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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Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2026
www.eurasiagroup.net
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...
It informs leaders around the world in every sector. We hope it helps you make sense of things.
www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/Top-R...
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...
It informs leaders around the world in every sector. We hope it helps you make sense of things.
www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/Top-R...
Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2026
www.eurasiagroup.net
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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...
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.
Yet oil is at ~$60 a barrel.
January 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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.
Yet oil is at ~$60 a barrel.
Merry Christmas from the best gift ever. 🎄 🐶
December 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Merry Christmas from the best gift ever. 🎄 🐶
Pure gold paragraph of political advice. Love that it’s all pronouns. It applies to everyone everywhere.
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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 📚
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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.
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2015 and 2025 were not for the faint of heart in Canadian politics.
A thousand times this.
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A thousand times this.
America is disappointing these days, but there’s always New York City.
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
America is disappointing these days, but there’s always New York City.
Forewarned is forearmed.
We could see two referendum battles in the near future: One in Québec and one in Alberta. Is Ottawa ready to handle that fight?
Who would be Captain Canada if it came to that? James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social are back to discuss.
🔊 on SXM Canada Talks & podcast platforms at noon EST.
Who would be Captain Canada if it came to that? James Moore & @gmbutts.bsky.social are back to discuss.
🔊 on SXM Canada Talks & podcast platforms at noon EST.
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Forewarned is forearmed.
Catching up to where Pynchon saw the US going 50 years ago. #AmReading 📚
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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.
reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...
reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...
reneweconomy.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore.
reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...
reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...
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...
21st century geopolitics are anything but dull.
www.axios.com/2025/11/25/t...
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.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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...
21st century geopolitics are anything but dull.
www.axios.com/2025/11/25/t...
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
podcasts.apple.com
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.