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 www.chrisd.ca/2026/02/20/j...

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...

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...

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

"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...

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 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/...

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

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

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

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/

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

One of Canada’s most important defence companies is now Indigenous-owned #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

Here is the text. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

Qatar is a strong partner to Canada in trade, commerce, and the pursuit of peace and stability around the world. In Doha today, the Amir, HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and I focused on elevating this partnership to create more opportunities for Canadians and Qataris alike.

We’re forging a new strategic partnership with China — focused on trade, energy, agriculture, and other areas where we can make big gains for Canadian workers.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... A good start.

Manitoba canola producers mostly happy with Carney’s China deal, but pork producers still want tariff relief. [Featuring work of reporters in the Winnipeg newsroom and the Steinbach bureau.] www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto LRTs faced challenges in yesterday's storm. Meanwhile, here in #WatReg, we've got folks taking beautiful shots of our ION chugging along smoothly. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Construction Begins on Railside Mixed-Use Neighbourhood at The Forks www.chrisd.ca/2026/01/15/r...

Manitoba Plans $235M Interchange at Perimeter Highway and McGillivray Boulevard www.chrisd.ca/2026/01/16/m...

Winnipeg, and 'Railside' housing at the Forks. The plans are even older than that, Brent. Forks CEO Jim August floated the initial concept of housing in that part of the site (and on Parcel 4) while I was still on the Board, which puts it at roughly 18 yrs ago. 1/2

The argument that we need Greenland for national security rings hollow. According to Danish officials & defense histories, dozens of U.S. military installations & bases in Greenland are closed, leaving only 1 active base. If it is so strategic to our national defense, why do we only have 1 base ?

I don't always know what is going to resonate when I write. This one has resonated with everyone who has strong women in their lives.

Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Positive tipping point: The more people buy electric cars, Greenlees and Smith write, "the cheaper and better they get, which makes even more people buy them – a self-propelling change towards a low-carbon road transport system."

Ministers to announce new rail link between Birmingham and Manchester ft.trib.al/JBtIyaL

Intercity rail, in the UK

"Municipalities are judged on the wrong housing metric. Housing starts and completions reflect decisions made by many actors, not just cities, which makes them a poor basis for municipal accountability."

Manitoba Backs Crown Royal Jobs, Clean Energy Project at Gimli Distillery www.chrisd.ca/2026/01/13/c...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

Lawn law, in Mississauga, ON. H/t @damienmoule.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A living fossil... www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

The ousted Venezuelan leader was captured by U.S. troops in a raid on Saturday.

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

TLDR: density makes services affordable at lower price points. The way we do taxes kind of transfers money from low income people to high income people, although it's complicated by space and quality preferences among higher income people.

Draft. Each dot is one of Halifax's dissemination areas, small, neighborhood-sized tracts of land use in the census. The graph shows estimated tax surplus/deficit (%) vs median household income for four different levels of residential density.

An attempt of estimating how easily different areas could absorb their revenue-service cost gap (expressing as the per-unit gap as a percent of the median household income in each area). I haven't included the areas that already cover their own costs.