Best Business Opportunities of 2010

Business opportunities of 2010 cause consumers to be more cautious about what they buy and less optimistic about the economy in general, having said that small businesses selling necessities will do well; those selling what consumers consider to be “frills” will not, unless they can tap into sufficiently well-heeled niches. Read More »

What are the benefits of a tax free account (TFSA)?

The Tax-Free Savings Account is just like an RRSP in one respect and gains compound tax-free while they’re in the plan.

It’s different in two ways: First, there is no tax deduction for putting money into a TFSA, as there is in an RRSP. “With a TFSA, the money invested is after-tax money,” says the advisory. “With an RRSP it’s pre-tax money that you are investing.” Read More »

Guide list for first time home buyers

Buying your first home is a very intimidating and stressful process. Over the last sixteen years and working with thousands of first time home buyers, here are my recommendations to anyone thinking about jumping into the condominium market for the first time. Read More »

10 things they won’t tell you about retirement

If you’re like many middle-aged Canadians,you used to think that you would retire at 55. Now you’re hoping for 65. Once you used to smile fondly at the retirement ads that showed laughing grey-haired couples golfing in tropical paradises. Now you have an overwhelming desire to jump out of the sand trap and smack those smug retirees with a nine iron. Read More »

Canadian Celeb Power List

Jim Carrey remains the most powerful Canadian actor, according to Canadian Business magazine’s fourth annual Celebrity Power List, our ranking of the most powerful actors in Hollywood. This is thanks in part to the success of the actor’s most recent film, the animated Horton Hears a Who! Three people fell off the list in 2008: Anna Paquin, Evangeline Lilly and Matthew Perry. They were replaced by two familiar faces, Hayden Christensen and Brendan Fraser, who both appeared on the 2006 list, and a new one: Ellen Page, who made her mark as a pregnant teen quick with the witty one-liners in Juno. Read More »

Rates for Canadian Saving Accounts

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Credit Card Rates in Canada

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Wall Street Swings Day After Meltdown

(CBS/ AP) Wall Street’s numbers swung back and forth Thursday despite a boost from the Federal Reserve which, along with central banks in Europe, Canada and Asia, pumped as much as $180 billion into money markets to combat shock waves from the worst financial upheaval since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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City gears up for bike rental plan

Toronto is getting the wheels in motion to roll out a high-tech rent-a-bike program next year, not unlike a wildly successful one in Paris, says the head of the city’s cycling committee. Read More »