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Debt settlement spiders weave webs of grief.

February 7, 2012

A new type of creature has infested Ontario. I believe its scientific name in Latin is something like Horribili Reatu Sedes Aranea, which translates to horrible debt settlement spider. It’s a creepy animal, often getting inside TV sets or crawling across the face of things like outdoor posters where it weaves endless webs through mind-numbing [...]

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Goodbye surprise cell phone bills!

May 5, 2011

It’s happened to the best of us; you open your cell phone bill only to be mortified by the never ending numbers and confusing charges that you try to read. How could this happen? When did this happen? And how am I going to pay this? Those surprise phone bills can really mess with your [...]

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Do you live in fear of cell phone jingles?

April 5, 2011

There is nothing more debilitating to the spirit than fear. Yet it is something that many thousands of Canadians face every day as they ponder the financial debts they owe and feel they cannot pay. Collection agencies can make matters worse through what behavioral scientists call “fear installation management.” It’s the psychological games collectors play [...]

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Keyboard gangsters this one’s for you.

February 14, 2011

I recently read a review in a Toronto newspaper lambasting the hot food counter of a small, family run supermarket because the writer’s $4.99 lunch was tasteless and too greasy. I was so moved to outrage by the writer’s arrogance that I actually yelled out “Are you freaking kidding me?! Ever heard of salt and [...]

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Financial literacy across Canada – the dream unfolds.

February 11, 2011

Dare to dream, someone once said. And we have. Just as it was Credit Canada’s vision four years ago to create a national event around financial literacy in the form of the now celebrated Credit Education Week, so too was it our hope back then that a national strategy surrounding the issue would be established [...]

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Translation class: Your credit report.

November 26, 2010

There’s something about a credit report that makes people take leave of their senses much like getting a letter in a brown envelope that’s clearly not a cheque marked Government of Canada.  I know this because one of the biggest meltdowns I’ve ever had involved both at once.  During the 2004 tax year I received a [...]

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Visit moneyville.ca and go to town with smart advice.

October 27, 2010

This may seem a little unusual, but this week I’m here to promote what technically might be called my competition. I want to tell you about a very special online space dedicated to personal money management – moneyville.ca. I don’t really view the site as a competitor, more as a friend really, since any good [...]

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