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With November incoming and being Financial Literacy Month in Canada, it seems appropriate to devote this edition of the Retired Money column to a new Canadian DIY retirement course created by MoneySense’s “Making sense of the markets” columnist Kyle Prevost.

Entitled 4 Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement, the multimedia course is targeted to virtually the same readers as this column: those thinking seriously of retiring from the workforce in the next decade or two, including semi-retirees or those who have already reached this milestone but who want to fine tune their retirement income strategy. 

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In addition to his MoneySense column, Prevost is also one of the bloggers behind Million Dollar Journey, which has been running since 2006. Not only is he a subject matter expert in Canadian personal finance, but he is also a school teacher, which makes him doubly qualified to create this course, which he describes as a first in Canada…

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