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Weekend Reading – Halloween wrap-up and great blogs edition

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Mark | 22 Comments

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween. Nothing scary about these articles, well, at least this week’s edition. Have a great weekend and make sure you come back next week – I’m going to giveaway a book to…

Weekend Reading – Books to help Canadians save more money and great blogs

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Mark | 7 Comments

Headlining the Weekend Reading roundup is Canada’s Frugal Couple, Steve and Linda Zussino who launched a free ebook this week to help Canadians save and make better use of their money. The free ebook is entitled Top 100 Websites for…

Weekend Reading – Cash back credit cards, economist predictions and great blogs

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Mark | 16 Comments

Leading off the best from the blogosphere this week, Boomer & Echo told us about the best no fee cash back credit cards in Canada. My favourite is the MBNA Smart Cash MasterCard. As Boomer & Echo nicely stated “with this…

Long Weekend Reading – Giving thanks and recognizing great blogs

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Mark | 9 Comments

With the fall season upon us, I’ve been thinking it’s a good time to review my financial plan and objectives for 2012 as this year heads into the homestretch. I’ll be working on that over the next few weeks and…

Weekend Reading – the end of some blogs and the growth of others

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Mark | 14 Comments

Earlier this week I learned Balance Junkie is calling it quits. Balance Junkie will continue on with other bloggers providing site content but I will miss Kim’s frank and passionate views about personal finance and the financial industry in general. …

Weekend Reading – Laptop back, CPFC12 and great blogs

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Mark | 9 Comments

It was a good week folks and it’s shaping up to be a great weekend. I got my laptop back on Tuesday, they fixed my LCD screen and it works as good as new. Work was busy this week but I…

Weekend Reading – the greatness of Michael Phelps, Clara Hughes and some fine blogs

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Mark | 17 Comments

Weekend Reading – the greatness of Michael Phelps, Clara Hughes and some fine blogs Are you serious? 16 Olympic gold medals? 20 Olympic medals overall? Superhuman really. Congratulations to Michael Phelps on becoming the most decorated Olympian ever. The scary…

Weekend Reading – Tax returns, tax software giveaways and great blogs

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Mark | 16 Comments

Weekend Reading – Tax returns, tax software giveaways and great blogs This past week was busy at work, and at home. On the home front, we submitted our tax return. I’ve done my own taxes ever since I can remember –…