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Canada plummets in ‘best country’ ranking — placing lower than U.S.
In 2021, Canada was No. 1, fell to third the following year, moved back up to second in 2023, then placed fourth in 2024
Author of the article
enette Wilford
Published May 29, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Taxpayers spent $71.4 billion on the federal civil service in the 2024/25 fiscal year — that's up from $39.6 billion a decade ago. Read on.
Taxpayers spent $71.4 billion on the federal civil service in the 2024/25 fiscal year — that's up from $39.6 billion a decade ago. Read on. Photo by Chris Wattie /Reuters
Canada has fallen more than a dozen spots in a “best countries” list, sinking one place below the United States.
U.S. News released its Best Countries rankings for 2025, and Canada placed 19th out of 100 nations.
The U.S. ranked 18th.
At first glance, making the Top 20 is nothing to sneeze at, but given Canada once topped the list not too long ago, it’s quite the rude awakening.
In 2021, Canada was No. 1, fell to third the following year, moved back up to second in 2023, then placed fourth in 2024.
But tumbling 15 spots is a bit of a shock. Or is it?
Rankings measure overall global performance
The list factors in eight metrics: Governance, health, infrastructure, natural environment, opportunity, civic health, culture and tourism, and economic development.
Canada’s governance ranked 18th. While government effectiveness, inflation volatility, passport strength, rule of law and lack of political violence scored high, our country’s tax system and government debt dragged us down.
Meanwhile, Canada’s infrastructure ranked 20th, earning a perfect score for electricity access while scoring poorly on renewable electricity and grid access.
Canada’s economic development fell to 21st, with GDP productivity ranking particularly low.
Canada’s highest ranking was in culture and tourism at eighth, while opportunity came in at 18th.
Health and environment, ruh-roh
The country ranked 27th in both health and civic health.
While Canada earned a perfect score for universal health coverage and ranked highly in infant mortality and life expectancy, its overall health score was dragged down by a lack of physicians and hospital beds.
Canada’s lowest ranking was for its natural environment, placing 63rd largely due to high carbon emissions.
The Top 10 best countries on the list were all in Europe.
In order, they are Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, Finland, Luxembourg and Austria.
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In 2021, Canada was No. 1, fell to third the following year, moved back up to second in 2023, then placed fourth in 2024
Author of the article
enette WilfordPublished May 29, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Taxpayers spent $71.4 billion on the federal civil service in the 2024/25 fiscal year — that's up from $39.6 billion a decade ago. Read on.
Taxpayers spent $71.4 billion on the federal civil service in the 2024/25 fiscal year — that's up from $39.6 billion a decade ago. Read on. Photo by Chris Wattie /Reuters
Canada has fallen more than a dozen spots in a “best countries” list, sinking one place below the United States.
U.S. News released its Best Countries rankings for 2025, and Canada placed 19th out of 100 nations.
The U.S. ranked 18th.
At first glance, making the Top 20 is nothing to sneeze at, but given Canada once topped the list not too long ago, it’s quite the rude awakening.
In 2021, Canada was No. 1, fell to third the following year, moved back up to second in 2023, then placed fourth in 2024.
But tumbling 15 spots is a bit of a shock. Or is it?
Rankings measure overall global performance
The list factors in eight metrics: Governance, health, infrastructure, natural environment, opportunity, civic health, culture and tourism, and economic development.
Canada’s governance ranked 18th. While government effectiveness, inflation volatility, passport strength, rule of law and lack of political violence scored high, our country’s tax system and government debt dragged us down.
Meanwhile, Canada’s infrastructure ranked 20th, earning a perfect score for electricity access while scoring poorly on renewable electricity and grid access.
Canada’s economic development fell to 21st, with GDP productivity ranking particularly low.
Canada’s highest ranking was in culture and tourism at eighth, while opportunity came in at 18th.
Health and environment, ruh-roh
The country ranked 27th in both health and civic health.
While Canada earned a perfect score for universal health coverage and ranked highly in infant mortality and life expectancy, its overall health score was dragged down by a lack of physicians and hospital beds.
Canada’s lowest ranking was for its natural environment, placing 63rd largely due to high carbon emissions.
The Top 10 best countries on the list were all in Europe.
In order, they are Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, Finland, Luxembourg and Austria.
Canada plummets in ‘best country’ ranking — placing lower than U.S.
