With day light savings behind us, we are fast approaching spring in a week. We need to wake up from the winter doldrums and take a refreshed approach to the year. This should include your finances. We all should make […]
After discussing how to prioritize debt repayment in our last post, our third post is the taunting task on how to repay credit cards. Try as you might, do you find you just can’t seem to pay down your credit […]
Continuing on from our last blog entry about drilling down on your debt, the second in our blog series discusses the next important concept on how to prioritize debt repayment. After all, we have so many dollars in our billfold. […]
Its an austere fact in Canada that our personal level of indebtedness is amongst the highest in the world. In other words, Statistics Canada said, household debt as a percentage of disposable income rose to 170.7 per cent in the […]
I was writing a post for my Northern River Reflection feature this morning. As I reflected on the incomprehensible level of negativity in our news feeds today caused by the state of a democratically challenged southern neighbour and the world […]
So here we are. 2020 is behind us, a definitely forgettable year for most. 2021 has arrived and most people are in post holiday exhaustion and getting into their work life routine again. The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone for a […]
We are a few days away from that special day of the year everyone looks to for spending time with family and friends, sharing special greetings, and exchanging thoughts and tokens of our love and appreciation. But like anything in […]
As we approach the end of the year, a year most of us would rather forget, it may be an opportunity to sit down and take stock of our financial life goals and our position relative to them. In fact, […]
I often have people who tell me how it is unfair that some people have money and some don’t. In this case, I am speaking to people that have made their money not those where wealth has transferred through the […]
I had a phone call last week from a client who informed me that they had been diagnosed with cancer. Fortunately, at this point, it is an isolated non-aggressive type of cancer. This couple had been through a cancer journey […]