Banking in Canada can be a murky subject – one that we hope to shed some light on with a series of highly informational articles.
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The best GIC rates in Canada for 2025 + MORE Aug 11th
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Making sense of the markets this week: November 27, 2022 Nov 26th
This week, Cut the Crap Investing founder, Dale Roberts, shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
It’s wonderful to be back writing “Making sense of the markets this week” at MoneySense. I am gladly filling in for a few weeks while Kyle Prevost is away on a drea.... More »
The Best Credit Cards to Use for the 2018 Holiday Season Dec 10th
There are exactly 14 shopping days left until Christmas, and whether you’re ahead of the game or behind on your shopping list, you may already be feeling some shopping lethargy. But don’t despair: depending on your preferred method of payment, you may be able to get rewarded for running around .... More »
Meridian Review: Ontario’s Largest Credit Union vs the Big Banks Nov 25th
I don’t often have an opportunity to write a credit union review. The reason for this is that most credit unions tend to be quite small, and as such, serve a relatively small client base within a very defined (and smallish) geographical area. In short, it doesn’t work all that well for a persona.... More »
Is Wealthsimple a bank? Not exactly, but it’s launching new “banking” services Jun 12th
Canadians aren’t short of credit card options, that’s for sure. At an average of two to three credit cards per person, we have more credit cards than debit cards in our wallets. But there’s still room for one more, suggests Wealthsimple with its recently launched bank-like offerings, including.... More »
Bend an ear: Audiology programs train specialists to give deaf Canadians a voice in courts, banks, hospitals and interviews (Photograph by Nick Iwanyshyn)Pardon me?
Some say hearing is the sense that connects us most of all. Being blind may separate us from things, but being deaf separates us from people, according to author Helen Keller, who was both.
Yet hearing loss is growing as the Baby Boom ages and the magic little hair cells of their inner ears get too stiff to pick up higher pitches. That silence feeds isolation and can even speed up dementia. By age 65, one in three Canadians has lost some hearing. By 75, it’s almost half. Some three million Canadians already are hard of hearing and 300,000 are fully deaf, and these numbers will only climb as the ranks of seniors explode over the next 20 years.
If hearing loss poses a national health challenge, it’s also a chance for a new generation to step up and help, especially as provinces beef up the rights of the disabled to get the support they need from the classroom to the board room…
