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From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 3, 2021 at 11:39 am ET
Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday and that means that Wednesday being Ash Wednesday, and thus Lent begins for we Christians.
Lent can be used for spiritual reasons, but it can also be used for self improvement and ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 1, 2021 at 7:03 am ET
A quieter week had some interesting news but February starts quieter than January did.
We found out yesterday that the Canadian Federal government is only $508 in the red thanks to it paying down the debt ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 31, 2021 at 8:03 am ET
I found a few years back that the time I spend commuting and running errands as time lost. I wasn’t doing anything, so I decided to start to listen to books on cassette. Over the ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 30, 2021 at 7:06 am ET
From the archives and now from the new Favorites page, one of my favorite financial metaphors (note that Carleton is now the 5 time Canadian Champions):
Don’t Pass it to the Other Team!
So one of my ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 29, 2021 at 7:02 am ET
As part of the capping of my pension and putting me into a different kind of pension, my company automatically put me in the stock purchase plan, where every quarter the company will allow ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 28, 2021 at 9:22 am ET
After chatting with a parent at a basketball yesterday it struck me that there might be some folk who do not fully understand all of the tax deductions and features that are available to them, ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 27, 2021 at 6:54 am ET
“True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense”
Emanuel Swedenborg quotes
Haven’t really done a Sunday posting for a while, so let me write a few thoughts.
Do you give regularly ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 25, 2021 at 8:24 am ET
This week was full of downs and then ups on the market and was a big one for me, appearing on a cross Canada morning radio show, so kind of a cool week:
To end the ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 24, 2021 at 9:43 am ET
If you are carrying debt with a bank, you were just given a gift (a huge gift if you live in the U.S.), because the banks have lowered their interest rates yet again on loans. ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 23, 2021 at 8:06 am ET
That was an interesting expression I heard a financial pundit make once, about a short lived rebound in the markets, during a severe down turn, and it is very true, was yesterday a recovery? I ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 22, 2021 at 11:32 am ET
For those of you not listening to CBC Radio One that is the highlight of my analysis about the current Stock Market fun. The host Kevin Sylvester was very kind to me and led me ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 21, 2021 at 1:37 pm ET
So this weekend was a very good for many reasons for me.
I got to watch my daughter’s basketball team play very well and pick up a silver medal at a tournament (so that is always ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 18, 2021 at 6:20 am ET
Another Friday arrives with some things to think about this week.
A bad week for investments with the TSX down 900 points in three days. Is this the bottom? I have no idea, I’ll tell you ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 17, 2021 at 8:22 am ET
It’s RRSP time.. you can almost make up a song about that (sung to the tune of “It’s Howdy Doody Time”, but I digress.
What are your plans for RRSP’s this year? I buy RRSP’s little ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 16, 2021 at 8:58 am ET
The Bleak Winter Days
This time of the financial year for me is always dark, not just because days are so short here in Ottawa:
My pay is lower due to CPP and EI coming back on ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 15, 2021 at 9:07 am ET
Where has all the money gone?
So this topic comes from a comment from my friend Michael James on commenting on my “self pitying” posting of getting older yesterday. The quip is actually quite topical, I ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 14, 2021 at 9:25 am ET
This past weekend saw me get a year older, and it struck me how much closer I am to the end of my working days. How much closer, I am not sure, but I am ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 12, 2021 at 12:37 pm ET
Is this thrifty? Frugal? Cheap? A while ago I wrote about how I had become my mother and yet I continue to do things like pictured above. What is this a picture of?
When you have ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 11, 2021 at 6:34 am ET
Some thoughts for a Friday.
New housing prices continue to hold steady with a 6.1% year over year price increase according to Stats Canada (up to November 2007). Most expensive year over year jumps were in ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 10, 2021 at 8:20 am ET
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is asking that very question. How can the economic measures done include the relative happiness of the populous in the economic growth ?
Interesting question but who cares? If there is ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 9, 2021 at 8:00 am ET
Since I have started with the new site I have had a few new folks ask me questions about, where should I invest my money, let me be very clear, I have no bloody idea ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 8, 2021 at 6:48 am ET
Over the holidays I channeled my inner David Suzuki and decided I needed to deal with some of the bigger trash issues in my house. I am a pack rat when it comes to High ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 7, 2021 at 6:48 am ET
Sometimes good habits start happening and you don't notice that you are doing them. What do I mean?
When I stopped biting my finger nails, I started over a Christmas vacation and when I got back ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 6, 2021 at 5:17 am ET
I only have a few specific areas where I make donations year over year. I was surprised at how much my small givings impacts my final tax bill, and hopefully the money and time given ... ( more)
From Canadian Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 5, 2021 at 12:48 pm ET
A quieter week to start the New Year of 2008 with not too much going on, however a few interesting notes:
Fuel prices continue to soar in Eastern Ontario and Oil on the worldwide market continues ... ( more)
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