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After typing many brands of paint, I' now swear by SICO Cashmere (also the same paint sold as RONA Collection).
It applies evenly in a thin but well saturated coat of colour. Often one will do, even for dark colours - you get solid coverage. It's no VOC so there's no "paint smell" that lingers afterwards. It comes as a "washable flat" - it has a washable texture that still gives the matte appearance of flat paint. I like it because it dries very sheer and doesnt make your wall's sharp crisp edges look heavily built-up or or blobby like I found Behr paint to do (that paint applies very thick).
If you buy the RONA brand it is very competitive with mid-price paints (around 30 to 35$ a gallon). The SICO branded paint is around $40 to $45.
As for the worst paint I've used.. Glidden - Canada's Pride, aka the cheap(est) paint. It's just awful. After trying to repaint dark-coloured doors to white (which I primed, twice), after 4 coats the original colour still was clearly visible. I switched to Moore Spec to finish the job - the doors ended up needing some adjustments from all the added paint as many would no longer fit in the door frame.