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Q: I never thought of the TFSA as an investment, because I use my RRSP to invest. I use my TFSA as a savings account but does that mean the money isn’t protected? Could I lose all that money?
—Maria Vasilescu, Kitchener, Ont.
A: If you hold cash or GICs in your Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA),.... More »
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Marijuana plants grow in a climate controlled growing room at Tweed Inc., now Canopy Growth, in Smith Falls, Ontario in 2015. (James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Allan Gregory is a professor of economics at Queen’s University.
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Index surges 80 per cent
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The best store credit cards in Canada 2022 + MORE Apr 22nd
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Making sense of the markets this week: November 23 Nov 20th
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
It’s déjà vu vaccine all over again as we make sense of the markets
This week began, like last week, with some very positive (and welcome) news on the vaccine front. As yo.... More »
The federal government is hoping that new rules that went into effect this year will help fight electronic tax evasion in restaurants and retail stores that have been using so-called zapper software to under-report their earnings.
Real-estate agents eagerly awaiting outcome of Quebec election
– canadianbusiness.com
MONTREAL – The Quebec election has real-estate agents on both sides of the Quebec-Ontario border agreeing on one thing: the market is on hold as homebuyers await the outcome.
Realtors say a Parti Quebecois majority on April 7 likely wouldn’t result in the kind of mass exodus that followed the party’s first election victory in 1976.
Thousands of Quebecers, mainly anglophones, fled the province after the Rene-Levesque-led PQ stunned the rest of Canada by surging to a majority win.
Libby Broady, a Montreal real-estate broker, says the market is taking a wait-and-see attitude this time around.
“Everything seems to be on hold from the buyers’ standpoint,” the 69-year-old said in an interview. “The buyers are not jumping in and making offers.”
Broady, a real-estate agent in Beaconsfield, Que., for 26 years, said the local market improved this past January and February after a slow 2013.
That momentum, according to Broady, stalled when the PQ called the election in the first week of March…
Realtors say a Parti Quebecois majority on April 7 likely wouldn’t result in the kind of mass exodus that followed the party’s first election victory in 1976.
Thousands of Quebecers, mainly anglophones, fled the province after the Rene-Levesque-led PQ stunned the rest of Canada by surging to a majority win.
Libby Broady, a Montreal real-estate broker, says the market is taking a wait-and-see attitude this time around.
“Everything seems to be on hold from the buyers’ standpoint,” the 69-year-old said in an interview. “The buyers are not jumping in and making offers.”
Broady, a real-estate agent in Beaconsfield, Que., for 26 years, said the local market improved this past January and February after a slow 2013.
That momentum, according to Broady, stalled when the PQ called the election in the first week of March…
90 days – 1.60%
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This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2013-11-28. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
60 days – 1.55%
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This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2013-11-28. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
5.5 year – 2.80%
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This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 2014-03-11. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
