That great and totally vague measure of affluence known as the Canadian Index of Wellbeing has popped up in a study about travel times to work. Government money from the Trillium Foundation went into this piece of academic busy-work. It says GTA residents average about an hour getting to and from work each day. “Those living in Toronto commute 65.6 minutes, those in Oshawa 63.6 minutes, and Barrie residents commute 59.2 minutes,” reads the first Ontario-focused CIW study titled “How Are Ontarians Really Doing?” Oh dear. The burden of it all. We suppose that the CIW might quiver a bit if our teeth were falling out or there was a foot of water in the basement but, you know, driving to work in traffic is pretty awful too. Glad we’re spending money on worrying about it. Global News takes it all quite seriously.
