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Tag: Personal Finance
Why Canadians are suffering a bankruptcy spike
Reading Time: 4 minutes Interest rate hikes, housing costs, rising taxes and stagnating wages are all crucial. We need to address these problems
CPP takes bigger bite from Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes But much of the justification for expanding the pension plan is debatable or downright wrong
The gig economy poses hurdles but offers big potential
Reading Time: 4 minutes An advantage of working on your own is that there’s no ceiling on how much money you can make
Was the 2008 financial crisis exacerbated by official misjudgment?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Countries as disparate as Ireland, Iceland and Greece showed that misplaced financial exuberance has many pedigrees
Buy Canadian economics carry a steep cost
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Canadians may embrace buying Canadian food products in retaliation for the trade dispute with the U.S., it won’t come cheap
Deficit spending is no free lunch; it’s a bill to future taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government should stop kicking the can down the road and reduce federal spending now to avoid future tax increases
‘Bad things happen to good people’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Final installment in five-part series: As people dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free. The series features the stories of four people whose lives were ruled by debt because of divorce, illness, loss of a loved one or fraud. Growing bills were ruining their lives until they decided to take control of their financial future.
Fraudster ruined woman’s plans for early retirement
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fourth in a five-part series: As people dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free
Injury and job losses push Calgarians to live off credit cards
Reading Time: 5 minutes Third of a five-part series: As people dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free.