I was just reading the news today on how in the beginning of next year there is apparently a plan in place to cut our GST tax rate from 6% to 5%. For those who don’t know, we pay two types of sales tax here. Kind of surprising I thought considering we just had it […]
Doesn’t seem like this rising Canadian dollar bit is ever slowing down news wise as today there was a lot of buzz of it reaching to about 1.05 US. This made me curious in seeing what the trend has been like overall. I quickly went to Yahoo Finance and saw this quick chart which shows […]
I was just reading about the news about the social networking site Facebook and how Microsoft has purchased a 1.6 percent stake in the company for about $240 million. Apparently Facebook is valued at about $15 billion. I’m just reading the reactions from some people and a lot of casual observers think it is a […]
I was having a conversation with a person about his views when it comes to doing the right things in life which sometimes require that you take a hit financially. For example, if someone has just scammed you out of thousands of dollars and it looks like it could possibly cost you more at the […]
One of my friends was telling me today on how he has met so many people that have tried to take advantage of him as a result of his financial success that he has kind of developed ways to quickly sort people who are genuine. His example was that there was a person he met […]
I was reading the news lately on how retailers here are beginning to re-adjust prices for the items to reflect a price that is closer to ones found in US stores as a result of the Canadian dollar. Feels like one of those “What is taking so long?†type of situations. From what I see, […]