happiness
This awful year may have reset our ability to appreciate happiness
Experts think that after months of depriving ourselves of everyday pleasures we once took for granted, our newfound appreciation for the little things might actually last beyond 2020
Canada’s happiest people are teenaged boys and elderly women
From the editors: Women over 70 are healthy, happy and enriched by life experience. Boys are ‘self-deluded’ into their own bliss. But it’s those in between who struggle the most.
The secret to happiness? Stop trying to be happy.
We’re safer, richer, healthier—and more miserable—than ever before. What new research reveals about happiness. And how to find it.
The simple secrets to happiness
Turns out a better life rests on habits
Where’s the crime in ‘wasting time’ at university?
Don’t let naysayers derail your dreams. Study what you want.
Why Quebecers are feeling so happy
(A touch of pandemonium helps)
April 15 was the saddest day on Twitter in the last five years
April 15 was a sad day on Twitter. In fact, it was the saddest day in the past five years, according to measurements used by a team of researchers who post their work at Hedonometer.org.
Good news, bad news
Maryland abolishes the death penalty and the UN celebrates the first ‘international day of happiness’
Why are the Chinese so sad?
They are four times richer than they were 20 years ago, yet they find their lives lack meaning and direction
The 10 countries that should be happiest
According to the United Nations, when measured by factors such as life expectancy, income and education, here are the countries that have the most reason to be happy:
Jan Wong dishes on depression in the workplace
Wong’s new book ‘Out of the Blue’ is the first of a new genre: the workplace divorce memoir
Our GDP may be growing, but are we better off?
Canadian Index of Wellbeing’s mixed report