Congratulations to Dr. Sonia Anand and team on their new article in PLOS Public Health, “Who Thrives in Canada: An Examination of Social Factors, Healthcare Access, and Immigration Status.” The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds is a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the impact of community level factors, health behaviours and access to health services on cognitive function, subclinical vascular disease, fat distribution, and the development of chronic disease. This study investigates the factors that influence subjective well-being. In the overall sample, higher life satisfaction was associated with older age, male sex, having trusted neighbours, and having a language-concordant family doctor. Lower life satisfaction was associated with social disadvantage, being female, having poorer cardiovascular health, being unable to afford prescription medications, seeking care in an emergency department, and being racialized. Although Canada has amongst the highest life-satisfaction scores globally, the average masks persistent inequities as racialized people, and particularly racialized immigrants have lower life satisfaction than non-racialized people. The findings highlight actionable levers—language-concordant primary care attachment, affordable medications, neighbourhood trust, and improved cardiometabolic health—that can be targeted to close the observed well-being gap.