Canada keeps slipping in world happiness rankings. Why are we so sad?

Canada keeps slipping in world happiness rankings. Why are we so sad?

As Canada Day nears, the expected attitude is one of gratitude, for clean air, public health care, relative safety and ketchup chips. But Canadians haven’t been feeling so jovial as of late. And for good reason: the cost of groceries is rising, rent is too high and the future feels less certain than it used to. And according to the latest World Happiness Report, that feeling is in the numbers.

Canada, once comfortably among the happiest countries in the world, ranked 25th in the 2026 World Happiness Report. To put the decline in perspective: in 2025, it ranked 18th; in 2021, it ranked 14th; and in 2015, it ranked a now hard to imagine fifth place. (We rank behind the U.S. now, which sits at a slightly loftier 23rd place.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Louis Murder: Hundreds Rally in Narbonne After Brutal Murder of 17-Year-Old Boy

Louis Murder: Hundreds Rally in Narbonne After Brutal Murder of 17-Year-Old Boy

Around 1,000 people marched through the southern French city of Narbonne on Sunday, June 28th, following the death of 17-year-old Louis, who was lynched by a gang of youths.

The march, organised under the slogan ‘Justice for All,’ was promoted on social media by several identitarian groups. Louis’s family declined to take part, saying they wished to avoid any political exploitation of their son’s death.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France

‘It’s dirty, it’s unsafe’: Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford pitches cleaning up, renaming Sankofa Square

‘It’s dirty, it’s unsafe’: Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford pitches cleaning up, renaming Sankofa Square

Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford says Sankofa Square was once the epicentre of the city, the “Canadian version” of Times Square and a place where people would celebrate festivals and gather with friends for a night out.

But now, he says it’s become something of a “wasteland.”

“It’s dirty, it’s unsafe. There’s open drug use in the middle of the afternoon. Tourists avoid it. Parents grab their kids by the hand and move quickly through the space, or even worse, they avoid it altogether,” Bradford said during a press conference on Monday as he pitched his plan to revamp and rename the square at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Will the Germans or South Koreans emerge as Canada’s sub deal winner?

Will the Germans or South Koreans emerge as Canada’s sub deal winner?

Toss in some Korean BBQ and I’m in.[/caption]OTTAWA — Choosing the winning bid for Canada’s next generation submarine fleet is coming down to the wire. Analysts say the race between the two contenders, German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and South Korea’s Hanwha, is too close to call.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously said that a decision would be made before the end of June, but sources tell CTV News that the announcement will be delayed a few days. It will likely come before Carney leaves for the July 7 NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years

New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years

mmigration accounts for as much as 40 percent of U.S. rent increases as the housing affordability crisis continues to plague millions of Americans, according to a forthcoming study shared exclusively with The Federalist.

The paper, “Immigration and Rent: A PUMA-Based Spatial Analysis,” will appear this fall in Cityscape magazine as part of a collection of works exploring the relationship between immigration and housing markets.

I wonder what the numbers would be in Canada?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status

Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status

A charity connected to the controversial group HonestReporting Canada, which claims to expose anti-Israel bias in news media, has launched two court battles against the attempted revocation of its registration by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

HR Canada Charitable Organization (HRCCO) has filed challenges to the revocation in both the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Federal Court of Appeal, according to court records obtained by the IJF and Future of Good.

Lot of this sort of proxy war going on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Joy Reid prefers Juneteenth to July 4th, the date that ultimately freed mankind

Joy Reid prefers Juneteenth to July 4th, the date that ultimately freed mankind

have a bit more to say about former MSNBC host Joy Reid and her former colleague Alex Wagner, who recently engaged in an online conversation comparing Independence Day and Juneteenth.

Reid stated that “nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July” and claimed that her black friends basically treat the Fourth as a day off to barbecue. (That seems racist. Is Reid saying that all blacks like ribs and chicken?)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

King Charles is making a mistake by leaning into multiculturalism

King Charles is making a mistake by leaning into multiculturalism

For hundreds of years, one of the central battlegrounds of British politics has been the role, powers and prerogatives of the Crown. From the Barons’ Wars to the Reformation and the Civil War, we have had a centuries-long argument over what the monarch is for, what they can and can’t do, and where they fit with the rest of the constitution. Various compromises and fudges have emerged in line with the changing social and political environment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

As U.S.-Iranian relations thaw, Ottawa must remember the Islamic regime is not our friend

As U.S.-Iranian relations thaw, Ottawa must remember the Islamic regime is not our friend

Last week, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding meant to end the war that began in February. It extends a ceasefire, reopens the Strait of Hormuz and, most consequentially, clears the way for Iran to resume oil sales. The nuclear questions that started the war are intended to be addressed over the next two months. What Tehran gets now is a reprieve, a free hand to crush dissent at home, a nuclear program left intact for now and money. What Tehran will do with that money should concern us all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran

I escaped Europe’s dying democracies and discovered the real secret to America’s enduring success: AYAAN HIRSI ALI

I escaped Europe’s dying democracies and discovered the real secret to America’s enduring success: AYAAN HIRSI ALI

When I arrived in the Netherlands in 1992, what struck me first wasn’t the weather or the language, but the unmistakable prosperity of Dutch society. Coming from a world defined by scarcity, the visible wealth of Western Europe felt like an alternate reality.

If I were to characterize what I saw in the 1990s with one word, it would be trust.

Voters trusted their democracies. Elections were meaningful, but not existential. Citizens generally saw their choices reflected in policy, particularly when their party won enough seats to shape the governing agenda.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Eby Briefed for Meeting With Vancouver ‘Condo King’ as Rennie Raised Money for Carney — Four Months Before Multi-Billion-Dollar Condo Bailout

Eby Briefed for Meeting With Vancouver ‘Condo King’ as Rennie Raised Money for Carney — Four Months Before Multi-Billion-Dollar Condo Bailout

VANCOUVER – BC Housing records for March 2026 say that Premier David Eby was briefed for a meeting with Vancouver condo marketer Bob Rennie, the industry leader who hosted a February 2026 fundraiser for Prime Minister Mark Carney — attended by at least 17 leading developers — that has now been cited in Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for an ethics investigation into the controversial multi-billion-dollar developer bailout that was announced four months after Eby’s planned meeting with Rennie was documented, The Bureau has learned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Infiltration and Denial: Germany’s Islamism Blind Spot

Infiltration and Denial: Germany’s Islamism Blind Spot

here is good news and bad news when it comes to the debate about the dangers of Islamism in Germany.

The good news first: what could long only be whispered is now being discussed increasingly openly and is finding greater attention. The bad news: the lobby that has allowed this danger to grow to such proportions still exists and continues to reach deep into government and mainstream media circles—and is pushing back with might.

Two quite different news reports, and the way they have been handled, illustrate this.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West