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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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…The Special Rapporteur’s report says Palantir “expanded its support to the Israeli military post-October 2023. …In January 2024, Palantir announced a new
strategic partnership with Israel and held a board meeting in Tel Aviv “in solidarity”.“ For more, see the full report👇(especially para 42). 8/x
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - (A/HRC/59/23) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 - Question of Pal...
To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July...
www.un.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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When we call on CPPIB, BCI + other pension investment managers in 🇨🇦 to divest from Palantir, it‘s not just because of its awful use by ICE - it’s also because of its use by Israel, as detailed in July 2025 by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian territories. 7/x
Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur
Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecutions
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Here’s a great article👇about 🇨🇦’s ties to Palantir:
“When the CPP invests in Palantir, it uses your retirement money to finance a company with a documented record of human rights abuses. …Anyone paying into a public pension funding Palantir has the capital to demand divestment.“
Amen. 6/x
Canadians mad about ICE:

Know that we are complicit and we are vulnerable.

Canada is one of Palantir’s biggest funders, our pensions are tied to Palantir’s business. Which includes supporting ICE, profiting off genocide in Gaza, and human rights violations.

ricochet.media/labour/billi...
When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Peter Thiel’s Palantir borrowed its name from The Lord of the Rings, and two decades later, it’s living up to the metaphor by quietly embedding itself in the machinery of government
ricochet.media
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ invested in PALANTIR, which is enabling the ICE secret police and its horrific terror campaign.
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
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
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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Preposterous reputation laundering. Meanwhile, Suncor’s massive fossil pollution + climate arson will certainly directly contribute to suffering, disease, and early deaths for 100,000’s of kids + adults in 🇨🇦 + globally. (Techniques for attributing climate damage might already make this calculable.)
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Shameful indeed. And like the IOC, FIFA too seems to be a fan of fascist Russia, per article👇

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇨🇦
As if pandering to Trump, committing climate arson👆and rewarding Gulf dictators wasn’t quite enough moral degeneracy, FIFA’s president is now calling for fascist 🇷🇺 to return to international football. The same evil regime busy raining ballistic missiles + shahed drones on 🇺🇦 civilians for 4 years.
⚡️'Moral degenerate' — Ukraine slams FIFA president for supporting Russia's return.

"679 Ukrainian girls and boys will never be able to play football — Russia killed them," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said after FIFA President Gianni Infantino backed lifting the ban on Russian athletes.
February 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Great article - thanks. Important to note that one of those AI companies is the Gestapo’s favourite firm, Palantir. Growing thread 👇 on CPPIB, BCI and other pension fund investment managers.
A grim day to note that Canada Pension Plan Investments has ~$264M in PALANTIR, which is enabling muderous ICE + its horrific terror campaign. Pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy!!! (see👆post re BCI)
Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...
The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’
A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.
www.politico.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Exactly!!!
The quote below sums it up well - some things are more important than money.
And other pension funds are under pressure to drop Palantir too! Calling on New Jersey’s public worker pension system to divest, a historian put it perfectly: “You have a higher order than your bullshit logic of fiduciary duty…. Uphold the law. Uphold human rights. Have a conscience. Divest.” 3/x
Activists urge N.J. pension fund to drop ICE contractor that tracks immigrants
The $80 billion public worker pension fund invests in Palantir Technologies, which is creating a national immigrant database
www.nj.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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Agreed (and thanks for sharing the article). And even short of an actual civil war, worsening civil unrest and ICE-led repression + ethnic cleansing seems pretty likely, and will probably spill over in all sorts of ways, including huge numbers of refugees. Trump is such a cancer for the whole world.
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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As if pandering to Trump, committing climate arson👆and rewarding Gulf dictators wasn’t quite enough moral degeneracy, FIFA’s president is now calling for fascist 🇷🇺 to return to international football. The same evil regime busy raining ballistic missiles + shahed drones on 🇺🇦 civilians for 4 years.
⚡️'Moral degenerate' — Ukraine slams FIFA president for supporting Russia's return.

