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Are Canadian pension buybacks worth it? Jul 20th
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I am currently transferring my pension from a provincial to a federal government pension plan. I’m trying to determine if it is worth purchasing the balance of service and, if so, should I use my RRSP or TFSA funds. Here’s some relevant info:
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WhatsApp contact card feature now available for some lucky users - HT Tech Nov 27th
WhatsApp contact card feature now available for some lucky users HT TechWhatsApp rolls out contact cards sharing on Windows beta Gulf NewsWhatsApp is letting some users share contact cards; here’s everything you need to know about the feature The Financial ExpressW.... More »
More Canadians are rethinking their bank. Should you? Jul 22nd
Clinton Begin was growing tired of frequent visits to bank branches and calling into the trading desk to check on various transactions. “There (were) a lot of things that just took too much of my time. I was always phoning, always going to visit them. It was always a big deal,” he recalled.
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Wednesday will be a big day for Canadian retailers. Here's what to expect + MORE Dec 5th
A big day for Canadian retailer earnings looms ahead with Hudson’s Bay, Dollarama,
Lululemon and Roots all set to report
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PlayStation 5 to be in short supply till second half of 2021 due to chip shortage - gizmochina Feb 24th
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Why Trudeau is wrong on Old Age Security
– macleans.ca
(Justin Tang, CP)Michael Bloomberg welcomed Justin Trudeau to his corporate home in New York this week with a love letter of such intensity that even Stephen Harper would blush. Bloomberg wrote a column for his global financial media behemoth that called Canada’s prime minister “energetic and pragmatic” and compared Trudeau to John F. Kennedy. “The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation’s top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows,” the billionaire and former three-term mayor of New York wrote ahead of Trudeau’s arrival for town-hall event on live television. “But those details—and the apparent demise of the Keystone XL pipeline—don’t begin to tell the story of what lies ahead for the economy of Canada, America’s second-largest trading partner.”
Canada’s main stock market increased about 1% between the time of Trudeau’s visit to the Bloomberg LP headquarters and the early trading hours of March 18. That’s probably because the U…
The TSX was higher on Monday, while the Canadian dollar sank in quiet trading ahead of the federal budget.
Mobster U: Even the Mafia benefits from more school
– theglobeandmail.com
A paper on Italian American organized crime shows that mobsters with more education enjoy significantly higher earnings
Buffalo no longer just shuffling along
– theglobeandmail.com
After decades of ‘woe is us’ in the Western New York city, there’s a new spirit of optimism. Billions of dollars of investment are revitalizing the core by generating jobs, creating coveted office space and bringing people to live downtown
Andy Grove, the former Intel Corp. chief executive whose youth under Nazi occupation and escape from the Iron Curtain inspired an “only the paranoid survive” management philosophy that saved the chip maker from financial ruin in the 1980s, died on Monday.
