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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 6d

💯 Canada needs to learn from the Nordics and become a porcupine, fast!

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3d

A big THANK YOU to our new 🦋 friends!!! The posts👇 give some basic background about BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans, and their investments. TL;DR - our pensions have big $$ in firms that are cooking the planet, funding fascists, and complicit in war crimes. Oh, and Big Tobacco. Spread the word!

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Nov 17

Why should you care about how BC Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests? It manages ~$250 BILLION in assets, mainly on behalf of 10 public sector pension plans, including the BC Public Service Pension Plan, Municipal Pension Plan (also includes nurses + many others), Teachers’ Pension Plan…

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3d

The EU and NATO need to bypass Hungary. Ukraine would be a MUCH better member of both organizations.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 24

💯 Orban is a corrupt fascist leading Hungary backwards, and a cancer in the heart of Europe. The 🇪🇺 + NATO would be much better with 🇺🇦 in, and 🇭🇺 out. And Hungary’s continued purchase of Russian fossil fuels is all about fealty to Moscow, not economic or technical barriers (same for Slovakia). ⬇️

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Aug 19

Ukraine struck a Russian oil station, halting crude flows to Hungary and Slovakia.

Research from @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social and creacleanair.bsky.social clearly shows that both countries could replace Russian oil imports immediately via Croatia and the Adria pipeline.

So why don’t they? ⤵️

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3d

And a good time to note that 750,000 or so British Columbians unwittingly have their public sector pensions heavily invested in ExxonMobil (and lots of other fossil firms). 🌍🔥

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Jan 22

Fun fact! BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have ~$75.32M in ExxonMobil, the climate arsonist that owns 70% of Imperial Oil. See @shiftaction.bsky.social 👇 on absurdity of pension plans claiming "engagement" is helping Imperial improve its enviro oversight, reduce GHGs and align with net-zero.

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Jan 21

1/ The Alberta Energy Regulator has laid nine charges against Imperial Oil after the company leaked an estimated 5.3 million litres of oil sands tailings and toxic chemicals into Alberta waterways from its Kearl oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

Engler is also the only one who carries water for war criminal Putin and fascist Russia.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 5

A quick search shows that Engler himself is a huge spreader of pro-Russian disinfo + anti-Ukraine lies, in writings, videos, and an interview on fascist state organ RT. To be so utterly wrong about one of the most morally clear wars of our time is entirely disqualifying for this useful idiot. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil revenue to bankroll its evil war against our democratic ally Ukraine🇺🇦.
Why is Taiwan🇹🇼 importing 🇷🇺 naphtha + coal??? See the helpful @creacleanair.bsky.social thread👇for more info.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 9d

🇷🇺🛢️NEW | Report: Taiwan's average monthly imports of Russian naphtha spiked nearly 6x between 2022 and H1 2025 to USD 1.3 bn, making Taiwan the world’s top importer

W/ Isaac Levi, Luke Wickenden, Hsin Hsuan Sun, Mark Pojen Hsu, Vladimir Slivyak

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

ANOTHER great addition to our list of pension funds taking a better approach to investing! Japan’s giant Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is looking at shifting to impact investing, reasoning that “targeting environmental and social outcomes ultimately strengthens economic growth.” 👍🇯🇵

ESG News Recap: Biggest Pension Fund Begins Impact Investing

A pivot in ESG strategy by the world’s largest pension fund in Japan could reshape sentiment across global markets.

impakter.com

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 1d

Likely has a lot to do with wider impacts of war, e.g. economic dislocation, sanctions, resource diversion to military + labour shortages. (Though of course climate change surely doesn’t help.)
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Aug 18

“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

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 1d

Good call. Perhaps less catchy, but “Walking Policy Failure” also works.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 22h

…firm’s many performance + governance issues. “We are concerned that the Board remains fixated on pleasing Mr. Musk, rather than responsibly addressing his many varied pursuits, at least some of which have come at the expense of Tesla shareholders.” Time for pension plans in 🇨🇦 to ditch this 🍋! 15/x

Tesla Shareholders Told To Reject Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package

A shareholder battle is brewing over the proposed $1 trillion U.S. pay package being offered to Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. Major Tesla shareholders, led by the New York City employee pension fund...

www.baystreet.ca

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Resuming our thread highlighting the growing number of pension funds that are sick of investing in Tesla: several big US pension funds are trying to replace the board and stop a potential $1 Trillion(!) pay package for the Nazi-loving, USAID cutting, sociopathic CEO. The letter details the…. 14/x

Pension funds call to vote down Musk's $1T pay package, replace Tesla board

A group representing several large pension funds sent a letter with concerns about Tesla's board, opposing its proposals.

electrek.co

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2h

Related to the above, in case either of you hadn’t yet seen this short thread with article below…

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

Yves Engler is explicitly soliciting funds for his NDP leadership campaign citing Elections Canada rules yet includes an asterisk: "*donations are not tax deductible"

Why would funds for a leadership campaign collected under Elections Canada rules *not* be eligible for tax deductions?