"679 Ukrainian girls and boys will never be able to play football — Russia killed them," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said after FIFA President Gianni Infantino backed lifting the ban on Russian athletes.
'Moral degenerate' — Ukraine slams FIFA president for supporting Russia's return
"Six-hundred seventy-nine Ukrainian girls and boys will never be able to play football — Russia killed them," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said after FIFA President Gianni Infantino backed lifting t...
kyivindependent.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists and that many democracies are busy bankrolling the very regimes trying to destroy us. For example, 🇬🇧 continuing to buy oil products made from 🇷🇺 crude = ~£44M per month for the Kremlin, which helps fund the drones bringing death + destruction to 🇺🇦.
The UK has imported £4B of jet fuel & other oil products from refineries that run partially on Russian crude since the start of the UK's ban on Russian oil in Dec 2022 until the end of 2025. Of this, £1.6B is estimated as being refined from Russian crude oil, according to @creacleanair.bsky.social.
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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And now this👇 NYC’s comptroller seems to be asking pretty close to the exact question you raised above - i.e. what’s the legal risk for pension funds that invest in firms committing human rights abuses + other crimes?
Now comes news that NYC‘s Comptroller, who oversees its public pension funds, wants an independent investigation into Palantir’s work with ICE, invoking ICE shootings in Minneapolis and potential “legal, reputational and human capital risks” to the firm. NYC pensions have big $ in Palantir. 5/x
NYC invests in firm that helps ICE deport people. The city comptroller is concerned.
City Comptroller Mark Levine is pressing for an inquiry into Palantir Technologies, citing human rights concerns.
gothamist.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Very understandable feeling! If we draws lessons from Finland, Ukraine and other countries with experience living next to an aggressive neighbour, there are so many ways we can all contribute to making Canada more resilient. (Earlier in that same thread, there are lots of articles and resources👇).
…benefits, progressive taxation, and redistribution of income. The 2nd layer is “a balanced and resilient economy that cannot be destabilized either by purposeful attempts or so-called market forces.” The 3rd layer = security of supply (materials for survival + defence). Lots to learn from 🇫🇮! 5/x
Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia
Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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Same! What a relief that major public sector pension investment managers in Canada like BCI don’t have any investments in……. oh.

*updated figure is $213.45M
We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x
Elon Musk's speech in Germany raises concerns about his increased political meddling abroad | CBC News
Elon Musk's comments at a rally for Germany's far-right AfD party last weekend have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries — including Canada.
www.cbc.ca
February 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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And why are European countries continuing to buy BILLION$ in fossil fuels from fascist Russia?
(*we know why Hungary is, but what about the rest?)
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
Hungary, France, Belgium & Spain are still buying Russian fossil fuels, helping fund the war in #Ukraine.

#EU spent €1.3B in Dec 2025 (11% of Russia’s top 5 export revenue)
#Hungary: €337| #France: €204| #Belgium: €204M| #Spain: €203M

The EU must act to end Russia’s brutality!
February 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Exactly. Canada has absolutely got to be clear-eyed and take the prospects of US interference + invasion seriously. Just because it’s such a radical change from the 🌎 we grew used to, doesn’t make it less true or dangerous. The Nordics offer lots of lessons👇for resilience vs. all sorts of threats.
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
February 9, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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If we are serious about preserving Canada’s democracy and sovereignty, Canadian institutions need to stop tolerating racists and fascists.
Karl Popper’s sage advice for democracies - don’t tolerate the intolerant!
“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Great question. Extra troubling given the clear affinity this MP and many Cons have for MAGA specifically and reactionary BS more generally. And the US itself, via the Logan Act, “criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the US and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen.”🧐
Logan Act - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Resuming our🧵about the Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA) - in late January the 🇨🇦Senate’s Standing Committee on Environment + Sustainable Development recommended CAFA’s adoption. CAFA is critical to making our $$ (including pensions) more climate-friendly. See👇from @senrosagalvez.bsky.social 6/x
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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Alberta separatists asking Trump to help set up an army demands IMMEDIATE prosecution for treason. Working to create an army with a foreign state whose clear & obvious purpose will be to fight Canada is a massive threat to our national security and sovereignty.
1/5

ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-sep...
Canadian Separatists Reveal Jaw-Dropping Details of Secret Meetings With Trump Teams
Far-right Canadian separatists trying to break up the country have spilled wild details of meetings with senior Trump officials. The Alberta Prosperity Project, seen by many Canadians as “attention-se...
ca.news.yahoo.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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Fk Palantir - gtf outta Canada NOW.

Hey PM Carney - are you gonna act on this file?
A grim day to note that Canada Pension Plan Investments has ~$264M in PALANTIR, which is enabling muderous ICE + its horrific terror campaign. Pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy!!! (see👆post re BCI)
Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...
The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’
A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.
www.politico.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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MEDIA RELEASE: Almost 30 banks have turned their backs on TotalEnergies' proposed Papua LNG project, following a formal Equator Principles complaint concerning risks to biodiversity, the #climate and human rights. @reclaimfinance.org
Almost 30 banks turn their back on TotalEnergies’ Papua LNG project  - Market Forces
Twelve more financial institutions have said they will not finance TotalEnergies’ proposed Papua LNG project
www.marketforces.org.au
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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The divide is clear: some funds are pulling ahead, others are falling behind at a moment when alignment with long-term fiduciary duty becomes increasingly tied to climate alignment.

Read the full report: www.shiftaction.ca/reportcard2025
2025 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
Shift's 2025 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, an independent benchmark for evaluating the quality, depth and credibility of climate policies for 11 of Canada’s largest pension managers, reveals a...
www.shiftaction.ca
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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OPSEU Pension Trust (OPTrust) met its 2025 climate goals and recommitted to net-zero by 2050, but its climate plan requires updating.
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) continues to implement its climate plan, but discloses little.
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM