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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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Absolutely reprehensible for CPP to be investing in this.
In 2019, I was part of a campaign to pressure CPP to divest from American for-profit prison company GEO group due to their abuses with ICE. We won. It's time to put that pressure on again. We must not be complicit with fascism.
In 2019, I was part of a campaign to pressure CPP to divest from American for-profit prison company GEO group due to their abuses with ICE. We won. It's time to put that pressure on again. We must not be complicit with fascism.
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 25, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Absolutely reprehensible for CPP to be investing in this.
In 2019, I was part of a campaign to pressure CPP to divest from American for-profit prison company GEO group due to their abuses with ICE. We won. It's time to put that pressure on again. We must not be complicit with fascism.
In 2019, I was part of a campaign to pressure CPP to divest from American for-profit prison company GEO group due to their abuses with ICE. We won. It's time to put that pressure on again. We must not be complicit with fascism.
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Time to contact your MP!
#cdnpoli #polcan
Seriously, pick a topic, and give them a phone call or email.
Use this opportunity to vent some anger.
Tell your elected representatives what matters to you and why Canada should not be investing in the US war machine.
www.ourcommons.ca/en/contact-us
#cdnpoli #polcan
Seriously, pick a topic, and give them a phone call or email.
Use this opportunity to vent some anger.
Tell your elected representatives what matters to you and why Canada should not be investing in the US war machine.
www.ourcommons.ca/en/contact-us
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Time to contact your MP!
#cdnpoli #polcan
Seriously, pick a topic, and give them a phone call or email.
Use this opportunity to vent some anger.
Tell your elected representatives what matters to you and why Canada should not be investing in the US war machine.
www.ourcommons.ca/en/contact-us
#cdnpoli #polcan
Seriously, pick a topic, and give them a phone call or email.
Use this opportunity to vent some anger.
Tell your elected representatives what matters to you and why Canada should not be investing in the US war machine.
www.ourcommons.ca/en/contact-us
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Hey 🦋 friends! With all of the demented threats from the White House, it’s important to not lose sight of our democratic ally Ukraine and its fight to defend the free world against fascist Russia! Here are some small examples👇 of things everyone can consider doing to help! 🇺🇦🇨🇦
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain
Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦
Idea 1: Read, share and subscribe to Ukraine-based media, like the @kyivindependent.com Co-founded by a group of journalists in late 2021, it’s a great source of reporting + investigations about 🇺🇦, its fight for survival, and related European + global issues.
Idea 1: Read, share and subscribe to Ukraine-based media, like the @kyivindependent.com Co-founded by a group of journalists in late 2021, it’s a great source of reporting + investigations about 🇺🇦, its fight for survival, and related European + global issues.
January 25, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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Boycott the N American World Cup. America has invaded Venezuela and is currently actively threatening to invade and kill citizens of Canada, Greenland and Denmark. Boycott all American goods, services, sports, where you can. Do not finance their fascism.
And there’s a great precedent for boycotting a major sports event because the host dictatorship is invading other countries.
Luckily, as ever, our friend History offers us a useful precedent to consider - and here’s what the US STATE DEPARTMENT has to say about it:
“In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.”
“In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.”
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Boycott the N American World Cup. America has invaded Venezuela and is currently actively threatening to invade and kill citizens of Canada, Greenland and Denmark. Boycott all American goods, services, sports, where you can. Do not finance their fascism.
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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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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
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)
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Oh, bad move Canada 😡 time to dump this toxic company, nothing is worse than 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 27, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Oh, bad move Canada 😡 time to dump this toxic company, nothing is worse than Palantir.
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Would almost be laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous for Canada at this perilous point in history.
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 27, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Would almost be laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous for Canada at this perilous point in history.
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Exactly right.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Long past time to ditch X.
It’s like if we’d allowed widespread publication of Das Reich in WW2 or helped amplify Radio Moscow during the Cold War. (AND if our governments were at the same using those same channels to share info). It’s bananas.
Long past time to ditch X.
It’s like if we’d allowed widespread publication of Das Reich in WW2 or helped amplify Radio Moscow during the Cold War. (AND if our governments were at the same using those same channels to share info). It’s bananas.
Seems like a good day to re-post this. All public institutions in Canada, including CBC and every level of government, should ditch Xitter immediately - it’s a racist, fascist filth factory run by Nazi-loving Apartheid Clyde.
January 24, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Exactly right.
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US citizen here. PLEASE divest and whatever else it takes to help yourselves and spank the spoiled brat administration!
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 11:58 PM
US citizen here. PLEASE divest and whatever else it takes to help yourselves and spank the spoiled brat administration!
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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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…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
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
…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.☃️
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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
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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, …
HI @m31author.bsky.social - wanted to say thanks very much for the reposts recently! Much appreciated!
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 AM
HI @m31author.bsky.social - wanted to say thanks very much for the reposts recently! Much appreciated!
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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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Not a bad chance. This article points to 2 MORE pension funds (one that has already dropped US bonds and the other is considering how to reduce US exposure), beyond the 2 listed above.
Danish investors shun the US but complete divestment ‘unlikely’ - Top1000funds.com
Danish pension investors are pulling capital out of US Treasuries amid tensions around Greenland, but a complete divestment from the world’s biggest market will hurt Danish funds’ performance and ulti...
www.top1000funds.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Not a bad chance. This article points to 2 MORE pension funds (one that has already dropped US bonds and the other is considering how to reduce US exposure), beyond the 2 listed above.
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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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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.
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
May 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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.
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Quite possibly - check out the much larger amount of US bonds dropped by a Swedish pension in 2025 in story below. Plus 2 more are detailed in the post further down. Apparently corruption + fascism + incompetence don’t inspire investor confidence. 🤷
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 24, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Quite possibly - check out the much larger amount of US bonds dropped by a Swedish pension in 2025 in story below. Plus 2 more are detailed in the post further down. Apparently corruption + fascism + incompetence don’t inspire investor confidence. 🤷
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It’s inexcusable. Here’s a list of the top European countries that continue to buy fossil fuels from fascist Russia.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM
It’s inexcusable. Here’s a list of the top European countries that continue to buy fossil fuels from fascist Russia.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
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On a related note… CPP Investment Board is apparently cool with Palantir and 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 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM
On a related note… CPP Investment Board is apparently cool with Palantir and the Gestapo.
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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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That’s a good summary of how we feel. CPPIB isn’t the only big pension fund investor in Canada to hold Palantir though - BCI does too👇 (likely others as well).
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 27, 2026 at 1:27 AM
That’s a good summary of how we feel. CPPIB isn’t the only big pension fund investor in Canada to hold Palantir though - BCI does too👇 (likely others as well).