"More Canadians are opting to live alone ... as women become better able to foot the household bills by themselves."

Given how insufferable modern women have become they don't really have a choice. 

What man with his eyes open is going to walk into a relationship that just sets him up for divorce rape - he loses his house, his home, his children, half his savings, half his income for the next 10 or 20 years, etc., etc. Nope, nope, nope.