Peter Butt

Retired teacher and a proud father.

[Kirsten Hillman @KirstenHillmanA]

Canada is America’s top customer, supporting a U.S. trade surplus in manufactured goods, while also providing affordable and reliable energy that fuels the U.S. economy. Thanks for the discussion, @ChrisCuomo.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

"America is hurting itself": Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland talks about the twists and turns in Trump's tariff policy, and Canada's response.

[Coast 101.1 @coast1011]

Bill & Carolyn - Before last night's 4 Nations Final between Canada & the US in Boston, Winnipeg-born Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from ‘in all of us command’ to ‘that only us command’ because of President Trump’s continuous calls for Canada to become the 51st state.

[Peter Butt @pbutt44]

Just a suggestion ..but the federal government should supply retail stores of Canada, small Canadian flag stickers to be placed by the price tags of Canadian products on their store shelves. This would eliminate the need to read the small print and make the choice more visible.

[Rock and Roll Garage @rocknrollgarag1]

Brian Johnson and Lady Gaga singing AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" on Apple TV's "A Carpool Karaoke Christmas"

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Washington hasn’t stopped dreaming

[Senator Ravalia @SenatorRavalia]

I had the honour of officiating Kelsey and Steven’s wedding. 🩷
What a time was had by all.
⁦@pbutt44⁩ ⁦@sslipp⁩

[Jeff🐦 @JeffreykBrace]

What a great story

The Comeback kid

[Peter Butt @pbutt44]

A little too breezy for my liking. Screen shot today at 1:00.

[Peter Butt @pbutt44]

@PurityFactories Jam jams and raspberry syrup

[Breakfast Television @breakfasttv]

.@sid_seixeiro has a very important message for Shohei Ohtani 👀

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Some kid at the Hockey Hall of Fame told Wayne Gretzky how to hold a hockey stick 😭 https://t.co/PgJHzGvo2B

[Family Feud Canada @FamilyFeudCa]

A gummy party!
📺 Tune in to @cbc tonight at 7:30 (8NT) for this new episode of #FamilyFeudCanada, hosted by @GerryDee!

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

.@officialKeef shows Jimmy how he does his famous guitar riffs and plays “Jumpin' Jack Flash” & “Start Me Up” for them to jam out to 🎸 #FallonTonight

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

"Israeli leadership must realise that there is no military solution to its security concerns."

— King Abdullah of Jordan in Cairo

One minute into his speech at the Cairo Summit, King Abdullah switched from Arabic "for our friends in Europe and around the world, my message is for them."

Full video of his remarks and transcript below:

Peace, God’s mercy and blessings be upon you.

This is how Muslims and Arabs greet others: with a wish for the other to be blessed with peace and the mercy of God.

Our religion came with a message of peace. The Pact of Omar, issued at the gates of Jerusalem almost 15 centuries ago, more than a thousand years before the Geneva Conventions, ordered Muslim soldiers not to kill a child, a woman or an old person, not to destroy a tree, not to harm a priest, not to destroy a church.

Those are the rules of engagement that Muslims must accept and abide by, as should all those who believe in our common humanity. All civilian lives matter!

I am outraged and grieved by those acts of violence waged against innocent civilians in Gaza, in the West Bank, and Israel.

The relentless bombing campaign underway in Gaza as we speak is cruel and unconscionable—on every level.

It is collective punishment of a besieged and helpless people.

It is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

It is a war crime.

Yet, the deeper the crisis cuts of cruelty, the less the world seems to care.

Anywhere else, attacking civilian infrastructure and deliberately starving an entire population of food, water, electricity, and basic necessities would be condemned. Accountability would be enforced, immediately, unequivocally.

And it has been done before—recently, in another conflict.

But not in Gaza. It’s been two weeks since Israel put in place the complete siege of the Gaza Strip. And still, for the most part, global silence.

Yet the message the Arab world is hearing is loud and clear: Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli ones. Our lives matter less than other lives. The application of international law is optional. And human rights have boundaries—they stop at borders, they stop at races, and they stop at religions.

That is a very, very dangerous message, as the consequences of continued international apathy and inaction will be catastrophic—on us all.

We cannot let raw emotions dictate the moment; our priorities today are clear and urgent:

First: An immediate end to the war on Gaza, the protection of civilians, and the adoption of a unified position that indiscriminately condemns the targeting of all civilians, in line with our shared values and international law, which loses all value if it is implemented selectively.

Second: The sustained and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid, fuel, food, and medicines to the Gaza Strip.

Third: The unequivocal rejection of the forced displacement or internal displacement of the Palestinians. This is a war crime according to international law, and a red line for all of us.

This conflict, my friends, did not start two weeks ago, and it will not stop if we continue down this blood-soaked path. We know all too well that it will only lead to more of the same—a zero-sum game of death and destruction, of hatred and hopelessness played on repeat.

Today, Israel is literally starving civilians in Gaza, but for decades, Palestinians have been starved of hope, of freedom, and a future.

Because when the bombs stop falling, Israel is never held accountable, the injustices of occupation continue and the world walks away, until the next round of violence. The bloodshed we are witnessing today is the price of that, of failing to make tangible progress towards a political horizon that brings peace for Palestinians and Israelis alike.

Israeli leadership must realise that there is no military solution to its security concerns, that it cannot continue to sideline the five million Palestinians living under its occupation, denied of their legitimate rights, and that Palestinians lives are no less valuable than Israeli lives.

The Israeli leadership must realise, once and for all, that a state can never thrive if it is built on the foundations of injustice.

Over the past 15 years, we have seen how the dreams of a two-state solution and the hopes of an entire generation have turned into despair. This has been the policy of hardline Israeli leadership—to focus solely on security over peace and create new illegal realities on the ground that render an autonomous Palestinian state unviable. In the process, it has empowered extremists on both sides.

But we must not—we cannot—write off this conflict as too far gone, for the sake of both the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Our collective and unified message to the Israeli people should be: We want a future of peace and security for you and for the Palestinians, where your children and Palestinian children should no longer live in fear.

It is our duty as the international community to do whatever it takes to restart a meaningful political process that can take us to a just and sustainable peace on the basis of the two-state solution.

The only path to a safe and secure future for the people of the Middle East and the entire world—for the Jewish people, for Christians, for Muslims alike—starts with the belief that every human life is of equal value and it ends with two states, Palestine and Israel, sharing land and peace from the river to the sea.

The time to act is now.

[Peter Butt @pbutt44]

@tfy1958 We done Monsterrat as well. Both amazing.

[Peter Butt @pbutt44]

@tfy1958 If you got time, a guided tour of Sagrada Famalia was a highlight of our visit.

[Senator Ravalia @SenatorRavalia]

Happy #VictoriaDay
Serenity out in the Bay @GoTwillingate