Financial and Estate Planning

For your entire adult life you are subject to taxation in some form or other. You may begrudge paying these taxes, but you nevertheless do, justifying the expense as the "required cost" of living in Canada. It therefore seems a bitter irony that the payment of taxes doesn't necessarily end when you die. You are likely aware of the various income taxes that are payable by your estate in the year of your death. However, you may not be aware that additional costs, sometimes referred to as a "death tax", can be incurred in the form of probate fees charged for duly approving your will through letters probate.
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New Year Financial Tune Up for Seniors

While you’re making your New Years’ resolutions, don’t forget to give your financial house an annual tune-up. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and few adjustments now could save you thousands of dollars, not to mention some major headaches, in the months and years to come.
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Seniors Canada Online

Canadians have said they want one-stop access to Government services, and the Government of Canada is committed to meeting this need. Government of Canada departments and agencies are grouping their electronic information and services according to topic or target audience. They are developing Internet sites that give Canadians access to this information. Seniors Canada On-line is the Government's response to seniors' request for easy electronic access to seniors-related services.
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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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