Canadian community does not always look the way you expect it to. Sometimes it is 21 men eating eggs at seven in the morning on garbage day, no agenda, no minutes, just life.

The group has been running for 17 years in a village where strangers stop to introduce themselves on the street. The newest member sat down this week for the first time and walked away wondering if he should have found a table like this a long time ago.

National Post data puts Canadian life satisfaction at 46.1% nationally in Q2 2025. Quebec leads at 57%. Alberta sits lowest at 38.1%. The gap between the top and the bottom of the country is not small.

Topics: Canadian community, small town life, life satisfaction Canada 2025, Merrickville Ontario, belonging

Originally aired on 2026-05-13