Tag Archives : Financial education

You may have heard the phrases “Make your money work for you” and “Work smarter, not harder”. If you’re like the average hard-working Canadian, you probably work FOR your money, not the other way around, and bust your butt doing it. So how do we begin changing this around? We need to [...]

Are you in the know? Depending on your age, you know what someone means when they say CCR, NKOTB, BSB, or OMG. But do you know financial acronyms, like RRSP or the more recently-minted TFSA? Like most young people, I knew what the “cool” acronyms meant, but had no idea about financial ones. What I did [...]

“They should teach this in school. My whole life would have been different if I’d known this before.” How many of us have mirrored this sentiment at some time in our financial lives? I know I have. Like Harriet, who was working overtime and seeing a bleak financial future, I paused and thought to [...]