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The Globe and Mail’s Happiness Reporter Erin Anderssen is embarking on a year-long project to interview the “happiest people in Canada,” nominated by the people who know them best, through work, friendship and family.
Who is the happiest person you know?
Maybe it’s someone who seems especially resilient through adversity. A friend who has found the secret to savouring life. A person with wisdom and optimism to share. Young and old, from all walks of life – who lifts your spirits? Who teaches you how to find your own happiness?
The Globe will collect your nominations, and Happiness Reporter Erin Anderssen will interview some of the “happiest people in Canada” to share stories and life lessons.
If you have someone like that in your life, please send a short paragraph about them and why you consider them the happiest person you know in the box below, or e-mail your nomination to eanderssen@globeandmail.com. You will be contacted to obtain your nominee’s permission to be interviewed and named in the story.
Who is the happiest person you know?
Some people seem to approach life with a contagious measure of cheerfulness. They respond to adversity with resilience. And they appear to consistently experience joy in small, but important ways.
As part of a year-long investigation of happiness, The Globe and Mail's Erin Anderssen is embarking on a project to interview the "happiest people in Canada," nominated by the people who know them, through work, friendship and family.
To add a name to this list, please send a short paragraph about them and why you consider them the happiest person you know in the box below, or email it to eanderssen@globeandmail.com.
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