Expensive Food and Shelter in April 2016 in Canada
In April 2016 Food and Shelter were key contributors to the increase in Inflation.
Happy Victoria Day
Enjoy Victoria Day or Journee Des Patriotes the official start of the summer in Canada! Drive carefully!
Victoria Day, The People’s Elbow, Haircuts and #MoneyTalk
It’s the Victoria Day weekend, except for those in Quebec who celebrate La Fete Des Patriotes. If you’re in Ottawa, this is the first weekend you should be planting things. If you planted anything earlier, you’re most likely unhappy due to the frosts we had over the past two weeks.
I have decided I want to be Floyd Mayweather’s new barber as he has haircuts 3 times a week, and he pays $1000 each time (oh and he is bald, it seems too). This sounds like my kind of career, whether Mr. Mayweather pays this or not, I suppose he is helping the economy by spreading his wealth around? Luckily football players like Cam Newton don’t waste their money on 24-Karat GoldClassic Oldsmobile 442 Cutlass, it’s an investment (?!?!?).
I think Terry Mosher’s (Aislin) comic sums it up nicely, at least the house of commons isn’t dull and boring any more. I have heard that a red card should have been given for flopping though, but that is for others to discuss, I simply enjoyed the Media’s painful overstatement when things started,”… there seems to have been a brawl in the house of commons…”.
If you use Linked-in (as I do), hopefully you have changed your password since 2013 (or so)? If not, think about it, because that old password is out there and available to some nasty folks (and don’t choose any of these). Unfortunately if you were a Mobilicity subscriber, you are now a Chatr customer (whether you wanted to be or not).
My Writings for Week Ending May 20th
Do you like using new technologies and wonder why you can’t use Interac with your Apple Pay on your iPhone 6.0, well good news for you in Apple Pay and Interac Together (but is this a good thing)? Is NFC really secure?
Went back into my large archive of semi-complete articles with Hippocratic Finances, can you argue you are doing no harm with your finances?Vic
A Retirement Thought
“If I’d known I was gonna live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself”
— Eubie Blake
Here is another thought:
Read More »Victoria Day, The People’s Elbow, Haircuts and #MoneyTalkDebts and weights are easy to gain, hard to lose.
Hippocratic Finances
Hippocratic finances are quite simple , simply do no harm to your own finances and you will be miles ahead of your contemporaries.
Apple Pay and Interac Together
Apple pay has finally come to Canada, and it seems most major banks are embracing the technology, but is it a good thing?