Canada has fallen more than a dozen spots in a “best countries” list, sinking one place lower than the United States. Read on.
Time to become a Scandinavian?Canada plummets in ‘best country’ ranking — placing lower than U.S.
In 2021, Canada was No. 1, fell to third the following year, moved back up to second in 2023, then placed fourth in 2024
Author of the article
Published May 29, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Taxpayers spent $71.4 billion on the federal civil service in the 2024/25 fiscal year — that's up from $39.6 billion a decade ago. Read on.
Taxpayers spent $71.4 billion on the federal civil service in the 2024/25 fiscal year — that's up from $39.6 billion a decade ago. Read on. Photo by Chris Wattie /Reuters
Canada has fallen more than a dozen spots in a “best countries” list, sinking one place below the United States.
U.S. News released its Best Countries rankings for 2025, and Canada placed 19th out of 100 nations.
The U.S. ranked 18th.
At first glance, making the Top 20 is nothing to sneeze at, but given Canada once topped the list not too long ago, it’s quite the rude awakening.
In 2021, Canada was No. 1, fell to third the following year, moved back up to second in 2023, then placed fourth in 2024.
But tumbling 15 spots is a bit of a shock. Or is it?
Rankings measure overall global performance
The list factors in eight metrics: Governance, health, infrastructure, natural environment, opportunity, civic health, culture and tourism, and economic development.
Canada’s governance ranked 18th. While government effectiveness, inflation volatility, passport strength, rule of law and lack of political violence scored high, our country’s tax system and government debt dragged us down.
Meanwhile, Canada’s infrastructure ranked 20th, earning a perfect score for electricity access while scoring poorly on renewable electricity and grid access.
Canada’s economic development fell to 21st, with GDP productivity ranking particularly low.
Canada’s highest ranking was in culture and tourism at eighth, while opportunity came in at 18th.
Health and environment, ruh-roh
The country ranked 27th in both health and civic health.
While Canada earned a perfect score for universal health coverage and ranked highly in infant mortality and life expectancy, its overall health score was dragged down by a lack of physicians and hospital beds.
Canada’s lowest ranking was for its natural environment, placing 63rd largely due to high carbon emissions.
The Top 10 best countries on the list were all in Europe.
In order, they are Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, Finland, Luxembourg and Austria.
Canada plummets in ‘best country’ ranking — placing lower than U.S.
Canada has fallen more than a dozen spots in a “best countries” list, sinking one place lower than the United States. Read on.
Li'l bitches can't figger out how we dropped below the murkins neither.
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Toronto can't crack top 10 most livable cities in world for third straight year
Global Livability Index ranks Vancouver lone Canadian and North American metropolis near the top of the list
Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Jul 08, 2026 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 2 minute read
The downtown Toronto waterfront skyline.
The downtown Toronto waterfront skyline. Photo by Cynthia McLeod /Toronto Sun
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For the third straight year, Toronto didn’t crack the top 10 most livable cities in the world.
The latest rankings of 173 cities from the Global Livability Index, released Tuesday, saw Vancouver slide up one spot on the list from 2025 to ninth overall, the top Canadian metropolis based on 30 indicators grouped into five categories, which include stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
“Vancouver (Canada), which had led the index for many years, is the only North American city represented,” the survey said. “All of the top 10 have perfect scores for education, with most also scoring 100 for healthcare provision.”
Danish capital Copenhagen was listed as the most livable city for the second year in a row, scoring a perfect 100 in three categories and above 95 in the other two, based on research and analysis from the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is owned by The Economist magazine.
Copenhagen was followed by Vienna, Austria, Melbourne, Australia, Sydney, Australia, and Zurich, Switzerland.
Besides Vancouver, Geneva, Switzerland, Osaka, Japan, Adelaide, Australia, and Tokyo, Japan rounded out the top 10.
Vancouver among top livable cities. TORONTO SUN GRAPHICS
Vancouver among top livable cities. TORONTO SUN GRAPHICS
Top cities had perfect scores for education
The survey, conducted in May, saw cities at the top with perfect scores for education, and most were also given 100 for healthcare.
The survey ranked stability, which looks at the prevalence of petty and violent crime as well as threats of terror, military conflict and civil unrest, with a 25% weight. Healthcare (20%), culture and environment (25%), education (10%), and infrastructure (20%) rounded out the rest of the score.
