Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Archive for December 7th, 2007

To end the week let’s wander around the financial world this week:

• If you were planning on giving a gift card for Christmas, careful where you buy them from. Evidently “Mall” gift cards (i.e. a gift card for all the participating stores in the Mall), are not covered yet under the new Consumer Protection Act in Canada. This means they can have expiration dates and all the other dirty tricks that used to haunt this “gift giving vehicle” so keep that in mind.
• The Canadian Capitalist posted a whole bunch of fun gift ideas on his blog, hope he has a good Christmas Saving Plan in place to pay for all of them.
• There are more foreign born folk in Canada than in the past 75 years (19.8%), being the child of immigrant parents, I am proud to say immigrants helped make Canada what it is today.
• Unemployment bounced a little for October with it going up for the first time in a while to 5.9%, the Manufacturing sector took a big hit with the stronger dollar and new job seekers (students and immigrants) both added to this number as well. Is this a sign of what is to come?

Posts for the Week

• Snow: Shovel? Snowblower? Service?
• Rates Drop by a 1/4 %
• Caution: Rant Ahead (Investor Profiles)
• Christmas Saving Ideas