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Beryl Pilkington

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retired professor of nursing & global health

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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 14h
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/15/n...
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Ontario NDP target youth unemployment with climate jobs pitch
If the NDP motion passes, the program could provide up to 10,000 youth aged 18 to 25 with green jobs in municipalities, government agencies, not-for-profits and businesses in Ontario.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes removed.
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/14/o...
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As Canada seeks closer economic ties with the EU, it must go bigger on clean tech
As Canada pursues economic opportunities to help the EU insulate itself against current and future oil crises, we must strengthen our own energy security.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 16h
The hypocrisy in Britain is beyond ridiculous. Sanctioning a book for telling the truth, while looking away as Israel lies and covers up its ongoing genocide. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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Sally Rooney’s stand on Palestine is brave and humane
The Normal People author’s determination to support Palestine Action, even if it means that her books are withdrawn from sale in the UK makes a mockery of Britain’s terrorism laws
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes, we should nationalize Stelco! 💯👇🏾 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Could Canada nationalize Stelco in Hamilton? Ottawa should consider it, legal expert says | CBC News
Stelco has begun laying off workers at their Hamilton steel plant, leading to calls for Ottawa to nationalize the company. Nicolas Lamp, associate professor at the faculty of law and school of policy ...
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"But nobody bikes in Toronto 6 months a year"
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 11/10/2026
To tackle our unity crisis, Carney should look at Trudeau’s '77 Taskforce on Canadian Unity. It found first-past-the-post threatens cohesion by making regions one party monoliths, recommending proportional representation to reflect our true diversity. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | Mark Carney faces the return of national unity politics | CBC News
Before this summer, it had been 30 years since a prime minister had to worry about a provincial referendum to secede. Before this week, it had been more than a decade since a prime minister was faced ...
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Let him be the first to travel to Mars. He could report back in 50 years 🤪
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada.” I think Elon Musk should hurry up and separate himself from planet Earth. In the meantime, everyone should separate themself from Tesla and Starlink, and governments should separate themselves from SpaceX.
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Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform Tuesday to say that he thinks Quebec should become independent and separate from Canada. He also said that Alberta and Saskatchewan sho...
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just signed this petition demanding real climate action at COP31, join me: act.350.org/sign/cop31/?...
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Tell the COP31 Presidencies: Phase Out Fossil Fuels and Deliver a Just Transition
In November, Türkiye and Australia will host this year's UN Climate Talks (COP31). For two weeks, they'll steer the negotiations that decide how fast and how fairly the world moves off coal, oil and g...
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Sarkaria also said secondary streets, such as King Street and College Street, would be better alternatives for the bike lanes". King Street? Secondary?? With all respect, we're seriously questioning whether the minister has seen any of these Toronto roads with his own eyes.
cbc.ca
Ford government to begin ripping out, reconfiguring Toronto bike lanes after appeal court ruling | CBC News
The Ford government is going ahead with bike lane removal and reconfiguration on some of Toronto's busiest roads, the province announced Tuesday.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Private companies know there’s no business case for more pipelines when renewables have never been cheaper, cleaner, and faster to deploy. So the government is investing OUR money instead. Most Canadians agree: NO taxpayer-funded pipelines >> act.gp/3RlAuJq
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Even the oil companies don't want to pay for new pipelines!
Our government shouldn’t gamble our money and our future on pipelines.
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Private companies know there’s no business case for more pipelines when renewables have never been cheaper, cleaner, and faster to deploy. So the government is about to invest OUR money instead. Most Canadians agree: NO taxpayer-funded pipelines >> act.gp/4yzyXjC
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Even the oil companies don't want to pay for new pipelines!
Our government shouldn’t gamble our money and our future on pipelines.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just signed this petition demanding real climate action at COP31, join me: act.350.org/sign/cop31/?...
act.350.org
Tell the COP31 Presidencies: Phase Out Fossil Fuels and Deliver a Just Transition
In November, Türkiye and Australia will host this year's UN Climate Talks (COP31). For two weeks, they'll steer the negotiations that decide how fast and how fairly the world moves off coal, oil and g...
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Fuelling Populism
Discover Greenpeace Canada's investigation, Manufacturing Petro-Populism, uncovering the covert network of front groups and fossil fuel industry backing behind oil and gas advocacy in Canada.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 08/10/2026
Great CBC article on how first-past-the-post has distorted Quebec's democracy. The PQ, QS, and PCQ all committed to electoral reform during the election campaign. Now is the time to make that happen. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Parti Québécois win with record-low vote share revives calls for electoral reform | CBC News
A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming PQ government has reignited a long-simmering debate over how the province elects its leaders.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...
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‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists
New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
32 environmental organizations signed a letter to urge the government to respect its international obligations at COP17, the international conference on Biodiversity. seniorsforclimateactionnow.org/wp-content/u... Send your own letter: secure.seniorsforclimateactionnow.org/en/civicrm/p....
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Don’t Sell Off Our Airports to Private Investors. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...
actionnetwork.org
Don’t Sell Off Our Airports to Private Investors
Higher airline ticket prices. Massive job cuts. Eroding safety standards. That’s what airport privatization has meant for travellers and workers everywhere it’s been tried. Selling off our airports an...