Yvews Engler campaign website:

"Donate by Interac e-Transfer:

To donate through Interac, please make the donation through your financial institution to yvesenglerndp@gmail.com.

Important: In order for us to accept these funds as required by Elections Canada, you must also complete the form below (the maximum donation amount is $1,750):

* Donations are not tax-deductible."

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BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 1d

Success! 🏦 Following BankTrack’s engagement, Nordea updated its Green Funding Framework — excluding fossil hydrogen with carbon capture and storage from its definition of renewable energy. A notable move in the fight against greenwashing. ⬇️

www.banktrack.org/success/bank...

Bank Policy Scan: Nordea excludes fossil-based hydrogen with CCS from green funding

The policy change On April 3, 2025, Nordea (Finland) updated its Green Funding Framework, excluding some “false solutions” from its green finance framework. The previous version…

www.banktrack.org

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 1h

Continuing our fun thread ”LNG is Poison for People + the Planet”, here’s a look👇 at an LNG plant’s horrifying impact on local air quality in Texas.

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 16d

🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z...

#TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 1h

Continuing our fun thread ”LNG is Poison for People + the Planet”, here’s a look👇 at an LNG plant’s horrifying impact on local air quality in Texas.

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 16d

🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z...

#TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 15d

Agreed. Same goes for many of Canada‘s biggest public sector pension plan investment managers - like CPPIB, AIMCo and BCI - who continue to invest BILLION$ in climate arson and fascist-friendly fossil firms. Looking forward to a toasty retirement! 🤷

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Feb 20

Hey 🦋 friends - check out the 2024 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card from @shiftaction.bsky.social
Another bad grade for BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans! Is a C- really the best you can do in a climate emergency?🚨 That’s second-WORST in class. Pension 💵 won’t mean much if the 🌍 is 🔥 1/x

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Feb 19

Today Shift released its annual Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, an independent benchmark for evaluating the quality, depth and credibility of climate policies for 11 of Canada’s largest pension managers, collectively managing $2.4 trillion in retirement savings.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 11d

💯 Not safe or ethical to travel to the US. Besides, there are a million great places to see in Canada and other countries that aren’t threatening us.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 25

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?

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 9d

Fascist Russia depends on a shadow fleet to export fossil fuels - this helps fund Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine and its increasingly brazen attacks and sabotage across Europe. Well past time for Ukraine‘s allies to fully sanction the shadow fleet!
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · 13d

Sanctioning Russia's shadow fleet vessels has been strikingly effective. But too few ships appear on multiple sanctions lists — and Moscow exploits the gap.

The EU has announced plans to blacklist 118 more vessels in its 19th sanctions package. Yet there have been no new US designations this year.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 9d

In the face of such fickleness, betrayal and grifting by fossil firms, it’s incredible that certain premiers and Cons continue to believe (or lie) that renewables are “unreliable”.
Add this to the long list of reasons BCI + other 🇨🇦 pension fund investment managers should quit Exxon + Imperial Oil!👇

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Jan 22

Fun fact! BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have ~$75.32M in ExxonMobil, the climate arsonist that owns 70% of Imperial Oil. See @shiftaction.bsky.social 👇 on absurdity of pension plans claiming "engagement" is helping Imperial improve its enviro oversight, reduce GHGs and align with net-zero.

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Jan 21

1/ The Alberta Energy Regulator has laid nine charges against Imperial Oil after the company leaked an estimated 5.3 million litres of oil sands tailings and toxic chemicals into Alberta waterways from its Kearl oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 9d

Further to the👆post, it’s worth highlighting AkademikerPension’s rationale: “The decision is based on an assessment that the ongoing conflict is not being conducted in accordance with international principles of proportionality, the
protection of civilians, and access to impartial humanitarian aid.”

akademikerpension.dk

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 13d

Adding to the growing wave of divestment from both Israel and firms doing business with Israel, AkademikerPension - a big 🇩🇰 pension fund manager - announced that it is “excluding Israeli state assets, including government-controlled companies, from its investment portfolio… due to the war in Gaza.”

Danish pension fund drops Israeli investments over human rights concerns

Danish fund manager AkademikerPension is excluding Israeli state assets, including government-controlled companies, from its investment portfolio, it said on Wednesday, due to the war in Gaza and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

www.reuters.com

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Graphic showing how a Chinook wind forms over the mountains.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 5h

Important read here:

Fracking's Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC.

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50% in 2024. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Fracking’s Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC | The Tyee

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

thetyee.ca

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

In Frog we trust.

Poster of the Portland frog with “RESIST” printed at the bottom.

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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 16d

🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z...

#TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas
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