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How to fill out a personal tax return for 2023 Dec 13th
Whether it’s your first time or if you’re a newcomer to Canada, you’ve come to the right place. This step-by-step guide will help you navigate through filling out your tax return.
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Making sense of the markets this week: December 25, 2022 Dec 23rd
This week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
The round-up of returns for the year
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Does it make sense to retire when we’re still in a pandemic?
– moneysense.ca
While the war in Ukraine has largely displaced COVID-19 as front-page news, that doesn’t mean the pandemic is done with us quite yet. In fact, COVID again made the front page of the National Post in early July, when it reported that half the Canadian population (more than 17 million) were infected with Omicron in the five months starting in December 2021; and again on July 23, declaring, “COVID refuses to give us a break”.
Governments have warned that COVID continues to pose a threat, especially for those over 60—an age when many Canadians at least start contemplating retirement. As a result, some older workers who commute to corporate jobs have been reassessing their life plans, pushing employers for more flexibility, if not an early retirement package.
Lockdowns and retirement: Not dissimilar
“COVID-19 has given many people a glimpse into what life may look and feel like as a retiree,” says Aaron Hector, a financial planner with Calgary-based Doherty Bryant Financial Strategists…