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Financial Advice and Support Through the Covid-19 Outbreak

Tracking every case of COVID-19 in Canada

CTV News has an interactive map and provincial statistics about the Coronavirus.
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There are signs of hope, but economic recovery will be slow

In the normal course of a big economic downturn, economists would be picking through the detritus right about now in search of what they call “green shoots” - signs of a natural recovery that will sprout and bring jobs and profits, investment and productivity.
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Why it’s time to get serious about financial wellness

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how a crisis of this magnitude can crack open processes, systems, and beliefs and expose their flaws. Canadians’ financial health is no exception. For years, advice on how Canadians can ensure their security by saving for a rainy day and avoiding too much debt has been largely brushed off.Read the Article....

Matt Gurney: Canada makes identity theft way too easy

A well-designed system can prevent a lot of problems. Sadly, the opposite is also true. And a key part of our cellphone system, Canada-wide, is badly designed.Read the Article....

Why the people rushing to get life insurance now are doing a smart thing

The pandemic has revealed a big but fixable hole in our financial planning for emergencies.
It’s life insurance. All of a sudden, this unpleasant, often-ignored topic has got our attention.Read the Article....

6 Steps To Avoid “Quarantine 15”

Middle-age creep isn’t the jerk in a trench coat leaning over your shoulder with a camera phone. It’s the added spare tire, usually caused by stress, that refuses to budge no matter how much we diet or exercise. Stress has a powerful effect on appetite. But does eating reduce stress? Fat chance. What you eat during self-quarantine and sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic can help you cope better or make your stress worse. Some are calling the 15-pound Corona weight gain during self-isolation, “quarantine 15.”Read the Article....

5 Lessons That Will Stay With Me After the Quarantine

Hard lessons in personal finance have rained down on us since the pandemic began.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people express their excitement about things returning “back to normal.” But I’ll be honest with you - that’s the last thing I want. I want our lives to be even better than they were before. I want all of us to collectively move forward, not backward. I want us to take all the lessons we learned when life slowed to a grinding halt, and use them with intention to make our future that much brighter.
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Pandemic personal finance update: A 10 point checklist of things you should have done by now to protect or improve your money situation

Hard lessons in personal finance have rained down on us since the pandemic began.
The Pandemic Personal Finance Update has tried to keep track of them.
This 10th installment of the update will be the last. Let’s look at 10 steps you should have taken already to guard your financial well-being, but that can still be done now with great effect.
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What are the best wines for pairing with barbecue and other grilled food?

Though there may be fewer people gathered around the barbecue, COVID-19 restrictions won’t interrupt the return of prime grilling season. Whether you’re flipping burgers, searing salmon or smoking ribs, there’s a style of wine that can add more flavour to the experience.
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The Questions You Wish You Had Asked Your Parents

As significant as parents are in life, their adult children often don’t know what shaped them and what they were like before they became mom and dad. They may be curious about their parents’ background and choices, but don’t think to ask questions or know how to begin. They are busy with raising their families and jobs or live hundreds of miles away. Other topics—children, school, work—can seem more pressing.Read the Article....

How much money are we really saving with physical distancing?

What the world looks like when the crisis ends is truly anyone’s guess, but I will say with 100-per-cent clarity that it is going to look a lot different than it did before. Months of isolation and distancing and fear of a return of the pandemic are going to fundamentally alter lifestyles and will have a profound influence not just on the way we live but how we conduct ourselves in our business and commercial lives.
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A Message From A. Jones Wealth and Estate Planning

Reasons to Diversify

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Here's what it will take to reopen Canada's economy

In mid-April - for the first time - encouraging signs began to emerge that Canada may be flattening the curve of coronavirus infections. But how quickly will things return to normal? It's a high stakes decision that pits lives against dollars.Read the Article....

The world will look much different once the pandemic ends. These investments will thrive in it

Prevent Your Credit Score From Diving During COVID-19

People deferring their mortgage payments are making an unpleasant discovery: it can wreck your credit rating.
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Market Volatility Does Not Mean The Sky Is Falling

Yes, the Covid19 crisis is a new crisis – but Canadians, the Canadian economy and Canadian portfolios have experienced and survived world wars, depressions, and pandemics before. There is little reason to believe that this time will be any different. Investors would do well to keep that in mind.
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What Investors Should Do As We Enter A Bear Market

The value of advice... Portfolio manager assesses the downturn and tells WP the sector he thinks will lead us out of this crisis.
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Panic is Not an Investment Strategy

The value of advice... If markets are good at one thing, it's reminding investors that stock prices don't simply go up, uninterrupted, forever. Markets decline. It's an unavoidable part of investing. What matters is how you respond.Read the Article....