Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!

Time too for BCI and other 🇨🇦 pension fund managers to divest from all companies that are complicit in Israel’s brutality and crimes against Palestinians! Everyone ask your pension funds where your $ is invested! Examples👇

And here’s another look - this time in Japan - at the calamitous downstream impacts of LNG. Not clean, not green, not needed.

It’s always a good day to support democratic Ukraine as it defends the free world against fascist Russia!!! Here are some small but useful things everyone can consider doing to help our ally Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇨🇦
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Fun fact: BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have big $$ in the Indian refiner buying huge amounts of oil from fascist Russia.👇 (Likely other 🇨🇦 pension plans do too.) Yet more proof of a “robust” ESG framework!

Why Canada Should Join the EU - Macleans.ca My family is half-Canadian, half-European. Maybe our country should be too.

Resuming our 🇪🇺🇨🇦 thread:
“Canada + the EU belong together. We share something rare: a worldview built on co-operation, not coercion. Things like multilateralism + a rules-based system; protection of human rights + democracy; and the importance of climate action + sustainability. Also, the cheese.”👇

Well put! Shifting $$ away from bad things like fossil fuels and towards good things like renewables is critical. Example of $$ going wrong way: BCI is by far the biggest financial force in BC, managing ~$295 BILLION(!) of public sector pensions/other assets, yet invests massively in climate arson.

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German asset manager divests Exxon shares over ‘insufficient’ climate commitment Union Investment sold out of US oil major and smaller peer EOG Resources after review

Great news ⬇️ But why then do BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans still have ~$75.32M in Exxon, the largest US oil + gas firm, and poster-child for environmental calamity (see Exxon Valdez), GHG emissions, and climate change denial? Pretty sure more “engagement” isn’t going to change Exxon’s mind.

As detailed in the👆posts, Canada and other democracies are not doing nearly enough to punish fascist Russia for its terrible crimes against Ukraine. Time for much stronger and comprehensive sanctions!!!
@razomwestand.bsky.social @b4ukraine.org @creacleanair.bsky.social

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil fuel exports to fund its barbarous war against democratic 🇺🇦Ukraine. And it’s not just European countries buying Russian oil + gas - 🇦🇺Australia does too! $2.5billion since Feb 2023. Shameful! @creacleanair.bsky.social
#FossilFuelsFundFascists

Hey British Columbia teachers, nurses, university + college staff, and 700,000+ other public sector workers and retirees! This👇 is essential reading if you care how BCI is investing your BC public sector pensions. TL;DR - BCI has big $$ in fossil fuels + isn’t taking the climate crisis seriously.🔥🌎

And here’s yet another example👇 of a big public pension plan taking climate change seriously! Why are so many big pension fund managers in 🇨🇦, like BCI and CPPIB, pretending that they can’t divest from fossil fuels?

This is amazing. And important.

💯 Hope that having such high-profile voices involved will encourage more people to learn about how their own pension plans are fuelling climate change.

#TaxTheRich #EndOligarchy #RestorePublicPower - #Genocide #Lobby #Silencing #Protests

BP makes biggest find in 25 years as it refocuses on fossil fuels The announcement comes as the UK-based energy giant refocuses its business on fossil fuels.

Bastards.

Vandals.

Criminals.

🇨🇦 You're welcome. Money makes the world go around so we need to invest wisely to save the 🌎 and ourselves.
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💯 Have been saying the same! Would CBC or other 🇨🇦 agencies have published stories in Das Reich in WW2 or worked with Radio Moscow during the Cold War?

Remember: EVERY single part of Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine is ILLEGAL. EVERY single bullet fired, bomb dropped, person killed - is a CRIME. There is not a single legitimate target for Russia in Ukraine. Not one. The war is illegal in every way, and every act is a crime.

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

Well put! Shifting $$ away from bad things like fossil fuels and towards good things like renewables is critical. Example of $$ going wrong way: BCI is by far the biggest financial force in BC, managing ~$295 BILLION(!) of public sector pensions/other assets, yet invests massively in climate arson.

There is no lack of money, only a lack of #TaxJustice. This is a historic opportunity for countries to fix the global tax rules to deliver social, climate and environmental action.

@kathleenwester.bsky.social - wanted to say thanks 🙏 for all the reposts!!! Really appreciate it. 🙂

Indeed.

BCI + ESG = GREENWASHING (Episode #294)
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BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans claim to “engage” with firms to support climate action. Yet at the June AGM, BCI voted AGAINST a shareholder proposal seeking clarity in Brookfield’s definition of “transition” assets.👇 BCI has ~$115M in Brookfield.

Very! Thanks for sharing.

Meanwhile, big public sector pension plans in 🇨🇦, including the CPP and those in BC and Alberta , are fanning the flames and doubling down on climate arson.👇

Since it seems about 35% more relevant now, we’re re-sharing this thread about how Canada can resist US aggression. 🇨🇦🍁

Glad it’s of interest :) Very frustrating and disappointing that so many immoral companies continue doing business with fascist Russia. AND that so many big pension plans effectively condone this by investing in these companies. If you can stomach it, here’s a thread👇with over a dozen examples.

💯 Hope that having such high-profile voices involved will encourage more people to learn about how their own pension plans are fuelling climate change.