Walking down the street today, help wanted signs seem to be everywhere. Of course, if you own your own business, or work in a small business, you know what it’s like to have that sign hang in your window for one, two, even three months or more. While many blame the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) for the shortage, a September 2021 study by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) suggests otherwise.

While creating your own business from scratch seems to have caught our collective interest, it’s not the only way to be your own boss. Depending on your skill set, time of life, and financial situation, buying a business may be a better option for you. Or, the opposite might be true.

For high income earners, RRSPs can feel a bit like, well, squeezing into your favourite jeans from twenty years ago. They may still fit, but they’re definitely not comfortable anymore. The good news is there's a more comfortable way.

Relationships are complicated at the best of times, so, if a couple decides to split up, untangling the life they’ve built together often gets messy, and fast. One of the few things that can make a divorce or separation a little bit easier is a marriage contract.

As people have spent more time remotely working from home, their desires regarding their workplace have shifted. While the pandemic hasn’t changed worker’s expectations of wages, their expectations for work and benefits are quickly diverging from tradition.

More money does not equal financial freedom. In fact, despite our relative affluence, Canadians are going deeper in debt each year. The real key to a less stressful financial situation isn’t more money, it’s matching income and expenditures, commonly known as a budget.