If you have children, you already know they play. Everywhere. All the time. So here are some cool stuff for kids and great ideas for their bedrooms, playrooms, backyards, and anywhere else they are able to have fun, so you can possibly (not likely) contain them to a specific area in your house. The goal […]
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The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent. Global economic growth is strengthening and becoming more broadly-based than the Bank had expected in its January Monetary Policy […]
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If you’ve ever tried and failed at budgeting, or if you’ve never tried at all because it sounds so hard and boring, this post is for you. Those of you with a budgeting system that works and that you possibly even love and want to have babies with are excused for the day. Those of […]
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What First Home Owners in Canada Need to know! The reason I have a blog and share information is to educate my clients, prospective clients and first home owners about mortgages. Obviously there is a lot to know about mortgages, financing, and buying property, and there are a lot of great ways for me to […]
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As you may well be aware, the government has recently made changes to the way mortgages are qualified through the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). In short, these changes have made it more expensive for some of the broker channel lenders to fund mortgages, the increased cost of doing business is then passed on to consumers […]
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Often times it’s the simple math that will betray you when thinking of selling a property. In your head you do quick calculations, you take what you think your property will sell for and then subtract what you owe on your mortgage, and the rest is your profit! Well… not so fast, there are several costs […]
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Nice Kitchens Make a Huge Difference! According to people who know stuff, there are two things that are absolutely true about kitchens. Firstly, the kitchen is the heart of the home and secondly, the kitchen is where you do most of the cooking in your house. And as eating is important to keeping you alive… making […]
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By Sandi Martin of Spring Personal Finance. The point: it doesn’t matter what method you use to pay off debt, or if you use any method at all. What matters is that you stop creating new debt. It’s out there: the mathematically precise, strictly rational formula for paying off your three credit cards, small car […]
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The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent. CPI inflation rose to 2.1 per cent in January, reflecting higher energy prices due in part to carbon pricing […]
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This article was originally published on LinkedIn by Chris Bailey on Oct 28th 2015. Chris is a self-proclaimed Jedi Master at A Life of Productivity where he blogs about being productive. For Some Strange Reason, Our Brain is Wired to Think in Threes. As kids, we grow up immersed in stories that involve threes: Goldilocks and […]
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