Canadian Personal Finance Blog

The patron Saint of Wales is Saint David and for those of us with heritage in Wales, we celebrate today by thinking of all the horrible rugby calls made by Blind Irish Referees at Twickenham. Well maybe not, but there have been enough of them. Enjoy this traditionally cold and wet day (as are most days in Wales). Have some leak soup, some faggots and mushy peas and then drop by the local for a quiet pint.The Carnival of Ethics,Values and Personal Finance #4 is up at Grad Money Matters, and they have in their fine “omnibus” my article on time with the family.

Glad to see the price of consumer computers continues to drop according to Stats Canada as well, this means I can think about buying a new computer one day very soon, I hope.

Gas shortages continue in Ottawa, which makes me reminisce about the 70’s when this happened last. Allegedly this is only a temporary shortage, thanks to a refinery fire, but maybe it’s a dress rehearsal for 10 years from now, when this is real? Who knows? Gas at 95 cents a liter when you can find it, worries the leaving crap out of me.

And finally Canada’s working poor are not benefiting from the economic boom here, which is worrisome as well. The rich are getting richer, but I think I already said that, but now, there is more evidence that things are not getting any better for the working poor either. Another worrisome topic.