Reading Time: 3 minutes Calls to increase the duty exemption limit for online shopping would be a disaster
Category: Your Money
Walmart, Costco muscling into Canada’s food retail marketplace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Consumers are benefiting and traditional retailers scrambling as Walmart and Costco drive down prices and increase their market share
What middle class tax cut?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trudeau government fails to deliver on its middle class tax cut promise
Expanded CPP will lead to reduction in private savings
Reading Time: 3 minutes And that means less money for a home down payment, education upgrading, to cover emergencies and for your beneficiaries
Finance ministers found solution to non-existent CPP problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite agreement among finance ministers, CPP expansion is unnecessary
June 7 was Tax Freedom Day in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes But there was little reason to celebrate
Understanding CPP’s decline in rates of return for retirees
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s critical to consider the rather meagre rates of return offered to most current and future workers in any debate about CPP reform
Which NDP will introduce the “Act to End Predatory Lending”?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Notley government can make an ideological point, or it can leverage the power of Albertans to build a better and fairer small-dollar loan market
There are several reasons to oppose CPP expansion
Reading Time: 4 minutes Current system already provides Canadians with an adequate standard of living upon retirement
Higher food prices in Canada not a bad thing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Higher food prices lead to better quality and service and more selection than ever before