Finland has been ranked as the happiest country in the world for the sixth consecutive year.

Also, here is a photo of the five leaders of Finland's largest political parties.

#SomeGoodNews

@Miriamm
That's why Canada needs to elect Liberal Chrystia Freeland to the PM office soon for a happier Canada! But then again a third of Canada's voting population are conservatives, so they will all be miserable 🤣

@walterdunham @Miriamm I'm unconvinced Freeland would change much. Another stalwart defender of the primacy of status-quo wealth, like Trudeau, Harper, and other PMs back decades.

Open to pitches though.

@johnefrancis @Miriamm
Your only possible alternative is Skippy or Jag ... pick your poison 🤣

@walterdunham @Miriamm well it's definitely not Skippy.

So it's Jag and the local NDP candidate, as far as voting goes.

There's no need to limit political activity to actual political campaigns and parties...that's a system that's setup to fail Canadians and it's a waste of time. Build movements on ideas, and the spineless political system will follow.

@johnefrancis @Miriamm And that, my friend, is my perennial "minor" issue with our electiral process. We vote for the party not the person. We sometimes find ourselves NOT voting for a very good and qualified MP for fear that his stupid party leader might become PM and worse, vice-versa!

@walterdunham @Miriamm it was the black-and-white promise of electoral reform that brought Trudeau in...never supported them again after they reneged on it...and there's no way they can credibly promise it now.

I have enough faith in the courts/charter to allow conservatives to experience the brunt of their self-inflicted pain, there's not much left that they can burn down, maybe a few tax points. 40+ years of economic neoliberalism has almost run it's course.

@johnefrancis @Miriamm
At this point in time it's anyone but conservatives for me! The only issue is Jag's NDP does not have the countrywide support to get to the office. As for those MFs conservatives, they have really run themselves to the ground and deep down the rabbit hole!
@walterdunham eh, PP's been penciled in to a US cartoon, but it's not far off the mark.