A very nice form letter to send to the Canada Pension Plant Investment Board about the egregious – in fact, possibly illegal – continued investement and abandonment of net zero targets. Can you tell which part I added? ;) To CPPIB directors and senior leadership, As one of the 22 million Canadians whose retirement savings you manage, I’m beyond disgusted to learn that CPPIB quietly abandoned its already pathetically weak and ill-intentioned net-zero by 2050 commitment in May 2025. This reversal signals that CPPIB is only interested in short term financial gain while the world literally burns. You know better than I how quickly oil and gas will stop being viable, but you're trying to bamboozle Canadians into thinking you have their long-term interests at heart with your villainous investments, rather than the reality that continued fossil fuel investment feeds the swiftly approaching climate catastrophe that will be utterly unaffordable for all of us and will not be assuaged by th...
This letter with a few KB personalizations is from World Beyond War. Send your own letter here. I am extremely concerned about the upcoming budget. Government announcements over the past few months point to a budget that will steal tens of billions of dollars from health, education, public services, and climate action, and pour it into buying American weapons systems and quadrupling Canadian military spending to record-breaking levels. This is appalling. War causes destruction, harms ordinary people and is a terrible place to be spending money when crucial services that improve life for people are being cut. I am upset that this budget will bring tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations and individuals in the country while the rest of Canadians find life increasingly less affordable; increased border militarization and attacks on migrants at a time when our neighbours to the south are being menaced by their own government and more people than ever have their homes made...