Alright, here’s the real year-end vibe.
It’s December. The roads are a mess, daylight disappears at four in the afternoon, and everybody’s running on a mix of caffeine, stress, and Christmas to-do lists. And if you’ve felt like this year has been heavier than it should have been, you’re not imagining it.
The theme of 2025 was “Pressure.”
Pressure at the grocery store, where you grab the same stuff you always do and somehow the bill is higher again. Pressure when you open your utility bill and you already know it’s going to sting. Pressure when the car needs something, the kid needs something, the house needs something, and you’re sitting there thinking, didn’t I just pay off the last surprise expense?
Cost of living is not a talking point anymore. It’s just daily life. A lot of Canadians are doing everything right and still feeling like they’re falling behind. Not because they stopped working hard, but because the basics got expensive and stayed expensive. When people can’t get ahead, they stop planning. They stop taking chances. They stop feeling optimistic. And that’s a bigger problem than any one price tag.
And then, because we can’t help ourselves, we turned the whole year into a political food fight.
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