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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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Law school exam question: you are counsel for CPP and they ask for a memo on whether profits of the fund or of individual plan holders could be seized under federal or BC proceeds of crime legislation. Presume ICE has committed crimes. (20 mins, 750 word max)
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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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
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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.“
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
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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.)
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
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This piece from @admiralstav.bsky.social is quite rational and calm in its approach to the question of European defense without the US
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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"They are bringing to bear the considerable power of the online Russian troll farms and MAGA influencers to create an artificial 'Maple MAGA' movement in Canada that looks a lot like the Luhansk and Donetsk 'People’s Republics' in Ukraine." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
SPOT THE OP: ‘Separatist’ Zombie Armies — A New Bette Dangerous Series

In the first of my new ‘Spot the Op’ series, I focus on ‘separatist’ movements as part of Russian-funded active measures to weaken and overthrow democracies, giving cover for imperialist invasions
SPOT THE OP: ‘Separatist’ Zombie Armies — A New Bette Dangerous Series
In the first of my new ‘Spot the Op’ series, I focus on ‘separatist’ movements as part of Russian-funded active measures to weaken and overthrow democracies, giving cover for imperialist invasions
www.bettedangerous.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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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
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...
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
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But just think of how stressful it is to be an SS-Oberführer these days!
January 27, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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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
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Hopefully soon! Canada has got to move faster.
In the meantime, a lot of the advice in the Nordic ones is generally applicable, and they are available in other languages including French and English. For instance Finland’s digital brochure (link👇).
In 2024, 🇫🇮 updated its digital brochure “preparing for incidents + crises”, with lots of info on preparedness for: long power + water outages; long disruptions in internet/banking services; natural phenomena like storms + wildfires; and longer-term crises like a pandemic or military conflict. 7/x
Preparing for incidents and crises - Suomi.fi
Preparing allows you to be ready for various incidents, such as power and water outages or cyberattacks, as well as crisis situations.
www.suomi.fi
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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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 $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir.
See posts👇
Excellent day to note that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans (covering ~775,000 British Columbians) have big $$ 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.)
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
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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...
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
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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
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
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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
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Yes indeed - Smith + UCP + the rest of the separatists are clearly 5th columnists. We need to be clear-eyed about this, and act accordingly, if we want Canada to remain sovereign and democratic.
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 30, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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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.”
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
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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. 🤷
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
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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.)
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
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Excellent - thanks for this @heathermcpherson.bsky.social - on a related note, might be interested to know that CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir. 👇
A grim day to note that Canada Pension Plan Investments has ~$264M in PALANTIR, which is enabling muderous ICE + its horrific terror campaign. Pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy!!! (see👆post re BCI)
Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...
The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’
A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.
www.politico.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Hi @brenttoderian.bsky.social - might be interested to know that both BCI + CPP Investment Board seem to be cool with using millions of our BC and Canada pension $$ to invest in the Gestapo’s favourite company, Palantir. Here’s more on CPPIB…. 1/x
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...
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 30, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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The paradox of tolerance
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.”
January 30, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Hey @djdynamic.ca - seems that pressure is spreading for pension funds to drop Palantir - here’s story from New Jersey (same in NYC too, apparently). Hope CPPIB + BCI + other Canadian funds are paying attention.
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 30, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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"...Trump has used eerily analogous phrasing to Putin’s in claiming that Canada “isn’t viable as a country” and the border between the US and Canada is artificial."
A Lesson for Alberta from Ukraine: Trump and Putin are Strategic Bedfellows - Policy Magazine
While the most obvious feature of Donald Trump's assault on global power arrangements is the fomenting of chaos to produce narrative dominance, there are
www.policymagazine.ca
January 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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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!
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
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Don't buy American.
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 30, 2026 at 2:08 AM