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A few days ago I was at my local TD as I was going to make a significant lump sum payment towards my mortgage. When the banker saw what the amount I'd be paying...
Employees at Twitter were hit with widespread layoffs at the social media company on Friday, as new owner Elon Musk makes good on this threat to rein in costs. In a letter to employees obtained...
Shareholders liked what Canadian Natural Resources had to say the most, as the company announced it was raising its dividend by 13%, making it a 45% increase overall this year. With the stock up...
To help students, Freeland announced the government will make all Canada Student Loans and Canada Apprentice Loans permanently interest-free — including those currently being repaid. This change has an estimated cost of $2.7 billion...
The federal government wants Canadian companies to spend more of their own money to invest in their businesses and help grow the economy, so it’s bringing in a new tax on corporations when they...
What’s the worst money advice you’ve ever received? If you get a paycheque, you should just put it in your savings account and let it sit there. Or, that you should work with the...
Stablecoins are digital currencies pegged one-to-one with a fiat currency (money declared by a government to be legal tender), most often the U.S. dollar. The most famous stablecoins in the world are Circle’s USDC,...
Being proactive and disciplined about meeting at least your minimum payments—and more, whenever possible—is essential to settling your debt. Overestimating what you can afford to pay, however, can create an untenable financial situation that...
My wife and I recently sold a condo in Hamilton and we had an excellent selling agent. The condo was on the market for about a month and she arranged many viewing and had...
“Revenge spending” was definitely a thing last year, with Canadians eager to indulge after nearly a year of scarcity. But these days, with inflation staying stubbornly high, the cost of food, rent, mortgages and...
