Joe Butson
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Joe Butson
@JoeButson
#lean + #product; #ai; retail; knows banks + capital markets; prefers gentle art of asking vs. telling.


I really wish Poilievre would stop this class struggle rhetoric. He sounds like a Socialist. Replace « elites » with « bourgeoisie » and it could have come directly from Karl Marx. It certainly doesn’t sound like it comes from a conservative. Is he trying to pick up NDP votes?




Brian Mulroney's memoir published in 2007 is one of the better prime ministerial memoirs in Canadian history. More than 900 pages, highly detailed, very reflective and definitely worth a read. Mulroney would have turned 87 today.



Cormac McCarthy in El Paso, c.1980

Sigourney Weaver at Tail ‘o the Pup hotdog stand mid 1980s at its second location on San Vicente Boulevard. Novelty architecture at its finest and peak kitsch, only in the City of Angels where dreams and Coca-Cola are inseparable from the bright sunshine and palm-lined streets.

Some 40 percent of the potential top 1 percent of Canadian earners have emigrated to the U.S. Read @CharlesLammam in @TheHubCanada: thehub.ca/2026/03/20/why…


It's clear Mark Carney prefers basking in accolades abroad than addressing the nitty-gritty, non-sexy domestic problems that can't be cured by speeches...They are difficult, and his approval ratings are unlikely to last, as many Canadians continue to struggle #cdnpoli



















