{"id":823017,"date":"2026-07-24T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:24:11","slug":"canada-ecuador-sign-free-trade-deal-that-would-eliminate-tariffs-on-canadian-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823017\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Ecuador sign free trade deal that would eliminate tariffs on Canadian imports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n     Common wisdom says that money can\u2019t buy happiness. But if it could, researchers say, it would cost $155,850, making Canada the 14th most expensive nation in the world to purchase joy.  The slightly tongue-in-cheek study was produced by digital financial services provider Remitly, but based on an actual scientific paper published in 2018 by Purdue University, \u201cadjusted to account for local purchasing power and inflation.\u201d  \u201cTo determine each city and country\u2019s price of happiness, Remitly reverse-engineered figures obtained from Purdue University\u2019s study into the relationship between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Common wisdom says that money can\u2019t buy happiness. But if it could, researchers say, it would cost $155,850,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-823017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}