According to the September RBC Canadian Consumer Outlook Index, Canadian confidence has dropped significantly, reflecting the concerns over the pace of the global economic recovery. Since December 2009, the Index has hovered around the same mark, however in the recent outlook, it has dropped 14 points from 108, making it 94 points. The decline was

Last Monday I asked whether or not you were ready to tackle your personal finances. Here’s the truth. Keeping track of your personal finances – setting goals, making a budget, sticking to it – is hard work. Its not even a lot of fun or enjoyable most of the time. You’re not going to want

One of the biggest struggles that I have had with my personal finances has been setting proper goals. For the most part, all of my “goals” have simply been purchases. When I was younger, I wanted to get a nice mountain bike like my friends had, so slowly but surely I started saving and saving,

Over the last few years, I’ve started (but not completed) a fair number of physical fitness “regimes”. While I was in college, I tried going swimming every other day (great workout), going to the gym every other day, running a certain distance in a certain amount of time, etc. After awhile, all of them would