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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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Good thing that British Columbians don’t have any investments in……. oh.

*updated figure is $213.45M
We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x
Elon Musk's speech in Germany raises concerns about his increased political meddling abroad | CBC News
Elon Musk's comments at a rally for Germany's far-right AfD party last weekend have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries — including Canada.
www.cbc.ca
December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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What we invest in grows. Canadian pensions hold far more fossil fuels than renewables. If we aren't investing in a better future WTF are we doing?
December 4: BCI has ~$72.22M in Cheniere Energy Inc, the world’s 2nd biggest LNG producer.🎄 Its Sabine Pass (LA) and Corpus Christi (TX) terminals have a history of breaking air + water pollution laws, and emit the most GHGs of any LNG terminals in the US.❄️ LNG = poison for people + the planet.🧑‍🎄
Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws, Report Finds
With Trump propelling the U.S. LNG industry into a massive expansion, companies are flouting landmark environmental laws.
www.desmog.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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What could possibly go wrong?
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 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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100%
Seems like a good day to re-post this. All public institutions in Canada, including CBC and every level of government, should ditch Xitter immediately - it’s a racist, fascist filth factory run by Nazi-loving Apartheid Clyde.
If we are serious about preserving Canada’s democracy and sovereignty, Canadian institutions need to stop tolerating the intolerant! 👇 Amongst other things, that means blocking X, Rebel and others making $$ from purposefully purveying disinformation and division.
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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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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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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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100% Too many Canadians don’t realize fascist Russia is at war with Canada and the other remaining democracies too. (Example👇) We should act accordingly - with way more support for Ukraine and way tougher sanctions on Moscow. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Totally. NATO members + EU states have been WAY too slow to support Ukraine, to see fascist Russia for what it is, and to appreciate the scale of the threat. Even now, many in Canada and Europe don’t understand that Ukraine is defending the wider democratic world - the Kremlin is at war with us too!
Canada expresses concerns to Russia after reports of plot to put incendiary devices on planes | CBC News
The government of Canada has expressed concerns directly to Russia following reports that Moscow was behind a plot to put incendiary devices on planes flying to North America.
www.cbc.ca
December 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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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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Precisely. Glad you frame it that way - not enough people realize the essentially imperialist nature of fascist Russia’s worldview + attacks on its neighbours.
Related - may find thread below of interest, looking at some of the lessons we might draw from the Nordics + others.
Mere months ago, the following words would have seemed wildly hyperbolic: Canada🇨🇦 must strengthen its defences vs. the US, fast. Our democracy + sovereignty is in serious jeopardy. We only have a few months to get going.
Luckily, we can learn from other small democracies, like 🇫🇮+🇸🇪+🇳🇴, with long… 1/x
Sweden, Finland and Norway release new advice on surviving war
Sweden said the new advice follows a worsening security situation, by which it means the war in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:49 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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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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Russia always lies, but the problem Ukraine - and Europe as a whole - now faces is that the USA has a president who is only too willing to believe those lies, or at least to pretend he does.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of trying to sabotage peace talks with ‘typical Russian lies’
Russia’s claim it foiled drone attack on Putin residence shows ‘they do not want to finish this war’, Ukrainian president says
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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For @nationalobserver.com, I spoke with U of T’s Laura Tozer.
Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.
This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students
Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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December 1: BCI has ~$5.52M in Fox Corp, owner of Fox News.🎄 From climate change denial to election lies to quack medicine to anti-🇨🇦 propaganda, Fox happily undermines democracy + society.❄️ High on the list of causes of the US’s descent into fascism, Fox is the Trump regime’s dependable mouthpiece.🎁
Fox News controversies - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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December 2: BCI has ~$68.50 in Imperial Oil Ltd, Canada's 2nd biggest integrated oil company (and 70% owned by ExxonMobil).🎅 In January 2025, regulators charged Imperial for leaking ~5.3 million llitres of oil sands tailings + toxic chemicals into Alberta waterways from its Kearl oil sands mine.🎄
Imperial Oil charged after toxic tailings leak – Canada's largest pension funds hold nearly US$300 million in shares — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
The Alberta Energy Regulator has laid nine charges against Imperial Oil after the company leaked an estimated 5.3 million litres of oil sands tailings and toxic chemicals into Alberta waterways from i...
www.shiftaction.ca
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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December 3: BCI has ~$7.13M in Sinopec,🛷 the publicly-traded arm of China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, the world’s biggest oil refining conglomerate (state-controlled).🎁 Beyond the obvious climate arson, Sinopec has helped fund Putin’s barbaric war on 🇺🇦 by buying loads of oil from fascist Russia.❄️
Sinopec resumes Russian oil purchase after short pause amid sanctions risks, sources say
Sinopec, Asia's top refiner, resumed purchases of Russian oil after a brief pause last month to assess risks from sanctions imposed by the United States on Russian entities, trade sources said on Wedn...
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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December 4: BCI has ~$72.22M in Cheniere Energy Inc, the world’s 2nd biggest LNG producer.🎄 Its Sabine Pass (LA) and Corpus Christi (TX) terminals have a history of breaking air + water pollution laws, and emit the most GHGs of any LNG terminals in the US.❄️ LNG = poison for people + the planet.🧑‍🎄
Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws, Report Finds
With Trump propelling the U.S. LNG industry into a massive expansion, companies are flouting landmark environmental laws.
www.desmog.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 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
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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 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 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 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