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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 #2
On the heels of yesterday‘s news 👆 that a 🇩🇰 pension fund was dumping its US Treasuries, it now emerges that 🇸🇪 pension fund Alecta “reportedly sold between $7.7 billion and $8.8 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds over the course of last year.”
On the heels of yesterday‘s news 👆 that a 🇩🇰 pension fund was dumping its US Treasuries, it now emerges that 🇸🇪 pension fund Alecta “reportedly sold between $7.7 billion and $8.8 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds over the course of last year.”
Second Pension Fund Dumps U.S. Treasury Holdings as Trump Spirals
Donald Trump’s unpredictability has sent at least two countries running.
newrepublic.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 AM
DIVEST FROM FASCISTS #2
On the heels of yesterday‘s news 👆 that a 🇩🇰 pension fund was dumping its US Treasuries, it now emerges that 🇸🇪 pension fund Alecta “reportedly sold between $7.7 billion and $8.8 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds over the course of last year.”
On the heels of yesterday‘s news 👆 that a 🇩🇰 pension fund was dumping its US Treasuries, it now emerges that 🇸🇪 pension fund Alecta “reportedly sold between $7.7 billion and $8.8 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds over the course of last year.”
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DIVEST FROM FASCISTS #3
Further to the posts above comes news that Europe‘s largest pension fund (ABP 🇳🇱) seems to have significantly cut its US Treasury holdings last year.
Apparently corruption + fascism + incompetence don’t inspire investor confidence. 🤷
Further to the posts above comes news that Europe‘s largest pension fund (ABP 🇳🇱) seems to have significantly cut its US Treasury holdings last year.
Apparently corruption + fascism + incompetence don’t inspire investor confidence. 🤷
Largest European pension fund ABP cut back US Treasury holdings last year
The value of the U.S. Treasuries held by Dutch pension fund ABP, Europe's largest, dropped steeply from the end of 2024 to September last year, another sign that major European investors have grown ...
www.reuters.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:34 PM
DIVEST FROM FASCISTS #3
Further to the posts above comes news that Europe‘s largest pension fund (ABP 🇳🇱) seems to have significantly cut its US Treasury holdings last year.
Apparently corruption + fascism + incompetence don’t inspire investor confidence. 🤷
Further to the posts above comes news that Europe‘s largest pension fund (ABP 🇳🇱) seems to have significantly cut its US Treasury holdings last year.
Apparently corruption + fascism + incompetence don’t inspire investor confidence. 🤷
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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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Disgraceful. On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
See posts👇
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ 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 28, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Disgraceful. On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
See posts👇
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Agreed. CPPIB, BCI, AIMCo and other pension fund investment managers in Canada are sinking TENS OF BILLION$ into climate arsonists and fascist-friendly firms, thereby destroying the very futures we are meant to one day retire in.
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Agreed. CPPIB, BCI, AIMCo and other pension fund investment managers in Canada are sinking TENS OF BILLION$ into climate arsonists and fascist-friendly firms, thereby destroying the very futures we are meant to one day retire in.
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Disgraceful. On a related note, might be interested to know that CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ 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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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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Totally agreed. This thread 👇 summarizes approach in several countries to preparing for crises of all sorts, and recent thinking about how Canada can become more resilient.
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 26, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Totally agreed. This thread 👇 summarizes approach in several countries to preparing for crises of all sorts, and recent thinking about how Canada can become more resilient.
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🇨🇦, let's change this! Call our Min. of Finance, François-Philippe Champagne along with MP today to protest this!
Min. of Finance Ottawa #: 819-538-5291
Min. of Finance Ottawa #: 819-538-5291
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 26, 2026 at 3:21 AM
🇨🇦, let's change this! Call our Min. of Finance, François-Philippe Champagne along with MP today to protest this!
Min. of Finance Ottawa #: 819-538-5291
Min. of Finance Ottawa #: 819-538-5291
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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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Gross.
On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ 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 28, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Gross.
On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
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Indeed. The tech bros in general are a curse. Podcast below interviews Karp’s biographer, and… scary.
…and the IDF (to assist its “war-related missions”).❄️ Two Palantir founders, Chair Peter Thiel + CEO Alex Karp, support Trump’s regime (PT mentored + backed Vance for VP).🛷 Both have scary views at odds with human rights.🎄 Our pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy.☃️
Palantir: the world’s ‘scariest company’? – podcast
How far will tech firm Palantir go to ‘save the West’? With Michael Steinberger and Johana Bhuiyan
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Indeed. The tech bros in general are a curse. Podcast below interviews Karp’s biographer, and… scary.
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Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ invested in PALANTIR, which is enabling the ICE secret police and its horrific terror campaign.
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
Time to divest from fascist-friendly firms!
(See posts👇 from our awful advent calendar.)
December 25: BCI has ~$48.88M in Palantir Technologies Inc, the US tech giant whose AI-powered data-analysis is used by the Gestapo/ICE.🎄 In 2025 it won a $30M contract to build a platform to “streamline” immigrant identification + deportation.🔔 Other clients include the Pentagon, police depts, …
Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ 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.)
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Agreed! FYI below.
Disgraceful. On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
See posts👇
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ 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.)
January 28, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Agreed! FYI below.
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Bruce is using his platform for good ❤️
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Bruce is using his platform for good ❤️
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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That’s “Reichsminister Miller”, to close family and friends.
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 1:40 AM
That’s “Reichsminister Miller”, to close family and friends.
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Exactly. And anyways there are a million great places to see in Canada and other democracies.
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 27, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Exactly. And anyways there are a million great places to see in Canada and other democracies.
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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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Awful. On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
See posts👇
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ 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 28, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Awful. On a related note, might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
See posts👇
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Sue these US companies
🤯 Russia is using US-made tech to run its battlefield networks.
An investigation says equipment from California-based Ubiquiti is widely seen at Russian positions, supporting communications and drone operations along the front in Ukraine.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
An investigation says equipment from California-based Ubiquiti is widely seen at Russian positions, supporting communications and drone operations along the front in Ukraine.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
January 28, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Sue these US companies
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Canadians, we must demand Safe Third Country repeal now!
1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature.
It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money.
The House is voting on it today.
It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money.
The House is voting on it today.
Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms
The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Canadians, we must demand Safe Third Country repeal now!