Gerald Butts
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Climate and Geopolitics. Skeptical optimist. Vice Chair @eurasiagroup . Director @World_Wildlife . Born at 327 ppm. Priors: PMO, OPO, CEO @WWFCanada , @McGillU .
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Firing up this account briefly to support my alma mater and our President. Immensely proud to see
@mcgillu
dig in its heels to fight back against this bullying government.
We are undertaking this legal action because we believe that these measures are illegal and if upheld, will threaten McGill’s mission, its place as one of the world’s top universities and its vital role in Quebec.
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The fight to overturn Roe vs Wade started the day after the decision was rendered. It took 50 years of politics but the 🇺🇸 far-right finally won. If you don’t think the same fight is happening in 🇨🇦 you are not paying attention.
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You shouldn't be able to anonymously crowdsource funding for an insurrection in democracies. If we can't agree about that, we're in serious trouble.
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Everyone has Covid now because we stopped wearing masks. This is obvious, right?
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This insurrection is and always was about the money. So expect its architects to go completely bananas about the government’s response. It’s calibrated, non-violent, and will be very effective. They did the right thing today.
#EmergenciesAct
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Canada has officially survived the presidency of Donald Trump. Well done gang. 🇨🇦
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I'll bite. She endured personal tragedy while suffering with a mental illness under grinding public scrutiny that nobody in the press understood or sympathized with. She used her experience to help others who were similarly afflicted. Margaret Trudeau is a good person.
What has Margaret Trudeau achieved in life to warrant being paid $250k to give a few pep talks to kids, apart from marrying a prime minister and being the mother of another?
Oh, right. That’s how things work in a banana republic.
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Just saw a video of
@AndrewScheer
, kids in tow, being hounded through the airport by a reporter. Guys, please don’t do this. You have no idea what his kids may be enduring.
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Thank you to all the health care workers — who won’t have much of a Christmas this year. Bless you all. 🎄
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Please remember social media is not broadcast. 13% of Canadians are on twitter and your YouTube and TikTok feeds are not for everybody — they’re made for you. You control what you say, not what you see. And what you see isn’t representative of 🇨🇦 as a whole.
#protip
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The guy is made of iron. Don't doubt it.
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Somebody at CTV made a gigantic mistake. Hoo boy.
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If Prime Ministers Sanna Marin and Justin Trudeau got together for a song and dance number at UNGA the Russian internet might explode. Do it for NATO.
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Of course it’s gross and abhorrent what racist buddy from YouTube said about Poilievre’s family.
If you’re outraged when they target your loved ones, but serve them coffee and Timmy’s when they’re doing it to your political adversaries, you’re going to get some blowback.
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My goodness the replies. These two people, who have devoted most of their adult lives to public service, have three kids and are doing the responsible thing. Give your heads a shake folks.
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Honestly if anyone you love works in — or needs— health care I don’t know how you could vote for Jason Kenney or Doug Ford again.
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These people are so brave. They know the possible consequences.
A view of the protest in central Moscow this evening. Thousands across the country are risking serious repercussions to protest Putin’s attack on Ukraine. More than 850 people detained so far.
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Well Canadian Conservatives, I guess this is who you are now. Good luck.
Federal conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is marching with James Topp.
@ctvottawa
@CTVNews
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I haven’t seen this many snowflakes in Ottawa since the fake trucker convoy.
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The next leader of the CPC will be its 5th since Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 2013.
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September 26, 2022. It has been 1000 days since I had a cigarette. I determined to never smoke another. If you’re trying to quit smoking or anything else that’s bad for you, keep trying. It’s possible. 🚬
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Believe it or not I have a lot of conservative friends. Made a point to reach out to them over the past few weeks. You’ll be happy to know they’re all as concerned as my liberal friends are about the turn Canadian politics has taken.
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Make Chickenpox Great Again.
Today I introduced a Private Member’s Bill to abolish all current vaccine mandates, and ban any and all future vaccine mandates.
Give people back their medical freedom. Let them take back control of their lives.
Join before Friday June 3rd:
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I am not going to copy or retweet the leader of the extremist right-wing party in my country because that’s what he wants: amplification. You knew what kind of person he was before he said what he said today. This is not news to anyone paying attention.
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Big anti-war crowd in Petersburg. 🇺🇦
Watch as a crowd gathers in St Petersburg, Russia and chants "No to War," & "Ukraine is not our enemy". Take a look:
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There’s a 9 year old boy in a London hospital tonight who probably doesn’t know his whole family is dead. All because of hatred and the people who spread it.
