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Shopping around for the best rate can save you thousands on your mortgage. To instantly compare rate types and terms, click on the filters icon beside the down payment percentage in the Ratehub mortgage rate finder below. Input your location, the price of the home yo.... More »
Opinion: Big money puts its trust in Canadian Natural Resources’ Murray Edwards - The Globe and Mail + MORE Oct 7th
Opinion: Big money puts its trust in Canadian Natural Resources’ Murray Edwards The Globe and MailCanadian Natural Resources signs deal to buy Chevron’s Alberta assets for US$6.5-billion The Globe and MailBlockbuster $8.8-billion Chevron deal further consolidates Canadian c.... More »
Financial independence and travel: Can you have both? Apr 24th
In February and early March, as is increasingly our custom, my wife Ruth and I spent five weeks in a sunny clime in order to avoid the tail end of Canada’s winter. On our return from Malta, regular guest blogger Devin Partida contributed a relevant article titled “Can you pursue financial indepe.... More »
What’s my RRSP contribution limit? Dec 12th
Your RRSP contribution limit is the maximum amount you can add to your registered retirement savings plan each year without triggering penalties. It’s based on your unused RRSP deduction room plus 18% of your previous year’s earned income, up to the annual CRA limit.
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Carney government to reveal economic statement on April 28 Apr 15th
Last year, the Liberals changed Canada's financial reporting schedule moving budgets to the fall and smaller fiscal updates to the spring..... More »
Kim Kardashian’s Work Advice for Women Is Out of Touch and Insulting
– canadianbusiness.com
When Kim Kardashian recently told Variety that her advice to women on how to succeed was, “get your fucking ass up and work,” it was an affront to everyday, hard-working people—particularly the ones that make up her massive audience. Despite the Kardashians’ insistence that their ballooning wealth is a result of hard work and a bootstrapping ethos, the family has benefited from generational wealth, celebrity connections and access to the inner circles of investors and VCs.
Yet Kardashian’s words were not targeted towards celebrities like herself, but to the millions of women already working hard to pay their bills or striving towards building their own businesses, albeit without access to the same leg-up Kardashian had. When she said, “nobody wants to work these days,” I think of the disproportionate number of women forced out of the workforce because of the pandemic, women with careers they had spent much of their lives crafting, only to find themselves laid off or having to make the choice between work or childcare…
