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Do you need long-term care insurance? Aug 12th
No offence to any of us but, as a country, we’re getting old. The average age of a Canadian in 2024 was 41.6 years, according to Statistics Canada, and by 2030, one in four Canadians will be 65 or older.
That means there’s a growing demand for health services and long-term car.... More »
Sanders Proposes Medicare for None + MORE Jan 18th
His bill would abolish all forms of private insurance and almost all existing public programs..... More »
Ottawa won’t immediately offer forestry aid package after U.S. duties Apr 24th
A machine places freshly cut trees into piles before transport to the West Fraser Timber Co. sawmill in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, July 11, 2013. (Ben Nelms/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
MONTREAL – Ottawa has talked with provinces about helping Canada’s forestry sector, bu.... More »
Cash Values & Life Insurance Mar 3rd
In a world of way too much tax there still a tax strategy that Canadians should take advantage of.
This strategy is to decrease your tax burden, and the tactic is purchasing a life insurance policy that allows for tax-deferred growth.
The Concept
Many insurance companies have life insurance contrac.... More »
These are the most expensive postal codes for auto insurance in the city. Here’s how you can save if you live in one + MORE Mar 16th
The City of Toronto came in as the seventh most expensive city in the province for auto insurance, with the most expensive postal codes — M3N and M9M — in Humber River-Black Creek..... More »
MPs to debate genetic testing bill
– macleans.ca
Liberal MP Rob Oliphant takes part in an interview on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickOTTAWA – After a flurry of intense lobbying from insurance companies, health charities, a handful of provinces and the justice minister herself, the fate of a controversial genetic testing bill is now in the hands of Parliament.
Liberal MP Rob Oliphant has been shepherding the proposed Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, also known as Bill S-201, through the House of Commons, where it is back up for debate and could come to a final vote Wednesday.
“I have been absolutely assured that it is a free vote,” Oliphant said Monday.
Preceding that vote has been months of lobbying both for and against the bill, an effort that picked up steam as the reality began to dawn that a private member’s bill — something that rarely becomes law — had enough support to actually pass.
The legislation would, among other things, make it illegal to require someone to undergo or disclose the results of genetic testing as a condition of signing or continuing an insurance policy or any other good, service, contract or agreement…
