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International Women's Day: Honouring Women & Money and Why We Can Do Better

The year is 1989 when Ilyce Glink, then founder and president of Think Glink Media walked into her local bank with her husband to apply for a mortgage. Now sitting down with the bank’s mortgage specialist, Ilyce began describing her monthly income to help the mortgage specialist determine the couple’s borrowing threshold. “Don’t worry honey, your income doesn’t even count”, she recalls being told by the mortgage specialist (1).

Financial Markets React to Trump Victory!

What do we expect from the new U.S. President?

As always, anytime there is an unexpected outcome in political elections, financial markets don’t like the uncertainty. This was evident last night when the future’s markets pointed to fairly significant declines when global markets were set to open for business this morning (1).

During the election campaign, President Elect Donald Trump spoke tirelessly about certain divisive issues, such as:

• Trade Protectionism
• Energy Reform
• Tax Reform
• Health Care Reform
• Immigration/Illegal Immigration Reform

Travel Insurance: Four Things You MUST Know

You’ve never needed travel insurance until you needed it. Let me start by telling my story.

In my early 20’s, I booked a trip to the Dominican Republic. Being young, naïve and somewhat confident that “it wouldn’t happen to me”, I decided to forego the purchase of travel insurance while away on my one week getaway.

On the very first day of my trip, I had an uncomfortable feeling on the surface of my abdomen. After lying in the sun all day, I felt further irritation. I knew that something was wrong when I woke up the next morning with massive blisters on my stomach.

Group Of Seven Learn Financial Life Skills At An Early Age

No, I am not talking about the group of famous Canadian landscape painters from the 1920s. I’m talking about the seven of us children raised by my parents, Sue and Paul.

Growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, our family was like most others in rural Nova Scotia. Mom and Dad had plenty of mouths to feed and limited resources. But they were educated and determined to teach us life’s valuable lessons, including finance, during our early school years.

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