Finding Unexpected News Today

A large body of research backs up the idea that people get happier as they age.

Article content I had planned to write this month about reverse mortgages until smitten by the story of Ellis Craig, an 83-year-old resident of a Perth, Ont., retirement home. One day he realized Canada had not had a good singalong patriotic song since Bobby Gimby’s Ca-na-da in our centennial year. That’s other than, of course, O Canada, the words of which have been changed it seems for “politically correct” reasons since I first learned it in 1952. In Holland, the country of my birth, ...