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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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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
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...
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Putin launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII — killing civilians, kidnapping children, and eliminating political opponents. Yet Mr. Witkoff says he’s “not a bad guy.” Diplomacy requires engaging with dictators, but that doesn't mean we have to check our values at the door.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Putin launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII — killing civilians, kidnapping children, and eliminating political opponents. Yet Mr. Witkoff says he’s “not a bad guy.” Diplomacy requires engaging with dictators, but that doesn't mean we have to check our values at the door.
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Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuel foreign policy: buy football soft power, block the climate action needed to protect football fans and players from the biggest threat humanity faces.
Fifa partners with Saudi Arabia and pledges $1bn to fund football infrastructure
Under the new deal, discounted loans will go towards the construction of stadiums with priority given to developing nations
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuel foreign policy: buy football soft power, block the climate action needed to protect football fans and players from the biggest threat humanity faces.
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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
…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! 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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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!
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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
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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
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November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
As true today as it was 3 months ago. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 #MakeRussiaSmallAgain
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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
As long as Alberta and Ottawa continue to push for another dirty fossil pipeline…
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100%
EXACTLY. The only thing that 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 + 🇪🇺 + others should be doing right now is helping our democratic ally Ukraine CRUSH fascist Russia. That means way more military supplies, humanitarian aid, funding, and airtight sanctions on Moscow. For instance👇
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
American top diplomat Marco Rubio said last week that the US is running out of options to sanction Russia.
He added, “Shadow fleet has come up because I do think there are things that the Europeans can do on shadow fleet since a lot of these are happening in areas much closer to them.” 1/6 ⤵️
He added, “Shadow fleet has come up because I do think there are things that the Europeans can do on shadow fleet since a lot of these are happening in areas much closer to them.” 1/6 ⤵️
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
100%
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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👇)
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
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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👇)
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👇)
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To learn more about Drax (seriously, were they trying to choose a comically-villainous name?), check out the @ember-energy.org report👇 Drax power plant is the biggest single CO2e source in 🇬🇧 - 13.3M tonnes (more than the next 4 emitters combined). Sure glad we cut down all that BC old-growth! 3/x
Drax is still the UK's largest emitter | Ember
Drax power plant tops the list of largest carbon emitters in the UK, followed by Port Talbot Steelworks and Pembroke gas power station as coal and steel closures shake up rankings.
ember-energy.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
To learn more about Drax (seriously, were they trying to choose a comically-villainous name?), check out the @ember-energy.org report👇 Drax power plant is the biggest single CO2e source in 🇬🇧 - 13.3M tonnes (more than the next 4 emitters combined). Sure glad we cut down all that BC old-growth! 3/x
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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!
Razom We Stand and 30+ European organisations have sent a joint letter urging #EU leaders to finally close the loopholes that still allow Russian fossil fuels into Europe and to uphold a strong, loophole-free Regulation: razomwestand.com/ukrainian-ca...
@caneurope.org
@caneurope.org
Ukrainian and European NGOs Urge EU Leaders to Close the Loopholes to End Dependency on Russian Fossil Fuels | Razom We Stand
Ukrainian campaign group Razom We Stand, together with more than 30 European civil society organisations, is urging European Union leaders […]
razomwestand.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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!
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Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil revenues to bankroll its imperial war of aggression against our democratic ally Ukraine. Australia👇 and other countries need to wake up and stop supporting the Kremlin! Shameful.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
A coalition of Ukrainian & EU civil society groups urges PM @albomp.bsky.social to close Australia’s Russian oil refining loophole. While the EU & UK banned it, Australia imports “laundered” Russian fuels, sending ~$1.3B to Russia. Close the loophole. Stop funding the war. @razomwestand.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil revenues to bankroll its imperial war of aggression against our democratic ally Ukraine. Australia👇 and other countries need to wake up and stop supporting the Kremlin! Shameful.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
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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
@razomwestand.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Always.🇨🇦🇺🇦
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Terrible. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the UK also massively subsidizes burning massive amounts of wood - including old-growth trees(!) from BC - to generate a lot of its power. At a time when renewables + storage are cheap and dependable!!!
To learn more about Drax (seriously, were they trying to choose a comically-villainous name?), check out the @ember-energy.org report👇 Drax power plant is the biggest single CO2e source in 🇬🇧 - 13.3M tonnes (more than the next 4 emitters combined). Sure glad we cut down all that BC old-growth! 3/x
Drax is still the UK's largest emitter | Ember
Drax power plant tops the list of largest carbon emitters in the UK, followed by Port Talbot Steelworks and Pembroke gas power station as coal and steel closures shake up rankings.
ember-energy.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Terrible. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the UK also massively subsidizes burning massive amounts of wood - including old-growth trees(!) from BC - to generate a lot of its power. At a time when renewables + storage are cheap and dependable!!!
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US regime = ultimate useful idiots.
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
@razomwestand.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
US regime = ultimate useful idiots.
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EXACTLY. The only thing that 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 + 🇪🇺 + others should be doing right now is helping our democratic ally Ukraine CRUSH fascist Russia. That means way more military supplies, humanitarian aid, funding, and airtight sanctions on Moscow. For instance👇
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
American top diplomat Marco Rubio said last week that the US is running out of options to sanction Russia.
