What is OAS? The Old Age Security pension is a monthly payment available to Canadians aged 65 and older who apply and meet certain requirements. Unlike CPP, it is not dependent on a person’s employment history and a person does not need to be retired from a job to qualify. The government adjusts the OAS [...]
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Personal Expense Management
Ever wondered where your hard earned money goes? It comes from your hard work and then just disappears at the end of the month, right? Luckily, tracking your cash outflow is not so hard and made simpler with the information era. How great would it be, if by a click of mouse you can open [...]
You can achieve anything—if you have faith Dog Walks without Front Legs
-an inspiring story This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002. He was born with 3 legs – 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which need to be amputated. He of course could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not want him. His first owner [...]
ABC of Life
Who am I? Have you ever asked this question? Your possible answers could include describing your relationship with another. You may be a child to your parents; life partner to your spouse; parent to your child; friend to an intimate person; employee in a work place; we can keep on adding many things to this [...]
HOW TO GET A JOB IN A BANK OR FINANCIAL FIRM
by Aizad Ahmad When you opened your first bank account, did you ever wonder how that person got the job and what qualifications, skills and knowledge they had to attain? Six years ago, when I landed here in Canada, I wondered the same, and thought it quite impossible to get a job in the banking/financial sector. [...]
Market your products and services for Free
by Karthik Asymmetric warfare a.k.a guerrilla warfare is a means for a smaller force to overwhelm and ultimately win over a much larger and well organized conventional army. You must be wondering what the earlier line has got to do with marketing. Well, marketing is a kind of battle in which the success is defined [...]
How to Nurture your dreams
by GNANI You acquire a vision, based on your dreams. Vision is a big picture. It is what you see yourself as in the future. Dream is a fluid state; vision is a semi solid state. Put your vision on the paper. Now it becomes your future plan or goal, a solid state. Set some [...]
Life Goals and Solutions
Life goals often change. As you go through different stages of life, you have different goals at each stage of life. With the changing circumstances of life, you require different solutions. The general pattern of life cycle, life goals and solutions can be summarized as follows: Post secondary years (ages 17 to 25 generally) Life [...]
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