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Canadian Financial Rants
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My personal opinions on finances with a distinctly Canadian Flavor
- Author: Big Cajun Man
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- Tags: Retirement personal finance debt reduction credit card loans 401k rrsp
Recent Posts
Random Thoughts: Advent Begins
For those of you saying, “Christmas starts too early every year“, I agree, the real start to the season (if you want to call it Christmas) should be Advent, and this past Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent, so Happy Advent! For those ...
New Financial Programs Are Never Easy
My wife and I spent about an hour working with our TD/Waterhouse rep attempting to set up an RDSP. Luckily the rep had already pre-read as much information was available from TD (i.e. not very much), and so we spent 45 minutes filling in paper forms...
Wow, I am Old
Stats Canada put out it’s yearly population estimates with the data showing sex and age correlations, and all I can say is I am starting to feel a lot older. The Median age of a Canadian as of July 1,2009 was 39.5 years (up about 0.2 years fro...
Taboo Subjects With Kids
Uncomfortable Subjects with Kids Larry MacDonald asked me a few questions for an article he is working on, and it caused me to think a bit more about a subject that it is important as parents to talk to our kids about. This subject is taboo in most ...
Sometimes the sure thing doesn’t pay out
After switching off the Grey Cup (I stopped watching after the Alouettes vaunted defense gave up their 27th point), it dawned on me that no matter how it stacks up, in football, as in life, there is just no sure things. Every pundit that talks about...
Video: Christmas is Coming
The NFB again dips into my childhood with this black and white documentary/short of Christmas Time in Montreal (at least the days leading up to Christmas). Christmas is coming, and this makes it feel that much closer. The Church at the beginning loo...
