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

Canada’s prairies, for that matter.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 4d

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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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 18h

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 · Sep 8

Totally. NATO members + EU states have been WAY too slow to support Ukraine, to see fascist Russia for what it is, and to appreciate the scale of the threat. Even now, many in Canada and Europe don’t understand that Ukraine is defending the wider democratic world - the Kremlin is at war with us too!

Canada expresses concerns to Russia after reports of plot to put incendiary devices on planes | CBC News

The government of Canada has expressed concerns directly to Russia following reports that Moscow was behind a plot to put incendiary devices on planes flying to North America.

www.cbc.ca

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Quislings gonna quisling.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Jun 27

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?

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · May 7

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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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 23d

With Apartheid Clyde in the news again for more evilness + hate + greed, seems like an appropriate time to re-share this thread.👇 Everybody tell your pension plans to divest from Tesla!!! 📉🔥

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

We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x

Elon Musk's speech in Germany raises concerns about his increased political meddling abroad | CBC News

Elon Musk's comments at a rally for Germany's far-right AfD party last weekend have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries — including Canada.

www.cbc.ca

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 18d

They are really doing great promo for the World Cup and Olympics. To try to save face, the regime is going to have to bus in red state dullards to fill the stands.

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 · 18d

Yes indeed. Time is short.

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 · 16d

Very! Already bad enough that @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social was wasting so much time on this story last week. And today it was very first piece on radio news, AHEAD of 🇨🇦 recognition of 🇵🇸 and any discussion of a literal genocide underway! Journalistic malpractice. Thanks for good reminder re CRTC!

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

CBC has absolutely got to stop the intellectually lazy, harmful bothsideism. As with christofascists, so with climate change denialists - they don‘t deserve airtime to spew lies and racism. Instead, CBC SHOULD be spending time and effort to expose their BS and educate the public.

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

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.”

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 13d

💯 In case you hadn‘t already seen, @razomwestand.bsky.social is doing great work in this space, including helping Ukraine shift to renewables and working to strengthen sanctions on fascist Russia’s fossil exports.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · Jul 10

Despite 3+ years of missile attacks, 🇺🇦 is advancing on clean energy — 17% of its power now comes from #renewables, keeping hospitals & schools running.

At #URC2025, the EU must turn promises into action.
Read Svitlana Romanko’s op-ed in @euobserver.com 👇

euobserver.com/green-econom...

Beyond rebuilding: The possibilities for solar and wind in Ukraine

With the Ukraine Recovery Conference taking place in Rome on Thursday and Friday, European leaders have the rare chance to rethink Ukraine and Europe's energy strategy simultaneously. This goes far be...

euobserver.com

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 13h

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 · 7d

🇷🇺🛢️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 · 12h

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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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 10h

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

www.cbc.ca

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 11h

5-6 million Ukrainians live under Russian occupation.

The conditions is classified as genocide.

www.euronews.com/culture/2024...

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 12d

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 · 2d

Precisely! Smith, Moe and the rest of the dinosaurs pushing fossil fuels (and actively undermining renewables) have some serious ideological blinders on. (That‘s the charitable explanation - no doubt for many of them, continued support for oil + gas is entirely mercenary.)

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 14h

You spelled “one-way ticket to The Hague” wrong.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 11h

There are dozens of charts just like this one across the vast swaths of transportation & energy. If you're living in an 1800s technology pipeline world, you're living in a delusion.

China installed more than twice as much solar capacity in the first half of 2025 as the rest of the world combined

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 4d

💯 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 · 12h

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 · 6d

Pass/fail test for the federal NDP is whether they ostracize this vile Putin apologist. @ndp.ca

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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