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Best robo-advisors in Canada for 2025 Feb 14th
Investing is a bit like renovating your home. The cheapest way is to do it yourself, with a Canadian online broker. Of course, the result will depend on your know-how and skills, and it will consume a lot of your time. Conversely, you can outsource the job to a master contractor and not lift a finge.... More »
Carney Held $6.8 Million of Brookfield Options Before Quitting for Political Run - Bloomberg + MORE Mar 18th
Carney Held $6.8 Million of Brookfield Options Before Quitting for Political Run BloombergCarney pushes back when questioned about financial assets CBC.ca'Look inside yourself': Carney gets snippy at reporter when pressed on conflicts of interest National PostConserv.... More »
The crypto markets’ response to the U.S. election results + MORE Nov 6th
The price of bitcoin hit a new high Wednesday as investors bet that former President Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election will be a boon for cryptocurrencies.
How did bitcoin investors respond to the presidential election?
Bitcoin jumped nearly 8% in early trading, cl.... More »
Managing debt to build wealth + MORE Aug 21st
It’s an eyebrow-raising trend: non-mortgage delinquencies have reached levels not seen since 2009, according to a report by Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies. Specifically, 1.4 million people in Canada have recently missed a credit payment.
But it’s no.... More »
The after-effect of market lows: a drop in fixed mortgage rates Aug 7th
When markets drop like they did on Monday, you may not immediately think of the impact on mortgage rates. We’ve been relying on the Bank of Canada to nudge rates lower, namely for variable mortgages. But fixed mortgages got a news headline-worthy update today, thanks to bonds, which are reacting t.... More »
Anne T. Donahue: It’s Time to Re-Claim Laziness
– canadianbusiness.com
Like many Millennial women, I’ve spent most of my adult life equating my self worth with my productivity. And while I’ve broken a few old habits in my career as a freelance writer—like tracking a list of all the pieces I’ve ever written, or working along to The Social Network soundtrack—I still struggle with the guilt of not being perpetually busy. This is partly because I need to be: I pay to go to university, I pay bills and I’ve got no generational wealth to fall back on. So when I’m not actively trying to make money or get ahead on assignments, I feel like I’m wasting my time. And time is money, after all (even if I inevitably end up staring at a blank Google Doc, writing and re-writing the same sentence).
Yet while that guilt pushes me to respond to (most) overdue emails, it’s also sucked the joy out of being alive. None of us are meant to be on 24/7, yet rhetoric around professional boundaries (and even resting) translates into laziness. A pejorative term, despite it being a vital means of self-preservation…
