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A Tale of Two Housing Price Reports
Filed under: House & Home, Real Estate, Mortgages, Your HomeHousing prices are in a strange place at the moment and it's a little difficult to see where they might go. This summer, one economist's...
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Public Transit and Your Quality of Life
Filed under: Health, House & Home, Real Estate, Travel, Your HomeIt pains me to say this but my car-driving friends were right. I've discovered it for myself and now Statistics Canada is backing up...
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Why Are Houses Such Money Pits? We Ask the Experts!
Filed under: Budgeting & Planning, Family Finances, House & Home, Real Estate, Your Home"Why are houses such money pits?" It was an actual lament from a friend of mine recently. Although I...
View ArticleTo DIY or Not (That is the Question)
Filed under: Budgeting & Planning, House & Home, Real Estate, Your HomeI love DIY (do-it-yourself) shows. Well some of them, anyway. Some are completely useless but there are a few that are...
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Renovation: Things to Know Before You Start
Filed under: Budgeting & Planning, Family Finances, House & Home, Your HomeI'm told (and I can vaguely remember) that once upon a time, not long ago (maybe 15-20 years or so), there weren't...
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Know Your Yard (The Sun & Soil Edition)
Filed under: Budgeting & Planning, House & Home, Going Green, Your HomeAs far as home costs go, the great outdoors don't immediately jump to mind as a concern. There are two ways to landscape a...
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Know Your Yard (Digging Up Surprises)
Filed under: House & Home, Your HomeThere's this rock in my backyard. It sits about halfway down the fence line between our house and the back of our property. It seems to me that it's sitting in a...
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Water Flows Downhill (and Other Facts About Homeownership)
Filed under: House & Home, Insurance, Your HomeDear Homeowner: Water flows downhill and will always find its way to the lowest point in your house. (You might want to store that collection of...
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Can You Afford Your Hobby?
Filed under: Budgeting & Planning, Family Finances, SavingHere's a fact for you: Hobbies are expensive. You might not realize it at first, but the costs add up to a substantial chunk of change....
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Who Gets the Axe?
Filed under: Employment & Careers, Family FinancesWe haven't seen many layoffs yet, but there have been some tough weeks in stock market land, economists have issued their dire-sounding warnings,...
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CFL Bulbs: Poison, Politics and Spin
Filed under: Health, House & Home, Your HomeI wonder if Thomas Edison ever imagined, even in his wildest dreams, that his invention, the light bulb would ever be surrounded by so much spin and...
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Help For Homeowners
Everybody loves to read about what Ricky Martin, Dr. Phil, Mel Gibson, Hulk Hogan, Hilary Duff and Mark Wahlberg are all selling their houses for. Hint: If you're in the market for a piece of real...
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Hiring a Contractor: Tips and Pitfalls
Filed under: Family Finances, House & Home, Your HomeI haven't had the (ahem) privilege yet, but I know from watching enough people and hearing their stories that undertaking renovations can be a...
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eBay Lesson #1: Personal Service
Filed under: Employment & Careers, Entrepreneurship, Auctions, Small BusinesseBay Canada has a neat awards program they run every year to recognize some of their most successful sellers. This year,...
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eBay Lesson #2: Price, Presentation, Persistence
Filed under: Employment & Careers, Entrepreneurship, Auctions, Small BusinessNot many people are brave enough to leave their financial service sector careers to pursue a life in online sales, but...
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eBay Lesson #3: Service, Supply, Price (and a Little Education)
Filed under: Economizer, Entrepreneurship, Shopping, Small BusinessThere are a lot of people out there who call themselves social media experts or gurus. They may or may not know what they're talking...
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Six Selling Tips from eBay's Top Entrepreneurs
eBay sellers, are you ready to get your Christmas on? For online retailers, I suspect this month is it. The Halloween aisle is getting cleared away to make room for the red and green and online...
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Low Income: Who's Most Vulnerable?
Filed under: Family Finances, House & HomeI've heard it said regularly that knowledge is power. ("Knowing is half the battle." What cartoon is that from, anyway?) Hopefully this is true and...
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10 Ways to Save on Groceries
Filed under: Budgeting & Planning, Family Finances, House & Home, ShoppingYou don't need to be an extreme coupon clipper to save on your annual grocery bill, you just need to be a smart shopper...
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Retirement, Delayed. (You're Not Alone)
Filed under: Retirement and RRSPsHere go the boomers, setting that bar again. It's long been noticed that the whole "Freedom 55" notion is a bit of a joke or a dream, depending on who you ask, but the...
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