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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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…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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Too late, we just realized this would have been a good title for the 🧵 below airing our grievances about BCI’s pension investments!!!

“Divest-ivus”
Hey 🦋 friends! Our 2nd Annual BetterPensionsBC Advent Calendar is complete!🔔
If you haven’t had a look yet, follow the thread👇 for a fun daily surprise - an AWFUL firm in which BCI invests YOUR pensions!🎁
Please share with teachers, health workers + other BC public sector workers you know!🎄
☃️🎄ADVENT CALENDAR🎄🎅
Here we are now in the holiday fests,
Discover some firms where BCI invests!
Pipelines, tobacco, and more stranded assets,
Sons of Apartheid, MAGAs and fascists,
Regime supporters, genocide enablers,
Human rights abusers in 24 flavours.
Oil, gas and coal, with barely a mention, …
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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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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Same. Not safe or ethical. There are a million great places to see in Canada and other countries.
Hey 🇨🇦 - if in doubt about whether to visit the US right now, ask yourself any of these fun questions!
-Would you have visited Italy in 1925?
-Or Germany in 1938?
-How about the USSR in 1968?
-Cambodia in 1976?
-Or Argentina in 1982?
-Serbia in 1999?
-Russia in 2023?
-What about Israel in 2025?
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Fascist Russia is 100% responsible for a disproportionate share of shitty developments around the world.
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
December 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Spot on. All the more reason for Canada and the other remaining democracies to ramp up support for our ally Ukraine.
Completely agree. The new US NSS - with its aggressively stupid characterization of Europe and conspicuous silence about fascist Russia, and even referencing a return to the Monroe Doctrine - tells us all we in Canada and the other remaining democracies need to know.
Completely disgraceful, but hardly surprising that the Trump regime venerates other moral degenerates and criminals. It’s left now to the remaining democracies like 🇨🇦 + 🇪🇺 to redouble our efforts to help democratic 🇺🇦 defeat fascist 🇷🇺. That includes MUCH tougher sanctions. #MakeRussiaSmallAgain
December 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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High-fives all around in both the Kremlin and Mar-a-Lago as Smith + the Alberta separatist 5th columnists undermine Canada. The ‘U’ in UCP stands for ‘Useful Idiots”.
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 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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David is right.
When a government magics up new legislation (Bill 14) to sidestep the courts and enable the separatists' (un)constitutional citizen initiative, there is only one conclusion.
Smith, the UCP & their fellow travellers are separatists.
Govern yourself accordingly.
#ableg #aboli #cdnpoli
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Evergreen question.
To borrow a rhetorical question often used in relation to Trump: if Danielle Smith were an asset of a hostile foreign power, what would she be doing differently?
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.
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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It really, really shivers me timbers to think how cheaply even Europe alone could now defeat this threat to our democracy and way of life. But won't.
❗️Additional footage of 🇷🇺Russian military use of horses on the front line
December 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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It's idiotic to ask him these things while his mind is freshly full of Russian propaganda. Ru wants to occupy all of Ukraine, destroy everything Ukrainian, absorb, russify, and rebuild as Ru. That's what they're attempting to do in the occupied territories. It's genocidal intent, not good will.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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this whole 🧵

#bcpoli
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 28, 2025 at 10:40 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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It’s time for New Year’s resolutions — ours is to save as many lives from russian terror as possible. With your help.

We’re launching a final 2025 raffle to help close 2 campaigns at once.

Campaigns that help protect people from harm🧵
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December 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM