New research suggests Canada’s housing crisis is eroding life satisfaction among young adults across the country, with one in five reporting shelter insecurity in recent years.
The researchers interpret the evidence as “indicating that the happiness crisis among young Canadians is, to a large degree, an economic crisis”.
Shortly before the call to prayer, the guards will lead Matin Mohammadi out and into the light one last time. He’ll be jolted awake by the clanging of his cell’s iron door, as he is most mornings, taken into the prison courtyard and hanged.
It’s the fear that occupies the 17-year-old’s mind when he goes to sleep in Ghezel Hesar prison just west of Tehran, waking each morning to mark another day survived but still on borrowed time.
Brampton, a fast-growing city west of Toronto, is at the heart of Canada’s mortgage troubles as a growing number of homeowners miss loan payments and lenders force the sale of their homes.
The municipality has the highest mortgage delinquency rate among larger Canadian cities, according to data from Equifax Canada. And its rate of delinquencies – defined as at least 90 days of missed payments – has been rising at a faster pace than in the rest of the country.
Volodymyr Zelensky has scrapped open-ended military contracts to attract new recruits.
Ukraine’s army has consistently struggled with severe manpower shortages, with troops spending months at a time on the front line and recruiters dragging civilian men off the street to force them into service.
In an attempt to make the military more attractive, the Ukrainian president on Friday promised to increase soldiers’ pay and make it possible for them to be discharged after a set period.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney is rejecting the notion that Canada might use energy or critical minerals as “leverage” in upcoming trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
The prime minister made the remarks in an interview with The Canadian Press, his first since declaring he would enter federal politics more than a year ago.
Carney said he wouldn’t describe those sectors as “leverage” since Canada is not talking about stopping any sort of existing trade.
Iran has passed a new proposal to Pakistani mediators in the latest effort to end the war with the US, but Donald Trump said he was not “satisfied” by it.
“Right now, we have talks going on, they’re not getting there,” he told reporters, adding that his options remained “either blast them away or make a deal”.
Trump did not elaborate on what he saw as the latest proposal’s shortcomings, but said: “They’re asking for things I can’t agree to.”
Canada is not supposed to have a food problem.
It is a country defined by its capacity to produce—vast agricultural land, reliable water, and generations of farmers who have sustained both. For most Canadians, food has been stable, available, and dependable.
That has not been an assumption. It has been a lived reality. That reality is now under strain.
Germany is so far gone that even immigrants have their own jokes about themselves all being on welfare while the natives work to pay for their lifestyle.
I will never understand this continent's willingness to put itself into servitude for the entire third world.
It's sad. pic.twitter.com/DMKzpTS202
— ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 1, 2026
Two young leftist students believe slavery was invented by the British.. this is how brain washed our children are becoming due to far left rhetoric in our school system pic.twitter.com/vH59GdtLtv
— Dpaudits (@dpaudits) April 29, 2026
Canada has always liked to tell itself a flattering story about space. We built the Canadarm. We have serious engineers. We have respected astronauts. We punch above our weight. All true.
But there has always been one glaring omission in the national mythology: Canada still cannot launch its own payloads into orbit from Canadian soil. Even now, despite all the lofty rhetoric, we have had to rely on other countries actually to get the job done.
THE beleaguered World Health Organization is pressuring low-income member states in Geneva over its plan to run the global infrastructure for future pandemics. Agreeing a draft treaty caused significant division last year, but now the annexes of that draft have to be agreed or it will not be adopted and will not then apply to members.
OTTAWA — A Postmedia-Leger poll published this week shows the Conservatives narrowing the gap slightly with the Liberals, but satisfaction with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s performance remains high among Canadians overall.
Forty-eight per cent of Canadians said they support the Liberals, compared with 37 per cent for the Conservatives, when asked which political party they would vote for if a federal election were held today. That amounts to an increase of three percentage points for the Conservatives compared with a similar poll conducted eight weeks ago.
On Thursday night, the day after the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London, Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward was asked a simple question on the BBC’s Question Time. ‘You’ve stated you’ve seen racial hatred in this country’, said a member of the audience. ‘Could you please specify where that hatred is coming from?’
This is the way. Get them to be specific and they fall apart. pic.twitter.com/3mQUhSfoyK
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) May 1, 2026
Canada’s high youth unemployment rate flies in the face of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s boast about the “resilience” of the economy in the government’s spring economic update this week.
While high unemployment is a concern across all age groups, Statistics Canada’s most recent labour force survey reported that the youth unemployment rate of 13.8% in March was more than double the national average of 6.7%.
I’m not a lawyer, nor is that a profession I especially admire. When I think of lawyers I think of the American Justice system, and when I think of that I begin to dwell on cases like the Charlie Kirk assassination and the treatment of Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson.
Kirk was murdered on September 10, 2025, and yet Robinson’s trial may not begin for another six months. That’s one and a half years since the soyboy with an enormous drop jaw (look at his profile) climbed to that rooftop in Orem, Utah and shot and killed a man in the prime of life. When Kirk was assassinated, he was explaining to the outdoor audience at Utah Valley University the dangers of transgender ideology.
