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MoneySense executive editor Lisa Hannam stands in front of text saying ”How the Bank of Canada’s Interest Rate Affects you.“

Financial literacy

Video: How the Bank of Canada’s interest rate affects you

The Bank of Canada’s interest rate affects everything from your savings account to your mortgage payments. Learn more in...

Video: How the Bank of Canada’s interest rate affects you
A man thinks about the stock losses in his TFSA as he jogs through a leafy park

Ask a Planner

Selling stocks at a loss in a TFSA: What it means for your contribution room

Before holding speculative stocks in a TFSA, consider what reporting a capital loss means for your contribution room going...

Selling stocks at a loss in a TFSA: What it means for your contribution room
Financial planner Michelle Hung looks at the camera, smiling slightly with her arms crossed in front of office buildings.

My MoneySense

Meet Michelle Hung: The Sassy Investor who shows clients how to realize their worth

Michelle Hung is a Chartered Financial Analyst and fee-only planner who left her corporate job to help people achieve...

Meet Michelle Hung: The Sassy Investor who shows clients how to realize their worth
Portrait of Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen

My MoneySense

Kristy Shen on living the FIRE life and using money to “buy back time”

The Millennial Revolution blogger chose a life of adventure over mortgage debt. Here’s how she retired in her 30s,...

Kristy Shen on living the FIRE life and using money to “buy back time”

Investing

Making sense of the markets this week: April 2, 2023

No love for banks in the 2023 federal budget, Dollarama and Lulu stretch profits, banks stabilize (for now), and...

Making sense of the markets this week: April 2, 2023
View of the parliament buildings in Ottawa

Financial Planning

Canada’s Budget 2023: What it means for you and your family

The federal government’s 2023 budget proposes a national dental care plan, a grocery rebate, changes to registered accounts, and...

Canada’s Budget 2023: What it means for you and your family
A row of Montreal townhomes in autumn

Making It

First home savings account: A Gen Z guide to achieving home ownership

If you want to be a home owner in Canada, here’s how the new tax-free FHSA could get you...

First home savings account: A Gen Z guide to achieving home ownership
A couple consider paint samples after purchasing their first home

Real Estate

How to take advantage of the first home savings account

The federal government will launch the FHSA as part of a suite of measures to support first-time home buyers....

How to take advantage of the first home savings account
A retiree with her adult child's own family at their first home, thanks to the FHSA

Retired Money

How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children

Canada’s new first home savings account nicely complements earlier real estate programs. Retirees with grown adult children should take...

How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children