While there are still many, many companies who prefer to keep the landline telephones that they use as the primary means of communications between themselves and their clients most of those companies are entities that have been in business for more than 10 years. The reason that they keep the landlines is mainly because of…
The Province of Ontario is finally getting the picture that ride sharing is here to stay. And the insurance companies, surely smelling potential profit have convinced the province that it needs to modernize the insurance industry in order to protect all those souls in danger of losing everything by rising in an Uber instead of…
If you talk to boomers these days you will inevitably find at least a few in your group or even more than a few whose adult grown children are living with them. This fact is undeniable. The reasons why are the subject of many discussions at both the Provincial and Federal level. The financial crisis…
When most Baby Boomers read the news that Trudeau plans to hike spending across the board in an effort to stimulate the economy they are excited and satisfied with the performance by the fledgling P.M. He is after all trying to make sure that we have continued growth in the next few years and that…
Since the yes vote by the U.K to leave the European Union, there has been little talk of the problems faced by Greece and other countries that seemed to dominate the financial news cycles over the past couple of years. Instead the troubles seem to be coming from Italy’s banks that are facing a crisis…
Most of today have a least one and usually several rewards cards that we keep in our ever expanding wallet or purse. Grocery store cards, the many gas station cards, and of course, the granddaddy of them all, the Air Miles card. For the most part we keep accumulating the points and miles with no…
When you think about the absolute basics of accounting have largely remained unchanged in the last 100 years no less the last 10. Identifying incoming money or revenue and calculating the outgoing expenses of a single individual or a large multinational the basic tasks remain the same. That is about the only thing that has…
When on vacation you have enough to worry about without having to constantly stress about whether or not your finances are safe as well. There are many ways to protect yourself when travelling in order to prevent yourself from losing control of your money or even your identity. One very important factor to remember…
In this day and age of 24/7 connectivity and social media mania most people are cognizant of the fact that there are people around the world who spend every waking moment trying to figure out ways of parting you with your hard earned money in any way possible. One way of doing this is…
For most individuals the only relationship they have to their credit score is when they try to obtain something on credit and are forced to hear what the number is from the retailer deciding whether or not they are a viable risk for the extension of that credit. Most people realize that by paying your…
