Year-round garden provides free fresh vegetables to hundreds on Manitoba’s Opaskwayak Cree Nation
2016 pilot project now permanent, feeds 125 families with produce Stephanie Cook didn’t know what kohlrabi was and had never eaten a brussels sprout three years ago, but now she not only eats them — she grows them for hundreds of people in her northern Manitoba community. “I knew what romaine lettuce was, I knew […]
Nova Scotia woman wins Queen’s award for volunteer work
Jane Roy, founder of Catapult Leadership Society, runs camp for youth with limited opportunities A Halifax woman is being honoured with a volunteer award signed by Queen Elizabeth II for her work with a camp for youth who display natural leadership qualities but have few opportunities to grow them. Jane Roy, the founder of the […]
Tax Shelters 101
When people think of tax shelters, they sometimes think of Swiss bank accounts, shady overseas investments, or fraudulent or questionable activities by wealthy but unscrupulous businessmen. That is an unfair characterization. The TurboTax website sums it up nicely – “A tax shelter is any legal strategy (that) you employ to reduce the amount of income […]
What to do with a windfall
We all dream of that phone call announcing that we’ve won a large sum of money or inherited a small fortune from a distant relative, but do we really know what we would do with our unexpected windfall? Although we may be tempted go on the shopping spree of a lifetime, the smart thing would […]
Millennials saving well, but they’re investing their money all wrong
We’re used to hearing bad news on the retirement savings front, given the number of Americans who are currently unprepared. But Millennials may be bucking an otherwise dangerous trend. A good 71% of younger workers are saving for retirement, either in a 401(k) or another dedicated plan, according to Transamerica. And 39% of Millennials are […]
This Millennial Couple Is Saving $150,000 a Year and Plans to Retire by 2029. Here’s How They Do It
Some kids want to be a fire fighter, astronaut or a ballerina when they grow up. Lily He wanted to be a millionaire. Lily and her parents immigrated to the U.S. when she was nine and lived in poverty on the outskirts of San Francisco. She had just two pairs of pants in fourth grade […]