It’s beyond awful what we’re capable of doing to each other, and what we tolerate being done to the vulnerable among us.
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So young women reporters get threatened with rape for doing their jobs, a 58 year old woman gets fired for wearing her natural hair colour, and Finland is suddenly the town from Footloose.
Stellar week for recruiting women into public life.
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The problem with this line of argument is that tens of millions of Canadians found it possible to live their lives in peace — and help each other through a tough time. Most people didn’t come to Ottawa with hot tubs and bouncy castles.
"This was an emergency that Justin Trudeau created by attacking his own population, by driving up their cost of living, by making it impossible for people to pay their bills, and live their lives in peace," says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as he comments on
#POEC
report.
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We are lucky to live in a country where our public institutions work. 🇨🇦
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Anytime I tweet support/congrats for
@cathmckenna
or any other successful woman I’m reminded this site has a bottomless pit of anonymous accounts that exist to spread lies/hate about them. Somebody’s paying for these 😈 farms, and it’s past time
@twitter
did something about it.
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Kenney, Moe, Ford. All the Resistance, tough guy premiers are folding like cheap lawn chairs.
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Half the country is on fire and Poilievre is personally filibustering the most important climate budget in Canada’s history.
These are his priorities and interests. I didn’t think it possible in 2023, but the CPC is worse on climate now than it was under Harper.
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Never seen anything like what’s happened in the west on SWIFT in the last 48 hours. It was a red line on Wednesday for half the EU. Now it feels like it’s going to happen. 🇺🇦
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CANADA IS BROKEN!
Best Countries for Quality of Life, 2021
1.🇨🇦Canada
2.🇩🇰Denmark
3.🇸🇪Sweden
4.🇳🇴Norway
5.🇨🇭Switzerland
6.🇦🇺Australia
7.🇳🇱Netherlands
8.🇫🇮Finland
9.🇩🇪Germany
10.🇳🇿NZL
14.🇬🇧UK
17.🇫🇷France
20.🇺🇸US
23.🇨🇳China
33.🇸🇦S Arabia
36.🇮🇱Israel
38.🇮🇳India
40.🇹🇷Turkey
(US News & World Report)
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The public sector got us through two years of pandemic, vaccinated everyone who wanted one, and kept several million Canadian households from going bankrupt. But the commentariat has declared Canada broken because they have to wait for their passports?
That sound about right?
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Canada is not perfect. No place is. But gee whiz it’s reassuring to see political leaders of different parties put politics aside to fight
#Covid19
. 👏
I have been calling on the federal government to increase the wage subsidy for small and medium-sized businesses. These people are the backbone of our economy and this time has not been easy on them. Thank you
@JustinTrudeau
- this support will protect thousands of jobs.
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So the Premier of Ontario operates from a "stack" of burner phones, which his staff just told the world. Awesome.
#FolksFolksFolks
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Who says Albertans don't care about
#climatechange
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Look at the crowd for
@GretaThunberg
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Happy Canada Day folks. It’s a weak and brittle country that refuses to reckon with the darkness of its history. Strong ones own even their horrific mistakes, and resolve to make amends and do better. Let’s be one of those. 🇨🇦
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Don’t say the murderer’s name. Say the victims names. Make them as well known as Sidney Crosby, and bury that arsehole with the people he killed.
#NovaScotia
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Switzerland chooses sides.
Another remarkable development in this century of a week.
⚡️⚡️The President of Switzerland announced that the country will join the EU sanctions against Russia.
Significant, considering Switzerland’s traditionally neutral stance
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Electing people who loathe government to run governments is not the brightest of ideas.
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There are a surprising number of guys with no children who have strong opinions about daycare. 😂
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The thing to remember is that Poilievre is seeking out these young men and lying to them. And reinforcing the lies they’re being told by very bad people who mean them harm. It’s appalling.
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Those of us who did not learn about the horrors of Residential Schools in a classroom should understand why fights over curriculum are important.
#Education
#GenX
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What a horrible thing. Thinking of my American family, friends and colleagues. I’m so sorry you have to live through this. ✌️
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Absolutely. 🇨🇦
We’re not that divided. We’re being gaslit into thinking we are. Stay strong Canada.
