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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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DIVEST FROM FASCISTS #4
This article takes a close look at the recent moves (see above) by big pension funds to reduce US exposure. “Foreign investors hold about US$10.4tn in US stocks. If even a small share of that starts to move, it matters for every pension plan plugged into global markets.“
This article takes a close look at the recent moves (see above) by big pension funds to reduce US exposure. “Foreign investors hold about US$10.4tn in US stocks. If even a small share of that starts to move, it matters for every pension plan plugged into global markets.“
Nordic pensions quietly test how much US risk they can stomach
Greenland’s tiny pension fund sends a big signal on US exposure
www.benefitsandpensionsmonitor.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
DIVEST FROM FASCISTS #4
This article takes a close look at the recent moves (see above) by big pension funds to reduce US exposure. “Foreign investors hold about US$10.4tn in US stocks. If even a small share of that starts to move, it matters for every pension plan plugged into global markets.“
This article takes a close look at the recent moves (see above) by big pension funds to reduce US exposure. “Foreign investors hold about US$10.4tn in US stocks. If even a small share of that starts to move, it matters for every pension plan plugged into global markets.“
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Agreed. CPPIB, BCI, AIMCo and other pension fund investment managers in Canada are sinking TENS OF BILLION$ into climate arsonists and fascist-friendly firms, thereby destroying the very futures we are meant to one day retire in.
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Agreed. CPPIB, BCI, AIMCo and other pension fund investment managers in Canada are sinking TENS OF BILLION$ into climate arsonists and fascist-friendly firms, thereby destroying the very futures we are meant to one day retire in.
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Disgraceful. On a related note, might be interested to know that CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.👇
A grim day to note that Canada Pension Plan Investments has ~$264M in PALANTIR, which is enabling muderous ICE + its horrific terror campaign. Pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy!!! (see👆post re BCI)
Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...
Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...
The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’
A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Disgraceful. On a related note, might be interested to know that CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.👇
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Divest fron Palantir, BC. The UK Chairman’s granddad was Oswald Mosley FFS.
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.)
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, …
January 29, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Divest fron Palantir, BC. The UK Chairman’s granddad was Oswald Mosley FFS.
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Agreed that Canada absolutely needs to get prepared and more resilient for this type of scenario ASAP. Even putting outright invasion aside, the instability south of us could spill across in all sorts of ways. Thread 👇 looks to other countries for lessons.
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
January 29, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Agreed that Canada absolutely needs to get prepared and more resilient for this type of scenario ASAP. Even putting outright invasion aside, the instability south of us could spill across in all sorts of ways. Thread 👇 looks to other countries for lessons.
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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
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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
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If 2025 was “Elbows Up”, 2026 will be “Elbows Up & Sharpened”
Canada is done with Hoekstra and the other MAGA fascists.
And we’re encouraging our friends in the UK and around the world to boycott the US!
And we’re encouraging our friends in the UK and around the world to boycott the US!
If you haven’t done so already, please boycott US products as much as possible and not travel there (and encourage your friends/family to do the same). The Trump regime has been repeatedly threatening 🇨🇦 too, and so in return Canadians have inflicted severe financial pain by cutting travel + imports.
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 AM
If 2025 was “Elbows Up”, 2026 will be “Elbows Up & Sharpened”
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Excellent. Some other examples in this thread!
DIVEST FROM FASCISTS
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension just said it would sell off its U.S. Treasuries, worth ~$100 million, by the end of January. It attributed the move to weak U.S. government finances, but it seems hard to believe Trump‘s demented threats weren’t a factor. Will others follow?
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension just said it would sell off its U.S. Treasuries, worth ~$100 million, by the end of January. It attributed the move to weak U.S. government finances, but it seems hard to believe Trump‘s demented threats weren’t a factor. Will others follow?
Danish pension fund to divest its U.S. Treasuries
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension said on Tuesday it would sell off its holding of U.S. Treasuries, worth some $100 million, by the end of this month, blaming weak U.S. government finances.
www.reuters.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Excellent. Some other examples in this thread!
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Exactly. Never compromise with 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.”
“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
January 26, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Exactly. Never compromise with fascists.
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In fairness, he prefers to go by “Reichsminister Miller”.
Miller is one of the more odious members of the Drumpf regime - “Dime-store Goebbels”, as others have referred to him. Some of his own relatives aren’t big fans.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
In fairness, he prefers to go by “Reichsminister Miller”.
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Canada is done with Hoekstra and the other MAGA fascists.
And we’re encouraging our friends in the UK and around the world to boycott the US!
And we’re encouraging our friends in the UK and around the world to boycott the US!
If you haven’t done so already, please boycott US products as much as possible and not travel there (and encourage your friends/family to do the same). The Trump regime has been repeatedly threatening 🇨🇦 too, and so in return Canadians have inflicted severe financial pain by cutting travel + imports.
Elbows up in 2025: How a year of Canadian boycotts on U.S. products played out | CBC News
Here are a few of the ways Canadians tried to put more power behind their purchase and travel choices in 2025 — and how those decisions may have impacted the U.S. economy.
www.cbc.ca
January 27, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Canada is done with Hoekstra and the other MAGA fascists.
And we’re encouraging our friends in the UK and around the world to boycott the US!
And we’re encouraging our friends in the UK and around the world to boycott the US!
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Yes indeed. Our pensions are complicit.
ICE Is Using a Terrifying Palantir App to Determine Where to Raid
The app shows potential deportation targets on a map.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Yes indeed. Our pensions are complicit.
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Thanks for sharing. In related news, might be interested in this - CPP Investment Board appears to be cool with Palantir + the Gestapo.
