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Forget the beer goggles, beware of the beer tab.

May 31, 2011

President Obama drinks a pint of Guinness, thinks it’s 2008. Emma Rogers drinks a shot of Tequila, thinks it’s 1999. Recently I found myself in the club district of Toronto for a stagette party.  It was my first time back after a long hiatus, due mainly to losing the skirt length battle with the twenty something crowd. There [...]

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Life doesn’t have to be a gamble.

March 31, 2011

For a number of people in Canada, life is literally a gamble. In fact, it can be vicious circle of compulsive gambling at casinos or through other venues, and it often results in serious debt. Problem gambling is no small matter within society. For example, studies over the last decade by the Ontario Problem Gambling [...]

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What’s your money type?

March 15, 2011

Here’s an exercise for you to determine what kind of “money personality” you have. No, I’m not suggesting that you are on the brink of experiencing multiple personality disorder. The truth is, we all have a money personality based on our attitude towards money, which stems from what we have observed concerning money matters since we [...]

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Hal got the axe. But he kept his head.

March 10, 2011

Axed from the job. Suddenly. Brutally. It feels something like losing your wallet, times a thousand, according to my friend Hal. He lost his job as a marketing executive after serving with an agency for more than a decade. He was 42 and full of optimism when he joined the company. When he was let [...]

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2011: A sure thing or a gamble?

January 5, 2011

This may be hard to fathom, but in North America one out of every four people believe their best chance of getting rich is by playing the lottery. That’s according to one pundit I recently tripped over online. If the claim is true, it’s shocking. And even if it’s only fractionally true, it’s still shocking. [...]

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Is your client a problem gambler?

October 26, 2010

I was recently interviewed by Investment Executive on the issue of problem gambling.  It has certainly become a larger problem in Canada in recent years and we at Credit Canada are finding the occurrence of problem gambling on the rise. It can wreak havoc on an individual’s home life, work life and health . As [...]

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