Gerald Butts
@gmbutts.bsky.social
Vice Chair @EurasiaGroup. Board Director WWF. Climate, technology, and geopolitics. Priors: Principal Secretary to PM of Canada and Premier of Ontario, CEO WWF.
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Gerald Butts
@gmbutts.bsky.social
· Jan 6
Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2025
www.eurasiagroup.net
There was a lot to choose from this year, but here’s what we @eurasiagroup.net think you should be worried about in 2025. #TopRisks2025
www.eurasiagroup.net/TopRisks2025
www.eurasiagroup.net/TopRisks2025
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.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Moore Butts Conversation #28 - Why Are Pipelines So Hard To Build?
Podcast Episode · The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · 2025-11-25 · 47m
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November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Walking around the joyful Christmas market in Montreal thinking what a unique, free, and wondrous city and country.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Walking around the joyful Christmas market in Montreal thinking what a unique, free, and wondrous city and country.
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…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Normie America might come to the uncomfortable conclusion that QAnon was right about a few things today. #EpsteinFiles
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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. 🦣 🐅
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
On the upside, we can watch AI videos of wooly mammoths wrestling sabre toothed tigers on them long after they’re gone. 🦣 🐅
Chart crime of the year 2025. AI could solve all problems, or extirpate all humans. 1/2
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Chart crime of the year 2025. AI could solve all problems, or extirpate all humans. 1/2
Everything is possible. Hard to argue, Doha.
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Everything is possible. Hard to argue, Doha.
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.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready | The Walrus
Why sovereigntists see their chance now
thewalrus.ca
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
I wrote this piece last year because I was worried we are sleepwalking into another referendum, in a far more dangerous time.
thewalrus.ca/the-quebec-s...
Barger with the Dave Parker strike from RF!
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Barger with the Dave Parker strike from RF!
All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
All this Reagan talk reminds me of a funny chart.
People flock to Cape Breton in summertime, but mid-October is my favourite time on our beautiful island. 🍂 🍁
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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. 🇨🇦
October 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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 📚
October 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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.
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
🧵 1/7
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October 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s like the 1930s are happening in reverse.
Peak oil (valuation) happened in 1985.
October 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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“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.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
October 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
“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.”
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
We’re between Soylent Green and Children of Men on the Sci-Fi timeline. Feels about right.
September 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We’re between Soylent Green and Children of Men on the Sci-Fi timeline. Feels about right.
Buddy has the verb tense wrong.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Buddy has the verb tense wrong.
Holy mackerel is this ever good. #AmReading 📚
September 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Holy mackerel is this ever good. #AmReading 📚
Finest political leadership comms in history?
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Finest political leadership comms in history?
It’s amazing how well these hold up.
It’s amazing how well these hold up.