From the Blog Archives. Originally published Sept 2014. If January is all about resolutions, September is all about education. And not just for the kids. In the span of a week, I’ve had two clients in my office seeking financial advice on going back to school. Both are currently employed in well-paying and – by
My oldest child turned 19 this month. I am not sure how this happened as I have not aged a day since he was born. Queue laughter from the audience! All joking aside, while my son is still very much “a dependent”, his eventual flight from the nest has me thinking a lot lately about
He had always worked. Even when work was scarce at home, he made the trek up along and always managed to snag a paycheck somewhere, doing something. Once – on a job hunting trip to Ontario – his brother in law hooked him up with a decent union job at one of the car plants.
If you miss the RRSP contribution deadline, fret not. You’ve lost the opportunity to claim any additional RRSP contributions for the tax year, but you have not lost the ability to tap into that room in the future. Imagine that. You don’t always lose what you don’t use! Since 1991 when CRA capped how much
Regular readers of this blog will know I am not much of a shopper. With the exception of the gift closet I kept stocked when both my children were in daycare and we were averaging two birthday parties a week, I usually buy things as I need them. I am not a shopper, but I
Investment trends can be so fickle sometimes, it scares me. In the early 1990’s, RRSPs (and more specifically, RRSP Loans) were all the rage. Every bank was pushing them and every tax payer wanted to get in on the action. It was so easy to get caught up in the hype that few of us