I wonder if they may be confusing cause and effect. The cost of living in Canada's major cities is very high, while salaries are stagnant. The primary cause of that is the elevated price of housing.
The result is that large portions of the population, particularly younger folks, barely have the financial means to survive. This plus extreme weather and an absence of third places means they stay home. What do people do, then? Browse the Internet, social media, TV.
What else are they going to do, realistically? At least in places like Toronto.
I dunno. Leave? The economics increasingly don't make sense here relative to other places in the world.
It is a bizarre spin on the situation here but the executive summary from the World Happiness Report does indeed put "social media" front and center. I guess.. No interest in digging into the minutiae right now.
I agree the economics here don’t make sense, but leave where? The rest of the world has increasingly strange, or at least unattractive, economics too.
The US is a difficult and long process to get a green card. Other English-speaking countries aren’t necessarily better: Australia seems similar in terms of being a natural resource extraction economy with insanely high real estate prices. Same productivity and salary concerns with the UK.
It's trivial to move to the USA on a TN1 from Canada compared to any other visa category.
If you have a job letter, you show up to the airport and CBP can issue it immediately.
This includes software development which is responsible for GDP growth. Which is why 80-90% of CS students at the University of Waterloo immediately move to the USA after graduation.
CBC which gets $1b of tax payer money to promote only the sitting government, which they do none stop, thinks people are unhappy because of social media.
The CBC is reporting the analysis of The World Happiness Report - it's not coming to its own conclusions. Maybe you should read the article and original source yourself before making hasty comments.
I wonder if they may be confusing cause and effect. The cost of living in Canada's major cities is very high, while salaries are stagnant. The primary cause of that is the elevated price of housing.
The result is that large portions of the population, particularly younger folks, barely have the financial means to survive. This plus extreme weather and an absence of third places means they stay home. What do people do, then? Browse the Internet, social media, TV.
What else are they going to do, realistically? At least in places like Toronto.
I dunno. Leave? The economics increasingly don't make sense here relative to other places in the world.
It is a bizarre spin on the situation here but the executive summary from the World Happiness Report does indeed put "social media" front and center. I guess.. No interest in digging into the minutiae right now.
I agree the economics here don’t make sense, but leave where? The rest of the world has increasingly strange, or at least unattractive, economics too.
The US is a difficult and long process to get a green card. Other English-speaking countries aren’t necessarily better: Australia seems similar in terms of being a natural resource extraction economy with insanely high real estate prices. Same productivity and salary concerns with the UK.
It's trivial to move to the USA on a TN1 from Canada compared to any other visa category.
If you have a job letter, you show up to the airport and CBP can issue it immediately.
This includes software development which is responsible for GDP growth. Which is why 80-90% of CS students at the University of Waterloo immediately move to the USA after graduation.
Non-English speaking country? One alternative is the Philippines. Most of the population is able to speak English.
You can replace Canada here with almost any other OECD country and this would be accurate.
Governments and societal institutions love to blame external bugbears. Newspapers are certainly no fans of competition from social media.
CBC which gets $1b of tax payer money to promote only the sitting government, which they do none stop, thinks people are unhappy because of social media.
Terrible.
The CBC is reporting the analysis of The World Happiness Report - it's not coming to its own conclusions. Maybe you should read the article and original source yourself before making hasty comments.