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Real Estate Crowdfunding: A Beginner’s Guide for Young Investors
Real estate has long been considered a solid investment, but the high costs often put it out of reach for young people. Enter real estate crowdfunding – a modern approach to property investment that's worth understanding as you build your financial knowledge.What is Real Estate Crowdfunding?Real...
Tax Season 2025: What Canadians Need to Know About Key Changes, Deadlines, and Financial Planning
As we find ourselves in the midst of the 2025 tax season, Canadians are navigating several significant changes that have taken effect. With the official tax season having kicked off in mid-February, it's crucial to be aware of the updates impacting how individuals and businesses file returns, save...
Investing in a Rental Property: Weighing the Pros and Cons
In today's dynamic real estate market, investing in a rental property can be an enticing opportunity for those looking to diversify their investment portfolio. However, like any significant financial decision, it's crucial to understand both the advantages and potential challenges before taking...
Your Financial Safety Net: Building Emergency Funds for Peace of Mind
In an unpredictable world, financial stability can often feel like a fragile illusion. Emergencies like sudden job loss, medical expenses, or unexpected home repairs can shake even the most carefully planned budgets. This is where an emergency fund becomes your lifeline—your safety net to weather...
Unleashing Potential: Empowering Youth Through Mentorship
Introduction: In a world where boundless freedom and self-discovery should be inherent to every young soul, unfortunately, many face significant barriers. Poverty, traumatic experiences, discrimination, and mental health challenges burden these vulnerable youth, depriving them of their "adolescent...
Elevating Financial Well-Being Through Work
Employment plays a large part in your financial well-being. Working is how most Canadians make money. Ideally, you want a job that pays enough for you to cover your living expenses, save money for the future, and pursue your hobbies and interests as well. Let's dive deeper into how your financial...
New Year Resolutions – How Stay On Track To Your Goals
Finances are a common area that people set New Year's resolutions or goals around. Often times we are met with an overwhelming number of goals and dreams that we want to achieve in the new year. Whether it is to save more, get out of debt, or buy a home are some common financial goals. But a goal...
Financial Wellness – What Is It?
The Wellness Wheel is an educational tool that can be found in various forms and that we introduce frequently in The Dollar Detective curriculum. Some Wellness Wheels have 7 sections, others eight, and some 4, but regardless of how many areas of wellness are depicted, the wellness wheel shows the...
Growing Good Credit – Tips & Tricks
Spring is a time for planting seeds, these can be thoughts, habits, or actual physical seeds. You can think of your finances as a garden, a garden that needs to be weeded, have the right soil, water, light and plant diverse species of vegetation. Let's use the garden analogy to apply it to...
Teaching Your Kids About Money – Practical Tips
Teaching our kids about the importance and management of money at an early age is a key component of avoiding financial problems later down the road. The road to financial success only gets more complicated as we grow older. However, if we can help youth develop the right financial skills,...