Toronto has not been ranked in the top 10 since 2023, when it was listed ninth overall behind the seventh-ranked Calgary.
The year before, the city was up one spot in eighth, behind only Calgary and Vancouver.
Toronto saw its highest ranking in the past decade when it was listed fourth overall from 2015 to 2017.
Syria’s capital Damascus, ranked at bottom
Syria’s capital, Damascus, which continues to recover from its civil war, was ranked last with an overall score of 32 out of 100.
Other notable cities at the bottom of the list include Kyiv, Ukraine, which has been at war with Russia, and Iran’s capital, Tehran, after the United States and Israel launched military strikes earlier this year against its leadership and nuclear infrastructure.
“The bottom 10 cities in our index have nearly all been affected by war or poverty, or both, with all scoring particularly poorly for stability,” the report said.
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Global Livability Index ranks Vancouver lone Canadian and North American metropolis near the top of the list
Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Jul 08, 2026 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 2 minute read
The downtown Toronto waterfront skyline.
The downtown Toronto waterfront skyline. Photo by Cynthia McLeod /Toronto Sun
See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source
For the third straight year, Toronto didn’t crack the top 10 most livable cities in the world.
The latest rankings of 173 cities from the Global Livability Index, released Tuesday, saw Vancouver slide up one spot on the list from 2025 to ninth overall, the top Canadian metropolis based on 30 indicators grouped into five categories, which include stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
“Vancouver (Canada), which had led the index for many years, is the only North American city represented,” the survey said. “All of the top 10 have perfect scores for education, with most also scoring 100 for healthcare provision.”
Danish capital Copenhagen was listed as the most livable city for the second year in a row, scoring a perfect 100 in three categories and above 95 in the other two, based on research and analysis from the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is owned by The Economist magazine.
Copenhagen was followed by Vienna, Austria, Melbourne, Australia, Sydney, Australia, and Zurich, Switzerland.
Besides Vancouver, Geneva, Switzerland, Osaka, Japan, Adelaide, Australia, and Tokyo, Japan rounded out the top 10.
Vancouver among top livable cities. TORONTO SUN GRAPHICS
Vancouver among top livable cities. TORONTO SUN GRAPHICS
Top cities had perfect scores for education
The survey, conducted in May, saw cities at the top with perfect scores for education, and most were also given 100 for healthcare.
The survey ranked stability, which looks at the prevalence of petty and violent crime as well as threats of terror, military conflict and civil unrest, with a 25% weight. Healthcare (20%), culture and environment (25%), education (10%), and infrastructure (20%) rounded out the rest of the score.
Toronto has not been ranked in the top 10 since 2023, when it was listed ninth overall behind the seventh-ranked Calgary.
The year before, the city was up one spot in eighth, behind only Calgary and Vancouver.
Toronto saw its highest ranking in the past decade when it was listed fourth overall from 2015 to 2017.
Syria’s capital Damascus, ranked at bottom
Syria’s capital, Damascus, which continues to recover from its civil war, was ranked last with an overall score of 32 out of 100.
Other notable cities at the bottom of the list include Kyiv, Ukraine, which has been at war with Russia, and Iran’s capital, Tehran, after the United States and Israel launched military strikes earlier this year against its leadership and nuclear infrastructure.
“The bottom 10 cities in our index have nearly all been affected by war or poverty, or both, with all scoring particularly poorly for stability,” the report said.
The Global Liveability Index 2026
EIU’s Global Liveability Index evaluates living conditions across 173 cities, providing a globally recognised benchmark for urban liveability and resilience. By measuring indicators across stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, the index quantifies the...
Toronto can't crack top 10 most livable cities in world for third straight year
For the third straight year, Toronto didn't crack the top 10 most livable cities in the world. Read more.
How is Vancouver 9th?Toronto can't crack top 10 most livable cities in world for third straight year
Global Livability Index ranks Vancouver lone Canadian and North American metropolis near the top of the list
Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Jul 08, 2026 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 2 minute read
The downtown Toronto waterfront skyline.
The downtown Toronto waterfront skyline. Photo by Cynthia McLeod /Toronto Sun
See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source
For the third straight year, Toronto didn’t crack the top 10 most livable cities in the world.
