters.🎄
The impacts of climate change are downright frightening. But the villain behind one of Canada’s biggest tar sands companies can also cause a real jump-scare. Introducing Rich Kruger - the nightmare on...
The impacts of climate change are downright frightening. But the villain behind one of Canada’s biggest tar sands companies can also cause a real jump-scare. Introducing Rich Kruger - the nightmare on...
environmentaldefence.ca
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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December 21: BCI has ~$503.47M in Meta Platforms Inc, the US tech firm that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp + Messenger.❄️ By prioritizing ‘user engagement’, Meta’s algorithms have fuelled misinformation and violence around 🌏. Ominously, CEO + controlling shareholder MZ is now aligned with Trump.🎁
Meta’s new content policies risk fueling more mass violence and genocide
Recent content policy changes by Meta pose a grave threat to vulnerable communities globally and drastically increase the risk of violence.
www.amnesty.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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December 20: BCI has ~$143.87M in Exxon Mobil Corp, the largest US fossil firm.🎅 It has a sordid history of denying science, killing climate action, and nuking nature (e.g. Exxon Valdez).🎄 Per Carbon Majors, it‘s the 5th biggest CO2e emitting entity ever. Hooray for BCI’s meaningful ESG principles!☃️
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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December 19: BCI has ~$325.13M in UnitedHealth Group Inc, the US for-PROFIT healthcare firm that sells health insurance + healthcare services.🎁 The world's #7 company by revenue (US$400B in 2024), it has faced various investigations, lawsuits, and fines.❄️ A sickening way to invest our pensions.🛷
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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December 18: BCI owns 26% of Czech Gas Networks Investments, Czechia’s biggest fossil gas distributor, with 2.3M customers + 65,000km of pipeline.☃️ CGNI’s board includes 2 senior BCI execs. And BCI owns several other big gas utilities elsewhere.🛷 We’ll tell our grandkids our pensions were worth it.🎁
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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December 17: BCI has ~$5.30M in PTT PCL, Thailand’s major oil + gas firm (majority state-owned).❄️ PTT is bankrolling Myanmar’s evil junta (currently waging war on civilians) by buying loads of fossil gas from the military-controlled Myanmar Oil + Gas Enterprise (MOGE).🎄Our pensions are complicit.
Myanmar: Junta Evading International Sanctions
The United States, European Union, and other governments should urgently counter illicit activities by foreign banks that are assisting the Myanmar military in evading sanctions imposed after its 2021...
www.hrw.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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December 16: BCI has ~$144.15M in TC Energy Corp, Calgary-based owner of CGL pipeline and almost 100,000km of other fossil firehoses, plus several gas power plants.🔔 TC enjoys very close ties to Trumpworld, and its CEO is advising the criminal regime how to build new fossil infrastructure faster.🎁
TC Energy boss advises U.S. on speeding along oil and gas infrastructure | CBC News
TC Energy's president and CEO led a report examining how the U.S. can build oil and gas infrastructure more quickly, at the same time there's a push to do the same north of the border.
www.cbc.ca
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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December 15: BCI has ~$213.45M in Tesla Inc, the US carmaker with a litany of labour + safety issues.🧑‍🎄 The CEO + 15% owner supports fascists around the world, spews racist filth, and got Trump elected.🎄His DOGE slashed key federal services and axed USAID, which is projected to kill millions.❄️Divest!
Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure
The Tesla CEO once hinted he was done with politics – but he’s been leaning further into the international far right
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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December 14: BCI has ~$78.61M in Chevron Corp, the US fossil giant.🛷Per Carbon Majors, it’s the 4th biggest CO2e emitting entity of all time and “opposes climate regulations + advocates for new fossil fuel infrastructure across the world.“ Surely if we engage Chevron just a bit more it will change!🔔
Carbon Majors: 2023 Data Update
A new briefing analyzing the latest emissions data from the Carbon Majors database.
carbonmajors.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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December 13: BCI has ~$10.49M in Axon Enterprise Inc, the Arizona-based firm formerly known as TASER.🎄 It develops weapons and tech for military, police and civilians, including tasers.🧑‍🎄 Axon is now trialing AI + facial-recognition-enabled bodycams. Will pensions be any use if we retire in 1984?☃️
Edmonton Police Service partners with U.S. company to test use of facial-recognition bodycams | CBC News
The Edmonton Police Service will test the use of bodycams that employ facial recognition, a form of artificial intelligence. Starting Wednesday, up to 50 police officers will use the cameras for the r...
