How to deal with the rising costs of auto insurance due to car theft Apr 16th
Don’t forget savings for children’s education in RRSP season + MORE Feb 22nd
Want to Supersize Your Business? Buy Another Aug 3rd
TSX hits another high as pot stocks fall after U.S. Attorney General report + MORE Jan 4th
Tech and mining companies top this year’s TSX Venture 50 list + MORE Feb 20th
Toshiba to sell part of chip business, first step in offsetting huge charge
– theglobeandmail.com
Weekend Reading – Costco returns, indexing, CMHC premiums, CBC media mention and #money stuff
– myownadvisor.ca
Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition – where you can find some of my favourite personal finance and investing articles from the week that was.
Here were my articles from this week:
I shared my 2017 predictions.
Thanks to some reader inspiration I wrote about my journey and considerations for self-directed investing here.
The folks at LSM Insurance helped me out with this post – the finer points about no medical life insurance – and why it may or may not be right for you.
Thanks for your ongoing support of this site, your reading and sharing. See you here next week!
Thanks to Jessica Brooks and CBC Life for including yours truly in this article – top money bloggers’ tips for taking control of your finances in 2017.
Related to the CBC post – here is my best budgeting rule of thumb.
My friend Frugal Trader has some impressive financial goals for 2017.
Sure Dividend believes U.S. investors should not overlook Canadian dividend payers…
Ali Esmail’s PopRx is reinventing the pharmacy for the mobile-first era
– canadianbusiness.com
Medical doctor Ali Esmail founded Toronto-based PopRx in early 2015, along with Vejey Gandier, whom he had previously partnered with on mobile collaboration platform Medlinx. The duo pitched PopRx on the CBC web series Next Gen Den that same year, earning a $100,000 investment from OMX founder Nicole Verkindt and Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein. He explains how his company is simplifying the process of managing prescriptions on your phone:
“Two years into my residency in head and neck surgery, I thought, What’s going to change medicine the most in the coming years is not what I’m learning in medical textbooks, but rather the impact technology is going to have on the way we interact with patients.
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“Our main goal at PopRx is to improve the interaction between pharmacist and patient…
