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A Love Letter To Financial Planning (from an opera singing farmboy)
A few years ago I can honestly say I had given zero thought to what constituted a ‘financial planner’. I honestly didn’t care. A financial planner seemed like something for other people. People with tons of money and complicated financial situations. They were for...
11 Free Things You’ll Miss Out On If You Don’t Attend The Canadian Financial Summit
1) All of the housing stuff Seriously… all of it. There is no hotter topic in Canada today than what the heck is going on in real estate, and we’ve got it covered from all angles. Desirae Odjick has handcrafted a resource that explains precise step-by-step...
Top 5 Credit Cards for Millennials
Sure, “millennials” include everyone from a 32-year-old born in 1985 to a 17-year-old applying to university, but there are still some common factors between them – and that means credit card advice aimed at Baby Boomers isn’t always going to help millennials get...
The Complete Guide to Canada’s Best Online Banks
Canada’s online banks are growing not only in number of competitors, but also in services offered, and ease of use as well. This is great news if you: Hate driving to a bank branch. Can’t stand waiting in lines. Don’t enjoy paying ever-increasing fees to access...
The Canadian Financial Summit: 25+ Experts & No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem
I Love Conferences. You get to meet interesting people, learn new things, and escape the day-to-day routines of life for a few days. I Hate Conferences. I detest: waiting in security lines, babies crying on planes, delayed flights, spending hundreds of dollars on...
How Efficiency became my favourite ‘eff’ word
Way before I fell in love with music, I fell in love with words. It started off with the amazing children’s stories of Enid Blyton, E.B. White, and Madelaine L’Engle, and then as I got older, it grew to include the great poets: Shakespeare, E.E. Cummings, Pablo...
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