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 29/09/2026
Massive news out of the UK with Prime Minister Andy Burnham announcing a National Commission on Electoral Reform, promising to contest the next election on implementing its findings. If the nation we inherited first-past-the-post from ditches it, what's our excuse?
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 29/09/2026
If politicians feared opposition majorities with 40% of the vote, they would pass proportional representation. Instead, they rely on fear to lock in votes without earning them. Eventually the pendulum swings, leaving us stuck with the outcome we feared, under the system they refused to fix.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey #BikeTO! MPP Mary-Margaret McMahon is hosting "Bike The Night" on Friday, October 9. Starts 6:30 PM at East Lynn Park. Please spread the word! #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.eventbrite.ca/e/bike-the-n...?
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Bike The Night!
Join Triple M for a rally and group bike ride through the east end of Toronto to show Ford that the bike lanes must stay!
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 29/09/2026
The rise of for-profit industry comes as Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare eliminate nearly 500 jobs. #canlab @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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The struggle between Hamilton hospital cuts and private clinic growth
Rise of for-profit industry comes as Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare eliminate nearly 500 jobs.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Gets Ready to Answer Canadians’ Climate Questions #skit
YouTube video by Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What if every city that declared a #ClimateEmergency actually acted like it’s an emergency? What if every city that committed to #VisionZero actually acted like they meant it, prioritizing human lives in decision-making? What if every city’s budget actually reflect their approved plans & visions?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Netanyahu flies over Canada AGAIN (2x in one day) despite ICC arrest warrant. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/neta...
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Netanyahu flies over Canada AGAIN (2x in one day) despite ICC arrest warrant
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again travelled through Canadian airspace. This time, twice in the same day. Yesterday, September 24, the “Wing of Zion” aircraft (a Boeing 767-338E...
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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Have you been meaning to learn more about the landmark Mathur et al. v Ontario Charter challenge, but haven't had the time to? We've just made it easy. Press play, sit back and relax as we walk you through the case's history and next steps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHJj...
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Seven youth, seven years: What's next for the Mathur et al. v. Ontario climate case
YouTube video by Ecojustice Canada
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m just not sure I trust that his wife will protect our oceans while her husband is building yet another crude oil pipeline towards those same oceans and expanding ports that will result in the extinction of our resident orcas! The whole thing feels a bit icky. I mean this clip….
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just wrote a @leadnowca letter: Carney hands off our airports leadnow.ca/campaigns/ha...
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PM Carney: Hands off our airports - Leadnow
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 24/09/2026
Manitoba has far fewer orphan oil and gas wells than other western provinces. That's partly because Manitoba's oil and gas industry is smaller, but it could also be the result of policy differences between the provinces.
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Orphan wells are an issue across Western Canada. But one province has far fewer than the others — why?
Manitoba has far fewer orphan wells than other western provinces: 31 compared to more than 7,000 in Alberta
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shame on the federal government! 👇🏾
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign on to demand that the federal government ramp up measures to address out-of-control plastic pollution and shift away from single-use plastics. act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/189988/...
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Tell the federal government to end plastic pollution now
Sign on to demand that the federal government ramp up measures to address out-of-control plastic pollution and shift away from single-use plastics.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What are our leaders doing about it? Mark Carney: Build more pipelines, cancel the carbon tax, build data centres, ramp up spending on the military. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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River Run 2026
Join me in attending River Run Rally 2026 to support #GrassyNarrows on September 23rd, 2026 RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/river-run-2026 #FreeGrassy
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
<div>There is a wide range of proven climate solutions that can be scaled up but there&nbsp; is not enough investment in these solutions.&nbsp; As a result, we need to ask PM Carney to focus on increasing public and private investment in them.</div> share.nwmd.social/s/F5JpnzR3
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Letter to PM Carney About Increasing Funding for Climate Solutions
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026
There's a reason previous Liberal governments looked at privatizing airports and didn't go through with it. Private investors don't want a stake in our public assets to make them better. They’re in it to make as much money as possible for themselves - while workers and passengers pay the price.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dolly: Kirk = Benevolent: malignant
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh my god. People saw the term “concession agreement” (basically a lease) and keep angrily telling me it’s just food and shops being privatized at airports. Concession has multiple meanings. Investors would manage the entire airport. Like highway 407.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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Beryl Pilkington @berylpilking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was shocked to learn CPP is invested in complicit companies in Israel and just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell CPPIB You Refuse to Allow Your Money to Be Invested in Genocide, Apartheid, and War Crimes. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell CPPIB You Refuse to Allow Your Money to Be Invested in Genocide, Apartheid, and War Crimes
For the seventh consecutive year, we have analyzed Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) investments. As of 31 March 2026 (fiscal year end 2025/2026), CPPIB had over $54 billion invested in 1...
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Seniors for Climate Action Now @seniorsfcan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join me in calling on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our retirement savings with a credible climate plan, responsible investments, and respect for Indigenous rights. Add your name: win.newmode.net/shiftaction/... #cdnpoli #pensions #Climate #Investing
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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