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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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…And don’t forget, fascist Russia’s ambitions go far beyond Ukraine - the Kremlin is ACTIVELY attacking and undermining democracies around the world, including Canada. Supporting our ally Ukraine to crush fascist Russia will make us all safer! 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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As true today as it was 3 months ago. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 #MakeRussiaSmallAgain
Listen to Ukrainian voices, not Moscow and its awful apologists! Western countries shouldn’t reward fascist Russia’s aggression with more land - we should crush the Kremlin with sanctions!
Please share this commentary by 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social widely!
Ukraine is not for sale. 🇺🇦

For today’s Trump/Zelenskyy/EU meeting, it's not “land gifts” that will stop Putin’s brutal military.
For a just peace, only crushing sanctions on Russian oil & gas will dry up his war chest!
#StandWithUkraine #SanctionsNow
razomwestand.com/trump-zelens...
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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As long as Alberta and Ottawa continue to push for another dirty fossil pipeline…
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.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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It’s almost that time of year again!!! ❄️☃️ That’s right, just a few days till the 2nd Annual BetterPensionsBC Advent Calendar!🎄🛷
Check back here starting December 1st - every day we’ll profile another AWFUL firm that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans invest in! 🎁🎅
(Here’s last year’s calendar👇)
Ho Ho Ho! 🤶🎅 Exclusively for our 🦋 followers, here is the 1st Annual BetterPensionsBC Advent Calendar!!!🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄 Instead of chocolate, or Lego, or a nice little picture, each day you’ll discover something even more FUN: a company in which BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans invest! ☃️🛷❄️ Follow along👇!
Advent calendar - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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And 🇨🇦’s plans to expand mobilization and strengthen our security + resilience are getting attention in Finland - from which we have a lot to learn! (See start of 🧵 for more on 🇫🇮 approach.) “The Liberal-led government views Finland's defence model as an example Canada should aspire to.”
33/x
Canada wants to learn from Finland
National security has been on Canadians' minds lately.
yle.fi
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Here’s more about how 🇨🇦’s top general is preparing to massively expand the reserves: “We are really looking at our own sovereignty, territory, and having those resilient communities who know where to go should anything happen, from pandemics to floods to a missile strike.” 32/x
Top general plans sweeping expansion of reserves for disasters, military attacks
Jennie Carignan says her plan would recruit volunteers to join a reserve force of as many as 400,000, and could take five to 10 years
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Good find @solarab.bsky.social - thanks for sharing!
AIMCo is the one provincial pension fund investment manager worse than BCI on climate + unethical investing. And with crypto-fascist, fossil fuel fiend Harper at the helm, things don’t look good for Alberta pensions. Here’s a short 🧵 about AIMCo.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Your BONUS daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on oil + gas + coal revenue to bankroll its criminal war of aggression against our ally Ukraine! Time for all democracies to immediately close sanctions loopholes and 🛑 buying the Kremlin’s bloody exports!
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
While Russia launches drones and missiles at our cities, Europe continues buying Russian #LNG, sending €938M to the Kremlin's war chest in October alone, helping finance the war that destroys our homes and kills our people. #Europe must close the loopholes and impose full energy #sanctions now.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists !!!
If EU countries (looking at you, 🇫🇷+🇧🇪+🇪🇸+🇳🇱), the UK, Australia and other democracies are truly serious about helping our ally Ukraine, they’d stop importing huge quantities of fossil oil + gas from fascist Russia.
@razomwestand.bsky.social
Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to kill civilians, fueled by revenue from fossil fuels. #TotalEnergies still holds stakes in Novatek & Yamal LNG. EU countries and the UK must ban all contracts with Russian-linked companies to ensure energy policies support Ukraine, not the war.
@caneurope.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Hi @turnbullwhitby.bsky.social - thanks for your support for Ukraine! Given that, and your post above, thought you’d be interested to know Toyota seems to be trying to resume business in fascist Russia! 👇 Might want to let Toyota’s leadership in Canada know how awful that is.
Toyota held a secret meeting with Russian dealers and is lobbying to bring its cars into the country via China, Russian media reported.

