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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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If you live in Mission, Duncan or Colwood/Langford, you have some neo-Nazis you need to excise from your communities, permanently.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The utter lunacy at every climate-wrecking step of this scandalous business model is hard to overstate: killing old-growth🌲 in BC, trucking them to plants, turning them into pellets, shipping them half-way around the 🌍, then 🔥 them. All subsidized by 🇬🇧 taxpayers. @stand.earth @tzeporah.bsky.social
New @stand.earth report shows that zebras don’t change their stripes.

Drax is STILL sourcing wood from ecological significant forests in BC, still the single biggest carbon emitter in Britain, and still receiving subsidies from the UK Gov.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Join us for our #COP30 side event:

✨ Reaffirming the Need for Public Climate Finance
🚫 No to False Solutions

📅 Date: November 11
🕐 Time: 13:15–14:45 (Brazil time)
📍 Location: Side event Room 5 (Blue zone)

🎤 With Juan Carlos Monterrey, Panama's Special Representative for Climate Change.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Now that Tesla investors approved an obscene $1T reward for Musk, will 🇨🇦 pension funds finally divest?
BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have ~$213.45M in Tesla (as of March 31). Unclear how BCI voted at AGM, but ongoing investment, with OUR pension $$, in this noxious firm = complicity. 17/x
Musk could become world's 1st trillionaire after Tesla shareholders approve giant pay package | CBC News
Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade, handing him a chance to become history's...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Long past time to divest!
FYI - Tesla shareholders include BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans, to the tune of ~$213.45M (as of March 31, 2025).
Not sure how BCI voted at this AGM, but their ongoing investment - with OUR pension $$ - in this noxious firm = complicity. Other big pension funds have already divested! 👇
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
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Canada and the rest of the remaining democracies need to do way more - weapons, aid, finance, etc - to help our ally Ukraine fight fascist Russia (our common enemy, which is at war with us too.) Also, there are lots of small things to help 🇺🇦 that everyone can consider doing. Ideas👇
Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦

Idea 1: Read, share and subscribe to Ukraine-based media, like the @kyivindependent.com Co-founded by a group of journalists in late 2021, it’s a great source of reporting + investigations about 🇺🇦, its fight for survival, and related European + global issues.
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The Kyiv Independent is Ukraine’s fastest-growing English-language media outlet, created in November 2021, just three months before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Seriously, why are ANY Canadians going to the US at this point? It’s visibly descending into fascism, border + ICE are rampaging around terrorizing people, and the ruling regime is openly threatening annexation and hitting us with tariffs. Not safe, not ethical - don’t go!
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?
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The world is watching what happens at #COP30, and the call for the end of fossil fuels echoed in London.

The message is clear: fossil fuels have no place in the future of a world in a climate crisis.

It is time for courage, truth, and action.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Ashamed? Of this guy? But he looks so respectable and statesmanlike, out there visiting with his favourite constituents! And you never hear him complain or sound angry or petulant. Oh, and he’s just brimming with thoughtful solutions to complex policy challenges! PM material, that’s for sure!
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Who has 1/2 a trillion dollars and thinks “I need more?”
For what? What does a trillion get you that a billion can’t? FFS, help some people, do some good.
And now more big Tesla investors - Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, and pension funds like the American Federation of Teachers + the California Public Employees’ Retirement System - say they will vote against the ludicrous $1 trillion pay package for evil Musk. How will 🇨🇦 pension funds vote?
Elon Musk’s $1tn Tesla pay deal to be rejected by huge Norway wealth fund
Carmaker’s seventh biggest single investor will vote against package at annual shareholder meeting
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Here’s more ⬇️ on the court challenge and CPP’s continued big investments in climate arson. 🌎🔥
@shiftaction.bsky.social
💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan.
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Someone's pensions are now in the toilet. You won't be able to trade that investment without tanking it.
FYI - Tesla shareholders include BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans, to the tune of ~$213.45M (as of March 31, 2025).
Not sure how BCI voted at this AGM, but their ongoing investment - with OUR pension $$ - in this noxious firm = complicity. Other big pension funds have already divested! 👇
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
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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LNG is bad news all around.
Continuing our fun thread ”LNG is Poison for People + the Planet”, here’s a look👇 at an LNG plant’s horrifying impact on local air quality in Texas.
🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z...

#TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas
1/7 🧵👇
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Here’s more ⬇️ on the court challenge and CPP’s continued big investments in climate arson. 🌎🔥
@shiftaction.bsky.social
💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan.
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
Legal Challenge to Protect CPP from Climate Risk — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
www.shiftaction.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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GREAT news ⬇️ for everyone that wants CPP Investment Board to stop torching the 🌎!!!

Really hope BCI + AIMCo + other big pension fund managers in 🇨🇦 are paying attention.
@ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.

Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
 👉 https://bit.ly/4okNn1i
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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As the international security environment continues to deteriorate, including ongoing threats from 🇷🇺 and the spectre of US annexation, comes news that 🇨🇦 is seriously looking at how to hugely expand our military reserves. Finland‘s deep experience (see above🧵) seems a key point of reference. 30/x
Canadian military wants mobilization plan in place to boost reserves to 400,000 personnel
Mobilization plan would see Canadian Forces reserves increased to 400,000
ottawacitizen.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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For sure, in short term, they can find other fossil sources (see info👇from @razomwestand.bsky.social ). But in medium-longer term, expect them to shift to renewables - as other EU countries already are - since they are cheaper + provide energy independence. Dependence on ff = strategic vulnerabilty.
💯 Orban is a corrupt fascist leading Hungary backwards, and a cancer in the heart of Europe. The 🇪🇺 + NATO would be much better with 🇺🇦 in, and 🇭🇺 out. And Hungary’s continued purchase of Russian fossil fuels is all about fealty to Moscow, not economic or technical barriers (same for Slovakia). ⬇️
Ukraine struck a Russian oil station, halting crude flows to Hungary and Slovakia.

Research from @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social and creacleanair.bsky.social clearly shows that both countries could replace Russian oil imports immediately via Croatia and the Adria pipeline.

So why don’t they? ⤵️
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Essential next steps👇to crush fascist Russia’s fossil revenues - this is vital to help our ally Ukraine + protect the wider democratic world. Bonus: it’s good for the climate too! @b4ukraine.org
🦋 friends - please share widely + tell your governments!
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
B4Ukraine—a global coalition of 100 civil society organizations—welcomes the EU’s 19th sanctions package, including the ban on Russian LNG, a measure we have long advocated for. At the same time, we call for a faster tightening of the screws on Russia’s economy through a set of priority measures. ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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…and the climate re systemic risks posed by emissions-intensive activities;
(f) ensuring climate expertise on boards + disclosing conflicts of interest; and
(g) requiring action plans, targets + progress reports re. climate commitments through reporting requirements.
👍 @senrosagalvez.bsky.social
Long Live the Climate Aligned Finance Act - Environmental Defence
For the first time since Prime Minister Mark Carney took office, we have something tangible to fight for in our quest to advance climate finance in
environmentaldefence.ca
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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c) ensuring supervisory + reg. authorities develop appropriate oversight + capital adequacy requirements;
(d) requiring directors, officers + admin. to align entities w/climate commitments;
e) promoting timely + meaningful progress towards alignment w/stability of both the financial system…. 4/x
S-238 (45-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada
S-238 (45-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada
www.parl.ca
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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CAFA would establish climate commitments + obligations of federal entities + federally-regulated financial entities by e.g.:
(a) setting baseline requirements to achieve climate commitments;
(b) providing greater certainty + transparency for responsibilities re the global carbon budget; 3/x
Climate-Aligned Finance | Senator Rosa Galvez
rosagalvez.ca
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Here’s more👇about the Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA), which @senrosagalvez.bsky.social just reintroduced. She says CAFA “is essential because Canada’s reliance on fossil fuel financing is increasing systemic risk… We need structural rules, not wishful thinking.” Indeed. 2/x
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Hey 🦋 friends - this is REALLY important for our climate!
@senrosagalvez.bsky.social has introduced a new version of her Climate-Aligned Finance Act - key to making banks + pension funds better on climate. Tell @mark-carney.bsky.social + @juliedabrusin.bsky.social + your MPs to pass CAFA! 1/x
Proud to reintroduce – Fière de réintroduire the Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA) / la Loi sur la finance alignée sur le climat (LFAC) — a blueprint to🍁finance with climate goals, attract investment & build a resilient future. 🌍

🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/QKSIo3WFmS4

#CAFA #LFAC #NetZero
Reintroducing the Climate-Aligned Finance Act CAFA | Relance de la Loi sur la finance alignée LFAC
YouTube video by Senator Rosa Galvez
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November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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100% - Xitter is noxious and poisoning society.
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.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM