Gerald Butts

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.

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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?

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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.

The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready | The Walrus Why sovereigntists see their chance now

Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Quebec referendum, when we came within a hair’s breadth of losing a great country.

I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.

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Barger with the Dave Parker strike from RF!

I think you might want to take a closer look at that chart.

All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.

Eat it, Los Angeles. #BlueJays

People flock to Cape Breton in summertime, but mid-October is my favourite time on our beautiful island. 🍂 🍁

Happy Thanksgiving, folks. I’ve never been more thankful to live in this beautiful country. 🇨🇦

Found this slim gem in a London bookshop. Who am I to disagree with Michael Ondaatje? #AmReading 📚

It’s like the 1930s are happening in reverse.

Perfect cartoon.

Peak oil (valuation) happened in 1985.

French President Macron speaking on German reunification:

“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”

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Poilievre claims Christians 'may be the number 1' victims of hate-based violence | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday that Christians and their places of worship are being targeted and, if elected, he will crack down on religion-based hate.

Buddy never walks by an ember without emptying his gas can.

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We’re between Soylent Green and Children of Men on the Sci-Fi timeline. Feels about right.