Given the ongoing Russia's war on Ukraine, we strongly urge Toyota to reaffirm its stance on this issue to alleviate concerns and provide clarity on its position.
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Well fascist Russia is actually incredibly fragile already, and if EU members and other democracies closed sanctions loopholes + stopped importing its fossil fuels, it wouldn’t have the $$ to keep brutalizing our ally Ukraine.
Fascist Russia is much more fragile than its cowardly apologists admit - its epic war losses are accelerating a demographic death-spiral and economic collapse.👇 So it’s incredibly important that 🇨🇦 + allies seize the moment to better help 🇺🇦 by tightening sanctions and hastening Moscow’s defeat.
“This is a serious enough slowdown that we’ve already been noticing it for the last 6 mths. Even military-industrial complex is beginning to slow down, partially because of the rates but also lack of labor, lack of ability to invest.” @eribakova.bsky.social via @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/4muEgKU
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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… Also, Ukraine’s excellent drone-enforced sanctions on fascist Russia’s oil + gas infrastructure, including putting upwards of 20% of refinery capacity offline, is having huge impact on exports and tax revenue to the Kremlin. Analysis below shows progress + need for more sanctions.
🇷🇺 NEW | Monthly analysis of Russian fossil fuel exports & sanctions

📉 In October 2025, revenues continue to slide to lowest levels since full-scale invasion but more to be done

❗️Sanctioned tankers transported 44% of Russian crude
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Several things true at once: accumulating web of sanctions (including secondary sanctions on 🇮🇳 + 🇨🇳) ARE having impacts across Russian economy; West has been too slow to implement crushing sanctions + much more still to do; internal strains of war on economy + society are deep, broad, and growing.
Cracks In Russia’s War Economy
After nearly four years of fiscal overreach caused by injecting trillions of rubles into the Russian economy, the Kremlin can no longer disguise its distress.
www.forbes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Yes indeed. And beyond the BS with fascist 🇷🇺, and despite greenwashing, Toyota is evil on climate: “It has become the largest funder of US lawmakers who deny the existence of the climate crisis… behind the scenes influencing US politics in a sustained attempt to hold EVs from mainstream adoption...”
Toyota Promoted Its Hybrid While Funding Climate Deniers - CleanTechnica
Between 2019 and 2023 Toyota spent over $31 million just on US federal lobbying, the majority of which was designated for climate deniers.
cleantechnica.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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And if those three NYC pension funds take Lander’s advice and fire BlackRock on climate grounds, they’d not be the first to do so - here’s an example 👇 from earlier in 2025. 2/x
Resuming our thread about pension funds that take climate change seriously, here’s a great new example!👇 As part of a shift to focus more on sustainability, giant Dutch pension fund PFZW is pulling out €14B invested with BlackRock, €15B from asset manager LGIM, and divesting from 1000’s of firms.
Top pension fund pulls €14bn from BlackRock in sustainability pivot
Dutch fund dumps world’s largest asset manager as European investors increasingly diverge with US over ESG
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Good news! NYC Comptroller Brad Lander ”is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing to tackle global warming.” 1/x
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social:

Four years Ukraine is fighting for the whole Europe.
NATO was built to fight only one war, not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria. One war to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back russia’s war machine’

by Aisha Down

US group Dekleptocracy identifies chemicals used for military vehicles’ lubricants and tyres as potential vulnerabilities

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’
US group Dekleptocracy identifies additives for military vehicles’ lubricants and tyres as potential vulnerabilities
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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100% The rest of the democratic world owes our ally Ukraine a huge debt of gratitude for fighting off fascist Russia (which after all, is at war with us too). Along with boosting military support and aid, the EU + others need to strangle the Kremlin’s fossil fuel revenues!
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Always.🇨🇦🇺🇦
Canada and other remaining democracies have to redouble our efforts to help our democratic ally Ukraine defeat fascist Russia (who is also already at war with us). A big part of that is full sanctions on Russian fossil fuels! More from the great organizations👇
The best time to sanction fascist Russia was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. @b4ukraine.org
@razomwestand.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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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.
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
April 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

Nearly at 70k, sign and share!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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"With $6 of every $10 in profits crossing the border, never to return, Canadian oil sands majors produced $12.3 billion worth of capital flight per year."
"The industry still creates jobs in Canada, and $20B/yr in tax revenues to Alberta but...paid at a lower tax rate than they did a decade ago."
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Toyota is morally bankrupt.
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Good news! NYC Comptroller Brad Lander ”is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing to tackle global warming.” 1/x
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM