Lifelong Learning

How do we become happy?  It's a question that has been asked since the dawn of time and attempted to be answered by philosophers, gurus, psychologists, and scientists. Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research, and happiness economics. More recently – by the  United Nations  through their  World Happiness Report  (WHR). Its a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The report looks at six key variables to come to a happiness score:  income, freedom, trust in government, healthy life expectancy, social support from family and friends, and generosity . In the  World Happiness Report for the year 2020 , Nordic countries – Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland, consistently are the top performers along with noticeable other performers incl

Amazing facts about Canada  Canada is the second-largest country in the world Canada is the largest country in the Western hemisphere and the second-largest country in the world after Russia and borders only one country, the United States of America (the United States and Canada share the longest (stretching 8,891 kilometers (5,525 mi)) international “demilitarized/unprotected” border in the world, they have stood by as friendly neighbors for over 200 years. Here are some facts about Canada to put its breathtaking scale into perspective: It’s bigger than the entire European Union (33 times bigger than Italy and 15 times bigger than France), more than 30 percent larger than Australia, five times as big as Mexico, three times as big as India. Canada has six time zones. The longest highway in the world is the  Trans-Canada Highway  which is over 7,604 kilometers (4,725 miles) in length. image from :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada#/me