The latest rankings of 173 cities from the Global Livability Index, released Tuesday, saw Vancouver slide up one spot on the list from 2025 to ninth overall, the top Canadian metropolis based on 30 indicators grouped into five categories, which include stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
“Vancouver (Canada), which had led the index for many years, is the only North American city represented,” the survey said. “All of the top 10 have perfect scores for education, with most also scoring 100 for healthcare provision.”
Danish capital Copenhagen was listed as the most livable city for the second year in a row, scoring a perfect 100 in three categories and above 95 in the other two, based on research and analysis from the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is owned by The Economist magazine.
Copenhagen was followed by Vienna, Austria, Melbourne, Australia, Sydney, Australia, and Zurich, Switzerland.
Besides Vancouver, Geneva, Switzerland, Osaka, Japan, Adelaide, Australia, and Tokyo, Japan rounded out the top 10.
Vancouver among top livable cities. TORONTO SUN GRAPHICS
Vancouver among top livable cities. TORONTO SUN GRAPHICS
Top cities had perfect scores for education
The survey, conducted in May, saw cities at the top with perfect scores for education, and most were also given 100 for healthcare.
The survey ranked stability, which looks at the prevalence of petty and violent crime as well as threats of terror, military conflict and civil unrest, with a 25% weight. Healthcare (20%), culture and environment (25%), education (10%), and infrastructure (20%) rounded out the rest of the score.
Toronto has not been ranked in the top 10 since 2023, when it was listed ninth overall behind the seventh-ranked Calgary.
The year before, the city was up one spot in eighth, behind only Calgary and Vancouver.
Toronto saw its highest ranking in the past decade when it was listed fourth overall from 2015 to 2017.
Syria’s capital Damascus, ranked at bottom
Syria’s capital, Damascus, which continues to recover from its civil war, was ranked last with an overall score of 32 out of 100.
Other notable cities at the bottom of the list include Kyiv, Ukraine, which has been at war with Russia, and Iran’s capital, Tehran, after the United States and Israel launched military strikes earlier this year against its leadership and nuclear infrastructure.
“The bottom 10 cities in our index have nearly all been affected by war or poverty, or both, with all scoring particularly poorly for stability,” the report said.
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Torontonians fleeing city in droves, new TMU report suggests
Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, from the fastest growing metro area to just No. 443 in North America
Author of the article:Justin Holmes
Published Jul 09, 2026 • 3 minute read
Truck pulling U-Haul
Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, going from the fastest growing metro area to just No. 443 in North America. Photo by Adobe Stock
New data out of Toronto Metropolitan University shows that Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, going from the fastest growing metro area in the United States and Canada all the way down to No. 443 last year.
The report, from TMU’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development, says while a drop in international migration was a factor – it also brought Montreal and Vancouver far down the list – the big cause is that Toronto is bleeding residents to other parts of Canada.
“Toronto ranked 443rd out of 471 metropolitan areas, after ranking first in 2024 during a year of record population growth caused by a tidal wave of immigration,” the report, posted to the centre’s blog this week, says.
The centre did not respond to a request for comment from the Toronto Sun.
Authors blame high cost of living
In the report’s conclusion, the authors blame Toronto’s population pains on its high cost of living.
“Toronto’s sharp population slowdown reflects a combination of factors, including a reduction in immigration. However, the city’s rank among other North American cities reflects sharp trends in out-migration of its existing population,” the report says.
That outflow appears to be just barely larger than the total number of births and new immigrants in Toronto in 2025.
“As the region attracted newcomers from around the world at lower rates than in 2024,” the report adds, “increasingly unaffordable housing appears to be pushing many residents to other parts of Canada.”
The campaign office of Olivia Chow, who is seeking another term as Toronto mayor, ignored a request for comment from the Sun.
The man who polls say is the other front-runner for the job, Brad Bradford, suggested the authors’ conclusion rings true.
“Toronto is losing a competitive battle to cities across North America because we’ve made it too expensive to live here,” Bradford said in a statement to the Sun. “While city hall has been raising taxes and creating more congestion, other cities are pulling ahead, actively attracting the young families and workers Toronto should be winning.
“Under Mayor Chow’s leadership, we are watching talent, investment and opportunity leave because the cost of living in Toronto is too high.”
Domestic migration chart
Better on the U.S.’s sunny side
The centre’s report is based on data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau, and its figures for last year are based on the 12 months ending on July 1, 2025.
