the Wealthy Canadian

Stats Canada released the July Consumer Price Index report. Inflation is up moderately to 2.2%, with Western Canada still seeing the largest inflationary pressure.
“For the fourth straight month, owned accommodation costs were the main contributor to the year-over-year increase in the CPI.
The component that contributed the most to the increase of owned accommodation costs [...]

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How do you define wealth, what things do you value?

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A fellow blogger who always has something interesting to say, Brip Brap, is giving away a copy of David Bach’s Smart Couples Finish Rich. Go check it out and enter his contest. Incidentally, I’m added him to my blogroll as well.

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Two fundamental laws to consider when planning for a project:

Parkinson’s Law states that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Hofstadter’s Law states that: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law. “

When I was an engineering student I learnt from a very wise [...]

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I plan on writing a post on what the foreign currency exchange is and how it can impact investors. But first, however, is this post simply to inform you the John Chow is giving away copies of Grace Cheng’s book, 7 Winning Strategies for Trading the Forex

Grace Cheng is a successful forex trader [...]

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