Chris Ferris

Photo of Prime Minister Carney meeting with workers in Hamilton, Ontario.

One of the best ways to make life more affordable is to increase your purchasing power by creating higher-paying jobs.

To do that, we’re securing new trade partnerships, attracting massive investment, and fast-tracking major projects.

YouTube video by Mark Carney How we’re bringing down costs

During the pandemic, inflation shot up globally. The cost of everyday items went up, and wages didn’t keep pace. That created an affordability problem.

We have a plan to fix it.
youtube.com/watch?v=9MIx...

Getting rid of street cars was a big mistake taken by many cities at that time.

Portals should be installed before the last intersection so drivers have an option to turn on an alternate route instead of straight into the viaduct

The Greene Avenue viaduct in Westmount is hit at least once every 2-3 months disrupting exo trains for hundred of commuters for many hours 🙃

Second time a truck driver hits a low bridge causing a disruption on REM service

Can I suggest a cheap solution to prevent this in the future?

www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/02/20/r...

Manitoba Physician Named Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Joss Reimer, a well-known physician from Manitoba, has been named Canada's new chief public health officer.

Manitoba Physician Named Canada's Chief Public Health Officer www.chrisd.ca/2026/02/20/j...

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a production and manufacturing assembly facility in Montréal, Québec.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a production and manufacturing assembly facility in Montréal, Québec.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a production and manufacturing assembly facility in Montréal, Québec.

Canada’s new Defence Industrial Strategy will transform our military and defence supply chains — creating good careers at home, opening new markets for our businesses, and equipping the Canadian Armed Forces with the world-class equipment they need to protect Canada and our Allies.

Well, here is a rather interesting addendum to the Davos speech: Talks led by Mark Carney to create an EU-TPP super-bloc. Sans the U.S. www.politico.eu/article/eu-a...

Hope you feel better soon.

Festival du Voyageur 2026 Kicks Off in Winnipeg Festival du Voyageur officially opens today, marking the start of one of Manitoba’s largest and most iconic winter celebrations.

Festival du Voyageur 2026 Kicks Off in Winnipeg www.chrisd.ca/2026/02/13/f...

Thrilled for the 7th event in @policy_school’s Canada’s Productivity Initiative in partnership with Rotman, featuring insight from Carolyn Rogers, Bill Morneau, Susan Black, Glenda Crisp, and so many more.

Livestream available: community.rotman.utoronto.ca/events/s/sp... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

"We are actually seeing our rents fall, and this is directly because of this missing middle change and the more housing types that are allowed" www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

The deceptively simple reform that could unlock more housing Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?

"Single-stair buildings allow for more varied unit layouts, since the apartments can be arranged more freely around a central staircase. That flexibility could make it easier to build more family-friendly three- and four-bedroom units." www.vox.com/housing/4101...

For locations closer to the equator, I would expect the lower daylight variation to reduce the need for larger solar arrays / wind farms + batteries. For in day collection and use (24 hour).

Canada’s auto industry has adapted, pivoted, and when necessary, transformed. That’s what we must do now — to build good careers, greater prosperity, and a stronger, more independent Canadian economy.

“At the age of 23, before she'd even earned her PhD, Carol Greider made the discovery that would earn her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Along with her supervisor and co-laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered the enzyme telomerase…”

Carney’s push to double electrical grid capacity dwarfs Manitoba's power-producing plans The prime minister says his government will announce a plan to double Canada's generating capacity. Manitoba’s plan calls for a 15 per cent increase over 10 years.

Carney says Canada will double the capacity of its electrical grid. This comes days after Manitoba Hydro announced plans to increase its generating capacity by 15% www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Globe and Mail article that reads “Ottawa, Seoul agree to work on bringing South Korean auto sector manufacturing to Canada”

We’re working with international partners to create new high-paying careers, build up our domestic auto sector, and boost productivity in Canada.

The question is, is it painul enough to warrant trying to fix it?

Sounds like the approval process could be improved.

Infill like this is fantastic!

Former Winnipeg industrial site reimagined as mixed-use community New district to bring commercial, industrial, residential and parkland to one area

M-R housing/commercial/light industrial approved and incoming on a giant brownfield site that has been vacant for decades. We're building Winnipeg.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/ind...

The Premiers and I are working together to build safer and stronger communities.

Studying whether low-economic-mobility neighborhoods can be transformed into high-mobility areas through the HOPE VI program, which invested billions to distressed public housing developments, from Chetty, Diamond, Foster, @lkatz42.bsky.social, Porter, Staiger, and Tach www.nber.org/papers/w34720

Its too bad to see. At least there appears to be transition planning in place. Or being built.

And a HAF-supported affordable rental residential tower next door! Winnipeg, MB.

E.G., www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/yardw...

Also, use a snow scoop to clear the bulk, then tidy up with a shovel. Much less lifting.

A thread on our latest publication – a publication we worked > 10 years on. 🙃 This project has driven us mad at times. But in the end, it has made it onto the cover of tomorrow’s issue of @ScienceMagazine, so I suppose it was worth it... 😅 1/