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...
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 28, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Thanks for sharing. In related news, might be interested in this - CPP Investment Board appears to be cool with Palantir + the Gestapo.
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Indeed.
TFW… your pension investment management corp. has an ESG Governance Policy, ESG Principles, ESG Strategy, ESG Annual Report, ESG webpage, ESG budget… and still invests 100s of $millions for years in Big Tobacco, Kremlin-backed oil companies, and International Sponsors of War 🤷♂️
January 28, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Indeed.
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And while kinda hard to boycott US as someone living there, I’m trying to buy more Canadian stuff (most of which was never on my radar). Just ordered some Stanfield’s winter gear, made in Truro NS where some of my ancestors are from.
If you haven’t done so already, please boycott US products as much as possible and not travel there (and encourage your friends/family to do the same). The Trump regime has been repeatedly threatening 🇨🇦 too, and so in return Canadians have inflicted severe financial pain by cutting travel + imports.
Elbows up in 2025: How a year of Canadian boycotts on U.S. products played out | CBC News
Here are a few of the ways Canadians tried to put more power behind their purchase and travel choices in 2025 — and how those decisions may have impacted the U.S. economy.
www.cbc.ca
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
And while kinda hard to boycott US as someone living there, I’m trying to buy more Canadian stuff (most of which was never on my radar). Just ordered some Stanfield’s winter gear, made in Truro NS where some of my ancestors are from.
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Precisely. Not safe, and not ethical either.
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?
-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?
January 29, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Precisely. Not safe, and not ethical either.
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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...
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 27, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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NP! And CPP Investment Board is also apparently cool with Palantir + the Gestapo…
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...
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 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
NP! And CPP Investment Board is also apparently cool with Palantir + the Gestapo…
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100% - divestment from the US is a moral obligation at this point (and a fiduciary one). Starting to compile examples in👇 thread.
DIVEST FROM FASCISTS
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension just said it would sell off its U.S. Treasuries, worth ~$100 million, by the end of January. It attributed the move to weak U.S. government finances, but it seems hard to believe Trump‘s demented threats weren’t a factor. Will others follow?
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension just said it would sell off its U.S. Treasuries, worth ~$100 million, by the end of January. It attributed the move to weak U.S. government finances, but it seems hard to believe Trump‘s demented threats weren’t a factor. Will others follow?
Danish pension fund to divest its U.S. Treasuries
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension said on Tuesday it would sell off its holding of U.S. Treasuries, worth some $100 million, by the end of this month, blaming weak U.S. government finances.
www.reuters.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:19 PM
100% - divestment from the US is a moral obligation at this point (and a fiduciary one). Starting to compile examples in👇 thread.
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Yep - add this to all the aggressively stupid rhetoric in the NSS about Europe (and interfering there), which was implicitly about Canada. There’s no time to lose - Canada needs to become a porcupine as fast as possible.
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
January 24, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Yep - add this to all the aggressively stupid rhetoric in the NSS about Europe (and interfering there), which was implicitly about Canada. There’s no time to lose - Canada needs to become a porcupine as fast as possible.
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Hey @stewartprest.ca - on the dangers of foreign interference + fifth columnists in Alberta, did you see expert opinion commissioned by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation? Link and excerpts in @nigelb.bsky.social thread below.
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Hey @stewartprest.ca - on the dangers of foreign interference + fifth columnists in Alberta, did you see expert opinion commissioned by Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation? Link and excerpts in @nigelb.bsky.social thread below.
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Yes - kudos to Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and @orlaghokelly.bsky.social indeed!
January 17, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Yes - kudos to Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and @orlaghokelly.bsky.social indeed!
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Thanks for sharing - disturbing indeed. Very glad that they asked Wark to weigh-in, and then shared his views. For anyone watching, Smith + UCP and their fellow travellers have been concerning for a long time, as witting and/or unwitting tools of foreign interference in Canada.
High-fives all around in both the Kremlin and Mar-a-Lago as Smith + the Alberta separatist 5th columnists undermine Canada. The ‘U’ in UCP stands for ‘Useful Idiots”.
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.
January 17, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Thanks for sharing - disturbing indeed. Very glad that they asked Wark to weigh-in, and then shared his views. For anyone watching, Smith + UCP and their fellow travellers have been concerning for a long time, as witting and/or unwitting tools of foreign interference in Canada.
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💯 Fascist Russia (like its client state, the US) has every reason to be happy with Smith + other UCP/separatist quislings: what better than a 5th column to weaken 🇨🇦, one of the strongest remaining democracies and biggest 🇺🇦 supporters? Plus, being so ignorant + venal, they are likely very malleable.
Indeed. And seems entirely likely that fascist Russia is fuelling this Alberta separatist BS behind the scenes to weaken Canada. (Just like Brexit, Trump, convoy, etc.) Smith has a history of mainlining 🇷🇺 disinfo👇 and loves Putin apologists like Peterson. She + Alberta Cons = ultimate useful idiots.
Alberta Premier Smith apologizes for past comments on Russian invasion of Ukraine | CBC News
Days after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s comments about the Russian war on Ukraine came to light, the UCP leader has issued an apology.
www.cbc.ca
September 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
💯 Fascist Russia (like its client state, the US) has every reason to be happy with Smith + other UCP/separatist quislings: what better than a 5th column to weaken 🇨🇦, one of the strongest remaining democracies and biggest 🇺🇦 supporters? Plus, being so ignorant + venal, they are likely very malleable.
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Evergreen question.
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?
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.
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Evergreen question.