Gerald Butts

Whole speech is worth watching.

Calling Trump a ‘fascist’ or ‘Nazi’ has become more commonplace given ICE, Venezuela, and Greenland. But is it correct?

That’s the question for James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social to start their latest conversation on The Bridge.

🔊 on SXM Canada Talks & podcast platforms at noon EST.

Most countries these days are faced with an ‘affordability crisis.’ Voters want action, but what action is truly possible from government?

That’s the first question in 2026 for James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social on The Bridge.

🔊 on SXM Canada Talks & podcast platforms at noon EST.

Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2026

This our 20th annual #TopRisks report at Eurasia Group. It is a bumper crop in 2026 — the most complex and potentially consequential risk environment in memory.

It informs leaders around the world in every sector. We hope it helps you make sense of things.

www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/Top-R...

Six of the top 10 are either in a kinetic conflict or threatening one, with each other or a neighbour. Or they’re under blanket sanctions. Or both.

Yet oil is at ~$60 a barrel.

The break does appear to start with the Nixon rather than the Reagan era, but the spread is what matters. Not sure how any of that is ideological.

A chart that says a lot about a lot. #AI is not going to improve this situation, to say the least.

Merry Christmas from the best gift ever. 🎄 🐶

Pure gold paragraph of political advice. Love that it’s all pronouns. It applies to everyone everywhere.

First read of Christmas is a long walk with a dear old friend. #AmReading 📚

2015 and 2025 were not for the faint of heart in Canadian politics.

A thousand times this.

Respect the choice.

America is disappointing these days, but there’s always New York City.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Catching up to where Pynchon saw the US going 50 years ago. #AmReading 📚

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore.

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Scoop: Trump's meeting with MBS got tense over Israel With the war in Gaza over, Trump had hoped for a breakthrough toward Saudi-Israeli normalization.

It’ll be a weird day when pro-Palestine campus protestors in North America are carrying MBS placards.

21st century geopolitics are anything but dull.

www.axios.com/2025/11/25/t...

Moore Butts Conversation #28 - Why Are Pipelines So Hard To Build? Podcast Episode · The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · 2025-11-25 · 47m

Trigger warning: we go deep on pipelines this week. What makes them such a contentious issue in 🇨🇦 ?

If you think today’s debate is fraught, wait til you hear about 1956. The end of CD Howe’s storied career, and an MP who literally died because of the stress.

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I doubt they had displays like Montreal’s.

I like to think about why I can enjoy the Christmas market.

Walking around the joyful Christmas market in Montreal thinking what a unique, free, and wondrous city and country.

New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.

New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.

“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”

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Normie America might come to the uncomfortable conclusion that QAnon was right about a few things today. #EpsteinFiles

On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, says Ottawa Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades, the country’s public health agency said in a statement on Monday.

Who says the Antivaxx movement has accomplished nothing?

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

We in an era of hype that would make Barnum & Bailey die of embarrassment. 2/2

Chart crime of the year 2025. AI could solve all problems, or extirpate all humans. 1/2

#Doha. I like the first and last photos best.

Everything is possible. Hard to argue, Doha.