www.cbc.ca
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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December 12: BCI has ~$43.83M in Caterpillar Inc (CAT), the US construction equipment maker.🔔 Pension funds + Norways’s sovereign wealth fund have dropped CAT for its links to Israel’s abuses and crimes in the West Bank + Gaza, including the use of CAT bulldozers to destroy Palestinian property.🎄
Norway wealth fund sells Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations
World’s largest wealth fund says it has excluded bulldozer maker and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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December 11: BCI owns 9% of Thames Water, the troubled utility serving 1/4 of England’s population.☃️Years of bad decisions, and a litany of water leaks, sewage spills, and fines have torpedoed the firm’s finances and the value of BCI’s stake. Thames = THE poster child for privatization’s problems.🎅
Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?
Thames Water's lenders have submitted a new rescue plan to save the firm, but how did it end up in this state?
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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December 10: BCI has ~$65.30M in Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil’s largest firm.🛷 It plans to boost oil output faster than almost every other big producer, hitting a BILLION barrels in 2030 (+32% from 2024).❄️ The small print on your pension statement says “habitable planet not included“.🔔
State oil company ramping up production as Brazil readies for COP30
The state oil company of COP30 host Brazil plans to expand oil production more aggressively than nearly every other major producer this decade
globalwitness.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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December 9: BCI has ~$44.17M in OTP Bank Nyrt, the biggest Budapest-based bank.🎄Among the last foreign banks still in 🇷🇺, in 2024 OTP made $353M profits there and paid Putin $89M in tax.🧑‍🎄 The Chair of this fascist-friendly firm is Hungary’s richest man and friends with autocratic (Trump fan) Orban.🎁
Foreign banks generated over $3.4bn in 2024 profit in Russia — a 15% increase from 2023, according to KSE.

The banking sector remains a critical source of revenue for Moscow, helping offset losses from sanctions and restricted export income.

#Raiffeisen, #UniCredit, #OTPbank — it’s time to go.
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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December 8: BCI has ~$62.07M in Tourmaline Oil Corp, the Calgary-based, er, gassy giant.❄️ It’s the #1 fossil gas producer and methane emitter in 🇨🇦. In Oct 2024 Tourmaline released over 3x the EPA “super-emitter” threshold of 100kg methane/hour.🛷 What a ”super“ investment for a superannuation fund!☃️
Tourmaline's methane emissions surge 200% on series of acquisitions
The Alberta company is the largest emitter of methane in Canada’s energy heartland, surpassing Canadian Natural Resources. Keep reading here
financialpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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December 7: BCI has ~$81.48M in Reliance Industries Ltd, the Indian conglomerate that owns the world's biggest refining complex.🎄In late 2024, Reliance signed a 10yr mega-deal with Rosneft for 0.5M barrels of crude per day! Thoughtful pension investing: climate arson AND bankrolling fascist Russia!🔔
Russia, India sign record oil supply deal, Reuters reports
Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft and Indian refining giant Reliance Industries have finalized a landmark agreement to supply 500,000 barrels of oil daily for the next 10 years, Reuters reported...
kyivindependent.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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December 6: BCI has ~$27.73M in Southern Company, one of the US’s biggest utilities + GHG emitters.🎁 A poster child for climate denial + delay,❄️ including decades-long disinfo campaigns vs. climate action and fighting pollution rules + clean energy, Southern plans to keep using lots of gas + coal.🛷
Southern Company extends life of coal plants to power data centers, appears to abandon net zero goal
New filings show Southern Company is seeking to extend the life of three coal-fired power plants representing approximately 8,200 megawatts.
energyandpolicy.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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December 5: BCI has ~$67.93M in Philip Morris International, the US tobacco firm.☃️ Besides selling cancer sticks, PMI keeps operating in fascist 🇷🇺 - in 2024 it was #1 foreign firm by revenue, and paid the Kremlin $220M in profit tax (i.e. funded war on 🇺🇦). My BCI, what a robust ESG policy you have!🎉
Foreign firms paid $60 billion in taxes to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
Foreign firms paid $60 billion in taxes to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
b4ukraine.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM