Chris Day

SVP @Burson @HKStrategies. Bilingual public affairs and strat comms leader. Boards: @tvo, @OCHOttawa, @exporail. Here for news and views.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Great advice for council hopefuls (and a good read) from my friend @glengower:

https://t.co/zNxL44vNNM

@ottawacity and #Stittsville have been well served for the last eight years.

#ottpoli #ottawa

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Great to rejoin friends Rob Snow + Susan Smith on @NewsRadioCGY @NewsRadioVAN @NewsRadioTO @NewsRadioKIT #NowYouKnow to discuss pipeline politics and more:

https://t.co/B2riPkncxA

#TLDR: we need major regulatory and legislative changes to get our resources to market. #cdnpoli

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

The figures in this story are telling. We need to address regulatory burden to fully unlock investment, wealth, etc. here at home. Over to you, Spring Economic Update:

https://t.co/xxFDFpjtVB

#cdnecon #cdnpoli

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.

The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.

The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.

And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.

The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.

Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Great to rejoin Rob Snow and @consultant_Neil on today’s News Day Panel:

https://t.co/HzMQDacmW0

^Segment begins at the 19:20 mark.

@citynewscalgary @CityNewsKIT @CityNewsHFX @CityNewsTO @CityNewsVAN #cdnpoli

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Legit funny. 😆

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

KINEW: [The press] want there to be a heated rivalry between Doug Ford and I, but we're on the same team.

CARNEY: I want you to just take that image – the heated rivalry between Doug Ford and Wab Kinew.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Busy news day with @MarkCarney’s big #Davos speech to unpack on the @VassyKapelos Show on the @iHeartRadioCA network:

https://t.co/lm1YYB3tes

Segment with @powerstim hosting fellow panellists Sharun Kaur and @Real_G_Soule begins at the 41:30 mark.

#cdnpoli

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Great pleasure to be back on @citynewscalgary @CityNewsTO @CityNewsHFX @CityNewsKIT & @CityNewsVAN’s #NowYouKnow w/Rob Snow and fellow panellist @MattDube.

#China #Greenland and #cdnpoli all on the menu:

https://t.co/HzMQDacmW0

Segment starts at 19:43. @RogersMediaPR

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Jay’s eye view of a #WorldSeries city courtesy @porterairlines.

Very best for Game 2, @BlueJays!

#WANTITALL

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

For the record, @tvo’s Polkaroo has always been a @BlueJays fan.

(No bandwagons here!)

#GoJays #WorldSeries #WANTITALL

[TVO.me @tvo]

Just your friendly neighbourhood Polkaroo, manifesting a Jays win!

#GoJaysGo

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Grateful on this Friday before a long weekend to join @agalbraith and fellow panellist @lobbygrl (whose sequined Jays jacket is a thing of wonder) for a #FreeForAll overview of the week in #cdnpoli, #WMHD, and more.

Segment starts at 43:47:

https://t.co/lm1YYB4140

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Great to join @RobSnow and @consultant_Neil on News Radio to look ahead to @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney’s trip to Washington, a possible fall (?) cabinet shuffle, and the 2-year anniversary of the #October7 attacks by Hamas terrorists:

https://t.co/HzMQDacULy

Segment @ 19:00 mark.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

A little bit of real talk is always refreshing - even when it is more than a little terrifying.

A high-stakes federal budget looms.

#cdnpoli #cdnecon

[CTV Question Period @ctvqp]

"We're at the precipice...we're kind of looking out over the cliff at this point," said Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques about the federal government's fiscal outlook ahead of the budget.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

#ShanaTova / Happy new year to my Jewish friends here in Canada and around the world.

May #RoshHashanah2025 and the coming High Holy Days bring sweet joy in the comfort of loved ones and hope in the marking of timeless, grand traditions.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Pleased to join @agalbraith and fellow panellist @sabrinagrover for #FreeForAllFriday today:

https://t.co/lm1YYB3tes

A wide-ranging and fun discussion. (Hard pass on an AI friend giving me running commentary on my life decisions.)

@iHeartRadioCA #cdnpoli

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

The politics of “austerity,” #cdnimm, and #crime were on the menu on today’s News Day Panel w/ @RobSnow15 and fellow panellist @garry_keller:

https://t.co/HzMQDacmW0

#ICYMI on @CityNewsTO @citynewscalgary @CityNewsKIT @CityNewsHFX @CityNewsVAN, segment begins at 18:56.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

Great to join @agalbraith and fellow panellist Sharun Kaur on the @VassyKapelos Show for #FreeForAllFriday:

https://t.co/ifvuyDaefN

Segment starts @ 39:00 and covers everything from #cdnpoli #cdnecon impacts of tariff decisions, to right to self-defence, to male cheerleaders.

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

It was a joy this week to join @RobSnow15 for another edition of the News Day Panel.

100 Days of @MarkJCarney and what’s to show?

https://t.co/6Pg1YJKGVh

#cdnpoli #cdntrade #cdnecon

[Chris Day @CDayOttawa]

@jacroy67 Thank you for your service to Canada and Canadians in this chapter. Enjoy the next.