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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 8h

💯 And how many of the Americans in these stories happily voted for Trump 2x, or didn’t vote at all? (~70%) Because they were racists + awful + approve of him, his cruelty, corruption and Project 2025. And/or ignorant + wildly uncurious. Or misogynists who wouldn‘t vote for a woman. They CHOSE this.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 15d

💯 Glad to see others making this point. Long past time for Canada and other democracies to act accordingly.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 13d

Further to the👆post, it’s worth highlighting AkademikerPension’s rationale: “The decision is based on an assessment that the ongoing conflict is not being conducted in accordance with international principles of proportionality, the
protection of civilians, and access to impartial humanitarian aid.”

akademikerpension.dk

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 18d

Adding to the growing wave of divestment from both Israel and firms doing business with Israel, AkademikerPension - a big 🇩🇰 pension fund manager - announced that it is “excluding Israeli state assets, including government-controlled companies, from its investment portfolio… due to the war in Gaza.”

Danish pension fund drops Israeli investments over human rights concerns

Danish fund manager AkademikerPension is excluding Israeli state assets, including government-controlled companies, from its investment portfolio, it said on Wednesday, due to the war in Gaza and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

www.reuters.com

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 9d

Canada’s prairies, for that matter.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 10d

Guess BC should demand that Alberta and Saskatchewan not stand in the way as we build some massive wind farms in Canada’s prairies. After all, it‘s the best place to get our wind energy to market.

Graphic showing how a Chinook wind forms over the mountains.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 8d

A big THANK YOU to our new 🦋 friends!!! The posts👇 give some basic background about BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans, and their investments. TL;DR - our pensions have big $$ in firms that are cooking the planet, funding fascists, and complicit in war crimes. Oh, and Big Tobacco. Spread the word!

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Nov 17

Why should you care about how BC Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests? It manages ~$250 BILLION in assets, mainly on behalf of 10 public sector pension plans, including the BC Public Service Pension Plan, Municipal Pension Plan (also includes nurses + many others), Teachers’ Pension Plan…

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 7d

And a good time to note that 750,000 or so British Columbians unwittingly have their public sector pensions heavily invested in ExxonMobil (and lots of other fossil firms). 🌍🔥

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Jan 22

Fun fact! BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have ~$75.32M in ExxonMobil, the climate arsonist that owns 70% of Imperial Oil. See @shiftaction.bsky.social 👇 on absurdity of pension plans claiming "engagement" is helping Imperial improve its enviro oversight, reduce GHGs and align with net-zero.

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Jan 21

1/ 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 its Kearl oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 6d

Engler is also the only one who carries water for war criminal Putin and fascist Russia.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 5

A quick search shows that Engler himself is a huge spreader of pro-Russian disinfo + anti-Ukraine lies, in writings, videos, and an interview on fascist state organ RT. To be so utterly wrong about one of the most morally clear wars of our time is entirely disqualifying for this useful idiot. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 6d

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil revenue to bankroll its evil war against our democratic ally Ukraine🇺🇦.
Why is Taiwan🇹🇼 importing 🇷🇺 naphtha + coal??? See the helpful @creacleanair.bsky.social thread👇for more info.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 13d

🇷🇺🛢️NEW | Report: Taiwan's average monthly imports of Russian naphtha spiked nearly 6x between 2022 and H1 2025 to USD 1.3 bn, making Taiwan the world’s top importer

W/ Isaac Levi, Luke Wickenden, Hsin Hsuan Sun, Mark Pojen Hsu, Vladimir Slivyak

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 5d

…firm’s many performance + governance issues. “We are concerned that the Board remains fixated on pleasing Mr. Musk, rather than responsibly addressing his many varied pursuits, at least some of which have come at the expense of Tesla shareholders.” Time for pension plans in 🇨🇦 to ditch this 🍋! 15/x

Tesla Shareholders Told To Reject Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package

A shareholder battle is brewing over the proposed $1 trillion U.S. pay package being offered to Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. Major Tesla shareholders, led by the New York City employee pension fund...

www.baystreet.ca

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Resuming our thread highlighting the growing number of pension funds that are sick of investing in Tesla: several big US pension funds are trying to replace the board and stop a potential $1 Trillion(!) pay package for the Nazi-loving, USAID cutting, sociopathic CEO. The letter details the…. 14/x

Pension funds call to vote down Musk's $1T pay package, replace Tesla board

A group representing several large pension funds sent a letter with concerns about Tesla's board, opposing its proposals.

electrek.co

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 21d

🔥 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 🧵👇

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3d

And here’s a closer look👇at the US- based companies that continue to do business in fascist Russia. These awful firms directly enable the Kremlin’s brutal war on Ukraine, by paying lots of taxes, keeping Russians employed, and providing key goods + services. Please boycott them! @b4ukraine.org 4/x

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · 7d

The US, Ukraine’s largest bilateral donor, is also the largest corporate contributor to Russia’s war economy. In 2024, US firms paid $1.2B in profit tax to the Kremlin, dominating several segments, including Alcohol & Tobacco (Philip Morris), Food & Beverages (PepsiCo, Mondelēz), FMCG (Mars, P&G).

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

Great article - thanks for sharing!
“Another action is getting your work investments out of fossil fuels – things like banks, insurance companies, pensions. Again, acting collectively, leveraging these financial tools to make a big change happen in the marketplace can be really, really powerful.”

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

💯 AND for prosecuting all the crimes this regime, its leaders, its mid-level officers, its propagandists, its corporate enablers, and its foot soldiers are committing. Plus thorough de-MAGAfication. Luckily authoritarian forces - e.g. Gestapo, Securitate, Stasi - seem to often keep copious records.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 8h

“We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”

Idk man, maybe you don’t get to “not be in politics” when one side is blowing up international relationships you depend on www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Ukraine Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @blue24world.bsky.social · 8h

🇺🇦 #Kharkiv
This is what the evacuation from a hospital in Kharkiv looks like after a Russian strike
#Ukraine #Russia
Post 🎥: Live 🇺🇦

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 8h

Europe has to ramp up its military aid again. Ukraine is starting to regain territory and that progress needs to be accelerated.
kyivindependent.com/military-aid...

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

kyivindependent.com

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 8h

💯 And how many of the Americans in these stories happily voted for Trump 2x, or didn’t vote at all? (~70%) Because they were racists + awful + approve of him, his cruelty, corruption and Project 2025. And/or ignorant + wildly uncurious. Or misogynists who wouldn‘t vote for a woman. They CHOSE this.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 13h

Bayeux memorial in France adds 73 journalists killed in past year for doing their jobs, including one from Ukraine — Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie

The ceremony honored journalists who died between 1 June 2024, and 1 June 2025, with the majority being Palestinian reporters killed in Gaza.⤵️

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10h

⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

kyivindependent.com

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sharwood 🇨🇦 @sharw00d.bsky.social · 9h

Why is the world allowing criminals to bomb hospitals?! Enough already!

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16h

More pictures from Russian attack on the hospital in Kharkiv tonight by Думка.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 13

💯 She‘s a fifth columnist.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Jun 27

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?

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · May 7

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.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 29d

With Apartheid Clyde in the news again for more evilness + hate + greed, seems like an appropriate time to re-share this thread.👇 Everybody tell your pension plans to divest from Tesla!!! 📉🔥

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Feb 3

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

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Hey 🦋 friends - please consider signing and sharing this important petition calling on the federal government to pass bold methane regulations! “Cutting methane is the low-hanging fruit of climate action.”
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social
@climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Tell policymakers we need bold action on methane pollution!

www.forourkids.ca

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