The 60 Mark: Hello Retirement?

After years of anticipation, the first of the baby boomers turned 60 in the year 2006. There are many baby boomers who will be taking the traditional retirement approach, choosing to retire at age 65 and enjoying their lives away from work.
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Can't Manage? Try Managed Money

A million bucks isn't what it used to be, but whenever the media refers to a person as a "millionaire" it's meant to an elitist, and usually a negative, term - at least in Canada. In the States, it's a different thing, as self-made, egocentric rich people like Ted Turner and Donald Trump are sources of both envy and pride. In the U.S., wealth means success in a capitalist society. Here it means you probably won by shafting other people, and you should feel guilty.
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A Simple Income Tax Telephone Service for Canadian Seniors

Service for Seniors provides a simple system for low-income seniors in Canada, or those helping them with their income taxes, to file their Canadian income tax returns by phone.
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Plan for Living – Will Illness Destroy your Retirement?

We close our eyes and we dream. We dream about foreign travel and exotic locations. We dream of a quiet country home and peaceful surroundings. We dream of a stress-free lifestyle and idyllic family life. Are these visions mutual fund commercials? No. Retirement dreams. Oh they may be idealistic, but they’re ours, and it doesn’t seem to matter if you’re in your 20s, 40s or 60s, we all dream of a retirement free of day-to-day pressures and oodles of time and opportunities to pursue all those dreams and leisure activities we’ve delayed doing. We all believe that we will lead better lives when we ‘retire’.
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