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In an effort to crack down on speculators and to discourage people from taking on too much debt, Ottawa is tightening mortgage rules again. These new rules

When Sophia first heard the term Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), the first thing that came to her mind was a low- or no-interest account at a bank.

On June 29, 2009, Bernard Lawrence ‘Bernie’ Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for perpetrating what has been called ‘the largest investment fraud in Wall

On May 25, 2009 Finance Canada announced some proposed changes to how Canada Pension Plan will work.   If approved, the changes will take effect over a

Ralph and Louise have seen the TV commercials featuring Gordon Pape, the financial author, as the spokesman for Canadian Home Income Plan Corp. (CHIP) reverse mortgages. They

The newspaper headlines read: ‘Roller coaster stock markets have investors feeling queasy’ (The Globe and Mail; ‘The stock market crash: History repeating itself?’ (The Calgary Herald); ‘Uncertainty