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

Great news!!! Likely the prospect of losing massive taxpayer subsidies helped focus minds at Drax.

Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

Good news! Drax to stop clearcutting BC forests for wood pellet power in UK (which is worse for our climate than coal, and diverts wood from other uses that provide way more jobs & value per tree). But Drax may try to export to other countries! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bcpoli #axedrax

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#StandWithUkraine

"Canada is at war with the US". The sooner we wake up to this reality, the better.

Precisely. 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”.

Thanks for standing with Ukraine @hedyfry.bsky.social !
You might be interested to know that fascist 🇷🇺 relies on 6 special LNG tanker ships managed by Seapeak Maritime (Glasgow), which are co-owned by Seapeak LLC, with HQ in VANCOUVER !!! Such fossil exports fund its barbarous war against Ukraine.🇨🇦🇺🇦

Great point. And one more excellent reason for Canada to accelerate support for Ukraine and strengthen sanctions on fascist Russia.
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Indeed. You’ll be shocked to hear that FIFA is also a fan of fascist Russia.

Pollice Verso (from Latin: with a turned thumb) is an 1872 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiator.

A sick regime.

National Service to Support Community and National Security: A preliminary outline of components, implementation, and costs A policy brief prepared for the Office of the Prime Minister for the development of a National Service initiative.

The article above mentions an August 2025 policy brief from the @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social outlining the parameters of a potential “National Service initiative” (including costs). The aim would be to “engage Canadians in a whole-of-society response to a broad spectrum of emerging threats.” 37/x

Indeed. And two pension investment managers in 🇨🇦 directly own big % of Thames Water - widely seen as a massive cautionary tale, both about the privatization of utilities (which the UK did a lot of, and now regrets), and the investment in such utilities by pensions. OMERS owns 32% and BCI owns 8.7%.

Very true - the massive backlog of deferred maintenance + problems appears likely to take decades to fix. A big part of the problem seems to be the pension funds + other investors were taking too much $$ out - not leaving enough with TW for proper asset management. They had very different interests!

100% Sachs is terrible - the fact he appears on Russian state TV with rabid propagandists is proof enough that he’s happily complicit.

Resuming our 🧵 about the perils of LNG, this new report from @investors4paris.bsky.social details the $$ risks for investors, including pensions, which “are often heavily invested in LNG projects through private equity funds.“ ”In the LNG Casino, the game is rigged, and the equity holders pay.“ 5/x

Building on the above posts about how LNG is poison for people + the planet, here’s a great way👇to tell the federal government and your local MP to stop funding LNG!!!
@forourkidsalberta.bsky.social @forourkidscanada.bsky.social 6/x

Well said. It’s completely beyond the pale.

Excellent point. From fascist Russia to the Gulf dictatorships to the MAGA-aligned oil+gas firms in Canada and the US, every $ we spend on fossil fuels supports enemies of democracy + human rights.

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Russian ice hockey player and gold medalist of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games Ivan Telegin after presenting him with the Order of Friendship during an award ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Feb. 28, 2018. Grigory Dukor/EPA via Shutterstock

Exactly. It’s no different than fascist Putin presenting hockey gold medalist of the 2018 Winter Olympics Ivan Telegin with the Order of Friendship during an award ceremony at the Kremlin.

Outrageous indeed. And besides doubling down on climate arson, CPP Investment Board is cool with the Gestapo’s favourite firm, Palantir, and other fascist-friendly firms.
(As are BCI and other pension fund investment managers in Canada.)

Your SPECIAL DAILY REMINDER - 4 years since fascist 🇷🇺 launched its full-scale invasion of our ally 🇺🇦 - that #FossilFuelsFundFascists !!!
Time for EU countries to stop buying Russian oil + gas and bankrolling the Kremlin!!!
(And please make sure to follow @razomwestand.bsky.social👇)

Hey 🦋 antI-fascists! Four years into Ukraine’s resistance against fascist Russia’s full-scale invasion, it’s vitally important that we redouble support for our ally! Ukrainians are defending us all. Here are some small examples👇of ways you can help - there are many others! 🇺🇦🇨🇦
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Exactly. There’s no time to lose - Canada needs to become a porcupine as fast as possible, drawing lessons from the Nordics and others. (And for such an existential risk, far better to be extra-prudent!)

For those who care to see, Smith‘s whole game is completely obvious.

(1/3) And again, FURTHER TO THE BELOW: www.ft.com/content/001a...

Agreed. The various rationales offered are both incoherent and inchoate - devoid of any semblance of an over-arching strategy that would benefit US national security, let alone international peace and security. This is not just a war of choice, but one of narcissistic whim: "Because *I* can."

A large crowd on day 465 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.
Today’s rally is called “Strength is in Unity,” Georgia’s national motto, following the formation of an alliance among opposition parties.

Day 464 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.

What a powerful mural at Ilia State University in Tbilisi: Ilia Chavchavadze—19th-century writer, statesman, and one of the architects of modern Georgian political identity—walking toward a door painted as the EU flag.

One EU star is missing; Ilia holds one bearing the Georgian flag. 🇬🇪🇪🇺

His name was Hordiy Udovychenko.
He was killed on the night of March 7, 2026, alongside his mother Olena.
He was murdered by the russians for being Ukrainian, just as the Nazis assassinated Jewish children for being Jews.
And because we, in the West, did not want to take action.
Unbearable.

👉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...