Growing up with FIRE: These adults on the path to early retirement share lessons from their frugal parents
Achieving financial independence requires making big decisions and sacrifices: Should you downsize your home? Will you start saying no to happy hour more often? But for some people, it wasn’t as far of a leap after watching their parents do the same. That was the case for Jessica, a blogger behind The Fioneers and a […]
Stocks to Watch: Guyana Goldfields Inc. (TSX:GUY) Up +17.17%
At close of market on Thursday, Guyana Goldfields Inc. (TSX:GUY) stock finished trading at +17.17%, bringing the stock price to $1.16 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock price saw a low of $1.04 and a high of $1.17. The company’s stock was traded 926 times with a total of 1,850,457 shares traded. Guyana Goldfields […]
TSX down, U.S. markets up
Canada’s main stock index fell in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the technology, materials and financial sectors. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 26.14 points at 16,501.76. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 129.43 points at 27,217.51. The S&P 500 index was up 5.58 points at 3,005.49, while the […]
Alberta wants pipeline say
Alberta wants to have its say when British Columbia goes to the Supreme Court for a ruling on who is in charge of interprovincial projects like pipelines. The Alberta government says it has filed a notice of intervention in B.C.’s appeal to the top court. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the B.C. Court of Appeal […]
Thousands of sales lost
Home sales in B.C. last year would have been about 10 per cent, or 7,500 units, higher if the B20 mortgage stress test hadn’t been introduced, according to a new economic study by the B.C. Real Estate Association. The rest of the real estate slowdown can be explained by other market factors, such as rising […]
New tidal power project
Another company has been granted permission to try to harness electricity from the powerful tides of the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia’s Department of Energy and Mines has issued two renewable energy permits to Jupiter Hydro. The first permit allows the company to test a one-megawatt prototype that is not connected to the electricity grid. […]