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Greetings new followers. Despite the batshit conspiracy theories propagated by right wingers, I neither work for nor am I paid by the government, PM, Liberal Party, or anyone related to any of the above. Haven’t in years.
My views are my own. That freedom is precious. ✌️
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One of the hardest things to do in politics: tell your supporters a truth they need to hear but don’t want to hear. Ford is the first conservative to do that in a long time.
Premier Doug Ford lashes out at anti-social distancing protest on the Queen's Park lawn, calling them "irresponsible, reckless, selfish" and he proceeds to call them "yahoos."
"Obviously they don't care about everyone else in Ontario."
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I see people who couldn’t spell NORAD 3 days ago are now expert in the details of its protocols.
Never change, Twitter.
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Trudeau haters will find something wrong with today’s testimony I’m sure. Most people will judge the Prime Minister’s rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act — and detailed description of how his thought process developed — to be eminently reasonable. Reassuring even.
#POEC
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Why would advertisers have concerns about the new Twitter? 🤔
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This painting is hard but necessary to look at if you’re Canadian.
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The long term strategy of right wingers is to toxify the public square so people shy away from public service. One of the ways they do that is to defame all their opponents as corrupt. It has to be confronted or it will work.
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People who demand their own rights without respecting the rights of others aren’t free. They’re preschoolers.
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Doug Ford's main problem is he just wants to be liked. He should have gotten a dog instead of running for office. 🐶
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In my experience, the best way to win a campaign — against Pierre Poilievre or anyone else — is to offer a clear choice to people, and relentlessly but positively communicate what makes your leader, team and program the better choice.
People are not stupid.
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Poilievre was basically Uber Eats for this crowd when they occupied Ottawa in January. Now we’re supposed to believe he doesn’t recognize their leader in Halifax?
People aren’t stupid.
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You could live a long time and never see something better than this.
#NovaScotia
Canadian musician Natalie MacMaster honoured those killed in the Nova Scotia shootings by playing fiddle alongside a video of one of the victims, 17-year-old Emily Tuck.
#NovaScotiaRemembers
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Don’t confuse Russian leadership with the Russian people.
anti-war protest in moscow
surely getting bigger when the russian economy implodes tomorrow
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Ontario is the most prosperous diverse place on Earth because our kids go to great public schools together. You want to fuck that up in one easy step, do this. 👇👇👇
Time for school choice in Ontario.
With what we pay per student for education in Ontario, parents could choose a nice private school with a voucher system.
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The good people of Ottawa have had enough and are taking matters into their own hands.
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Liberals win. Congrats to the team on the toughest of campaigns and the (still) Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
.
#Elxn44
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Thank you you to Bill Morneau for his public service. He’s a good person who got into it for all the right reasons. Among other things, Canadians got a stronger Pension Plan and Health Accord because of his hard work. Neither would have happened without him.
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The people yelling freedom! are always so quick to tell you what you can and can’t do once they have power.
NEW:
Premier Danielle Smith confirms her government will ban any masking mandates in K-12 schools going forward.
#yeg
#yyc
#ableg
#covid19ab
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The only reason I don’t own a Tesla is that Elon Musk is a dick.
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Karina Gould is a good person.
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You should hear how Canadians pronounce “Tucker.”
I have never heard anyone mispronounce "Ottawa" the way
@TuckerCarlson
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Bannon, Jones, Ezra, McInnes. The list goes on and on. They all got rich monetizing hate and other people’s suffering. Hope this is the beginning of a large reckoning.
Alex Jones monetized 'misinformation and lies,' jury in damages trial told
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Meanwhile, Pizza Hut is now subtweeting the Premier of Ontario. What a time to be alive.
Need to decide on a decision for dinner? Let’s get decisive when you decide, because this dinner is a decisive decision.
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Macron, Biden, Trudeau, Scholz, Ardern — all elected or re-elected in the last 18 months.
Where are the “Rise of the Sensible Centrists” stories?
Emmanuel Macron wins a second term as France’s president | The Economist
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I'd be more focused on the Amazon workers who'll miss their next birthday.
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My goodness. 🇺🇦
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Chrystia Freeland is not a Nazi.
WEF is just a fancy pants meeting.
Nuclear war is a bad idea.
Keep your heads, people.
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The Church is practically begging to have public funding removed from Catholic schools in Ontario.
Peterborough's Catholic schools won't fly Pride flag in June after narrow vote | CBC News
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