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Guy Lafleur, who passed away in 2022, was my childhood hero. Watching the Flower fly down the wing for the Montreal Canadiens — that mane of blond hair, the goals that made you leap off the couch — was as close to magic as a kid in Alberta could get. Rest easy, No. 10. He […]
Home prices continue to fall or remain flat in major centres across the country , a potential predicament for those counting on their homes as part of their retirement plans . The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board reported this week that in Canada’s largest city the average selling price was $1,051,969 in April, down 4.9
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Q. I’m 35 years old and my mom is 58. I convinced her to make an appointment with a financial adviser to go over retirement options and withdrawal strategies, as she wants to retire this year. I’m going with her. My parents are married and both are planning to take their Canada Pension Plan (CPP)
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At 84, Louise* is looking to simplify her investment portfolio , minimize tax, and make sure she maintains her current lifestyle. This includes continuing to travel five to six times a year, albeit more locally than her past global adventures, and age in place in her home in Vancouver, bringing in any additional help she
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I was standing in the Cathédrale Saint-Vincent in St. Malo, France, with my 82-year-old French mother and sister on the day the federal government’s spring economic update was released. The plaque over the tomb of Jacques Cartier there, in translation, reads: “Here rests Jacques Cartier, native of Saint-Malo and the first discoverer of Canada, who
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Q. My mom is 64 years old and attended a seminar about annuities for her retirement. She was about to transfer her $300,000 in retirement savings to the sales people but I stopped her from doing that after getting a better understanding of the financial product. The bottom line is that the actions of these
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A friend reached out to me this week in a panic. She was about to file her 2025 tax return and owed $140,000 in tax, but that wasn’t the source of her concern. It turns out she had sold an income property in 2025, realized a significant capital gain and the tax on that gain
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Despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures, millennial parents are finding ways to set money aside for their children’s future, according to a new survey from education savings company Embark Student Corp. Seventy-three per cent of the survey’s respondents — 90 per cent of whom are millennials — said they have opened a registered education savings plan (RESP)
Canadians have billions of dollars tucked away in their First Home Savings Accounts , a savings stockpile that has only been growing as stock markets have powered higher in recent years. The real estate industry would love to see first-time home buyers drain those accounts, but a major question for young Canadians today is whether
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As a young boy, I would watch my mom diligently read the newspapers and the flyers that came with them. She would cut out coupons and tuck them away for the next trip to the store. Today, newspaper coupons have been replaced by a flood of digital ones: app notifications, email blasts, loyalty offers and
Whether you use an app or a budget worksheet to get a handle on your spending, you’ll want to know where your money is going — and then make a plan for where you want it to go. The 50/30/20 budget is a good tool to do just that. Use our calculator to estimate how…
After decades of work, retirement is supposed to feel like freedom, and for many Canadians it did, until costs for groceries and essentials soared. What was once a comfortable retirement income in 2021 now does not go as far. Many retirees are therefore reconsidering their financial plans, not due to poor decisions but because the
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It is that time of year when taxpayers cross their fingers and hope for a tax refund. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) data for the 2026 tax-filing season through April 20 show about 62 per cent of tax returns filed resulted in a refund. The average refund was about $2,248. Taxpayers with a balance owed an
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Planning a cost-effective vacation this summer increasingly feels like betting on the commodities market, as oil prices rise and fall based on global geopolitical winds. Statistics Canada reported this week that airfares rose in March for the first time in two years, as the Iran war roiled oil prices. John Grant, chief analyst at OAG
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Investing in publicly traded real estate is going to get even harder now that one of Canada’s largest shopping mall operators is going private. A $9.4 billion deal, including debt, will see Toronto-based First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust, a retail landlord with about 136 shopping centres in urban areas, be sold to privately held
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Canadian consumers have not reduced their spending in the face of a struggling economy, but they are are being more cautious and selective with their money, according to new transaction data from Moneris Solutions. The payment processing company, which handles roughly one in three transactions in Canada, said total domestic spending was essentially flat year
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The latest stats from Canada Revenue Agency ’s tax filing season tracker show that as of April 12, 16.1 million taxpayers have filed, meaning about half of us have yet to file our 2025 tax return — including me. But I’m not panicking, as I always wait until the last minute to make sure I
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