The report says while Canada’s immigration totals fell in 2025, Toronto still saw “one of the strongest rates of international migration” among large North American cities – No. 5, behind only metropolitan New York, Miami, Houston and Dallas.
“However, the region also continued to lose residents to other parts of Canada at a very high rate, resulting in negative net domestic migration,” the report adds.
Metros in the southern U.S., many of them in Texas and Florida, dominate the report’s lists.
The top three fastest growing metros across the U.S. and Canada for 2025 were Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, the report says. Calgary and Edmonton came in seventh and eighth, respectively.
Meanwhile, Canada’s other big metros also fell hard in that ranking, although not as far as Toronto. Montreal went from fifth in 2024 to No. 25, while Vancouver plummeted from sixth to 92nd.
The data makes it look like Canadian cities have trouble getting other Canucks to move in. The report’s top 10 list for net domestic migration is made up entirely of warm-weather metros, with Charlotte, N.C., ranked No. 1.
“Not a single Canadian metropolitan area made the top ranking” for net domestic migration, the report says.
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Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, from the fastest growing metro area to just No. 443 in North America
Author of the article:Justin Holmes
Published Jul 09, 2026 • 3 minute read
Truck pulling U-Haul
Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, going from the fastest growing metro area to just No. 443 in North America. Photo by Adobe Stock
New data out of Toronto Metropolitan University shows that Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, going from the fastest growing metro area in the United States and Canada all the way down to No. 443 last year.
The report, from TMU’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development, says while a drop in international migration was a factor – it also brought Montreal and Vancouver far down the list – the big cause is that Toronto is bleeding residents to other parts of Canada.
“Toronto ranked 443rd out of 471 metropolitan areas, after ranking first in 2024 during a year of record population growth caused by a tidal wave of immigration,” the report, posted to the centre’s blog this week, says.
The centre did not respond to a request for comment from the Toronto Sun.
Authors blame high cost of living
In the report’s conclusion, the authors blame Toronto’s population pains on its high cost of living.
“Toronto’s sharp population slowdown reflects a combination of factors, including a reduction in immigration. However, the city’s rank among other North American cities reflects sharp trends in out-migration of its existing population,” the report says.
That outflow appears to be just barely larger than the total number of births and new immigrants in Toronto in 2025.
“As the region attracted newcomers from around the world at lower rates than in 2024,” the report adds, “increasingly unaffordable housing appears to be pushing many residents to other parts of Canada.”
The campaign office of Olivia Chow, who is seeking another term as Toronto mayor, ignored a request for comment from the Sun.
The man who polls say is the other front-runner for the job, Brad Bradford, suggested the authors’ conclusion rings true.
“Toronto is losing a competitive battle to cities across North America because we’ve made it too expensive to live here,” Bradford said in a statement to the Sun. “While city hall has been raising taxes and creating more congestion, other cities are pulling ahead, actively attracting the young families and workers Toronto should be winning.
“Under Mayor Chow’s leadership, we are watching talent, investment and opportunity leave because the cost of living in Toronto is too high.”
Domestic migration chart
Better on the U.S.’s sunny side
The centre’s report is based on data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau, and its figures for last year are based on the 12 months ending on July 1, 2025.
The report says while Canada’s immigration totals fell in 2025, Toronto still saw “one of the strongest rates of international migration” among large North American cities – No. 5, behind only metropolitan New York, Miami, Houston and Dallas.
“However, the region also continued to lose residents to other parts of Canada at a very high rate, resulting in negative net domestic migration,” the report adds.
Metros in the southern U.S., many of them in Texas and Florida, dominate the report’s lists.
The top three fastest growing metros across the U.S. and Canada for 2025 were Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, the report says. Calgary and Edmonton came in seventh and eighth, respectively.
Meanwhile, Canada’s other big metros also fell hard in that ranking, although not as far as Toronto. Montreal went from fifth in 2024 to No. 25, while Vancouver plummeted from sixth to 92nd.
The data makes it look like Canadian cities have trouble getting other Canucks to move in. The report’s top 10 list for net domestic migration is made up entirely of warm-weather metros, with Charlotte, N.C., ranked No. 1.
“Not a single Canadian metropolitan area made the top ranking” for net domestic migration, the report says.
jholmes@postmedia.com
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Torontonians fleeing city in droves, new TMU report suggests
Toronto’s population growth has seen a dramatic swing since 2024, from fastest growing metro area to No. 443 in North America. Read more.