He added, “Shadow fleet has come up because I do think there are things that the Europeans can do on shadow fleet since a lot of these are happening in areas much closer to them.” 1/6 ⤵️
He added, “Shadow fleet has come up because I do think there are things that the Europeans can do on shadow fleet since a lot of these are happening in areas much closer to them.” 1/6 ⤵️
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
EXACTLY. The only thing that 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 + 🇪🇺 + others should be doing right now is helping our democratic ally Ukraine CRUSH fascist Russia. That means way more military supplies, humanitarian aid, funding, and airtight sanctions on Moscow. For instance👇
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
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🚨 Reminder to register for our webinar tomorrow!
Join us on November 25 at 1 pm EST / 10am PST for a discussion on the landmark climate litigation launched by four young Canadians against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. #cdnpoli
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November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🚨 Reminder to register for our webinar tomorrow!
Join us on November 25 at 1 pm EST / 10am PST for a discussion on the landmark climate litigation launched by four young Canadians against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. #cdnpoli
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Meanwhile in Canada we are yammering about a bitumen pipeline
Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Meanwhile in Canada we are yammering about a bitumen pipeline
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…And here’s more ⬇️ from @stand.earth about how Drax runs a preposterous greenwashing scheme that destroys BC old-growth 🌲🌲🌲. The year is 2025, the 🌍 is on fire, and 🇬🇧 taxpayers are PAYING mega ££ to torch 🇨🇦 forests, spew massive GHGs, AND worsen air quality in Yorkshire. Well done, everyone! 2/x
We just spilled the dirty, greenwashing truth about Drax 👀
At #COP30, Senior Forest Campaigner Tegan Hansen explains how the energy giant is burying the facts: forest biomass is anything but renewable. 🧵
At #COP30, Senior Forest Campaigner Tegan Hansen explains how the energy giant is burying the facts: forest biomass is anything but renewable. 🧵
The dirty truth about biomass.
YouTube video by Stand.earth
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
…And here’s more ⬇️ from @stand.earth about how Drax runs a preposterous greenwashing scheme that destroys BC old-growth 🌲🌲🌲. The year is 2025, the 🌍 is on fire, and 🇬🇧 taxpayers are PAYING mega ££ to torch 🇨🇦 forests, spew massive GHGs, AND worsen air quality in Yorkshire. Well done, everyone! 2/x
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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 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
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
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Agree Canada needs to move fast. May find this thread of interest!
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
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
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Agree Canada needs to move fast. May find this thread of interest!
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Thanks for reposting your great 🧵 - remember reading it on Xitter back in 2022! Of course at that point, it seemed completely unimaginable that we too here in 🇨🇦 would be worried about an aggressive authoritarian regime on our doorstep… So 🇫🇮’s approach is VERY much of interest now! Hence thread👇
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
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
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Thanks for reposting your great 🧵 - remember reading it on Xitter back in 2022! Of course at that point, it seemed completely unimaginable that we too here in 🇨🇦 would be worried about an aggressive authoritarian regime on our doorstep… So 🇫🇮’s approach is VERY much of interest now! Hence thread👇
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Great points. And actually with concerns here in 🇨🇦 about inequality, polarization, and austerity budgets, have been often making point to others that Finland’s approach to security + societal resilience explicitly includes progressive taxation, income redistribution, strong social programs, etc.
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Great points. And actually with concerns here in 🇨🇦 about inequality, polarization, and austerity budgets, have been often making point to others that Finland’s approach to security + societal resilience explicitly includes progressive taxation, income redistribution, strong social programs, etc.
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Outside the russian embassy today in Ottawa.
🇨🇦 #NoPeaceWithoutJustice 🇺🇦
🇨🇦 #NoPeaceWithoutJustice 🇺🇦
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Outside the russian embassy today in Ottawa.
🇨🇦 #NoPeaceWithoutJustice 🇺🇦
🇨🇦 #NoPeaceWithoutJustice 🇺🇦
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People are bringing toys and flowers to the site of a Ternopil apartment building, destroyed by a russian attack, in memory of the victims of russian terror💔
May they rest in peace🕯️
May they rest in peace🕯️
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
People are bringing toys and flowers to the site of a Ternopil apartment building, destroyed by a russian attack, in memory of the victims of russian terror💔
May they rest in peace🕯️
May they rest in peace🕯️
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"The carbon pollution from expanding oil production to fill a massive new pipeline will overwhelm any potential reductions involved. We should be pivoting to clean renewable energy, not doubling down on dirty fossil fuels." - @climatekeith.bsky.social
#Cdnpoli #ABpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
#Cdnpoli #ABpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Ottawa, Alberta agree to broad outlines of energy deal, including path to pipeline | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental l...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"The carbon pollution from expanding oil production to fill a massive new pipeline will overwhelm any potential reductions involved. We should be pivoting to clean renewable energy, not doubling down on dirty fossil fuels." - @climatekeith.bsky.social
#Cdnpoli #ABpoli
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#Cdnpoli #ABpoli
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Fascist Russia launching Kalibr cruise missiles from warships off the eastern Black Sea coast. Kyiv targeted by cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles tonight, as well as Russian/Iranian Shahed attack drones.
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Fascist Russia launching Kalibr cruise missiles from warships off the eastern Black Sea coast. Kyiv targeted by cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles tonight, as well as Russian/Iranian Shahed attack drones.