SHIFTHEADS: Is Canada Winning If Your Family Is Still Struggling?

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Oct 28, 2026 · 9m

Canada’s future might look brighter without your daily life feeling any easier. Columnist Matt Gurney offers a way to weigh encouraging national developments against the pressures that still follow you home.

Start with your ballot. Your community chose change, another kept its mayor, and somewhere else nobody challenged the incumbent. What can those choices actually tell you about where the country is heading? Matt pushes back on the urge to make them one story.

But ask whether Canada has reasons for optimism, and his answer changes. There’s a case he’s willing to make, with…