by Sandi Martin | May 23, 2019 | Design Thinking, Investing, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
“How should I think about investing?” is a question I wish a lot more people would ask. Why? Because there is so much more to investing – investing well – than what you should put in your portfolio and who you should get to manage it for you. Oh great, I...
by Sandi Martin | May 14, 2019 | Personal Finance
If you like the idea of rental income, you may like the idea of dividend income – but is it really better than taking capital gains? Dirk Cotton takes you through the economic theory, behaviour, and history of these two strategies. In “Get More From Your Financial...
by Julia Chung | Apr 23, 2019 | Income Tax, Personal Finance
Don’t you just LOVE tax season? No? You’re not alone. Really, Sandi is the only person who loves tax season. It’s one of the many reasons we keep her around. Someone has to like it. In fact, she likes it so much that she’s been volunteering in her community tax...
by Julia Chung | Apr 22, 2019 | Design Thinking, Income Tax, Personal Finance
Yum… taxes. As Canadians, we may have love-hate relationships with taxes. Or, like many of our cousins to the south, just flat-out hate-hate relationships. Regardless of how we might feel about taxes, they’re a part of our lives. We can choose to ignore them, we...
by Julia Chung | Mar 25, 2019 | Budgets, CPP, Monthly Spring Update, Personal Finance
Budgets, budgets and more budgets. The Federal Budget was released on March 19, and you can find our summary here. Some provinces have already released their annual budgets and more are rolling in. If you’re reading as many finance newsletters as we are, you’ll have...
by Julia Chung | Mar 25, 2019 | Budgets, Home Buyer's Plan, Income Tax, Personal Finance, Retirement
Every spring, the Federal Government comes out with their budget for the year – all the ways they’ll be putting our tax dollars to use and running this national operation. They often have a news release in fall that telegraphs some of the things they’re thinking...
