EP 238: Eddie Sheppard on Canada's Precarity Mindset
04 March 2026

EP 238: Eddie Sheppard on Canada's Precarity Mindset

Lean Out with Tara Henley

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In recent years, the world has become an increasingly unstable place. Our guest on the program this week says that Canadians have adopted a “precarity mindset.” And now, roughly nine out of ten Canadians believe this uncertainty is here to stay — that it is, in fact, the new normal.

Eddie Sheppard is executive vice president at Abacus Data. His analysis for Abacus is From Crisis to Condition: The Psychology of Canadian Uncertainty.

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