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Did you see UN-BROKE: What You Need To Know About Money On ABC Friday night?  Starring Seth Green, Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Slater, the one-time special purports to help educate us (or those who don’t know) about personal finance.  We can call it the celebrification of personal finance.
I didn’t catch it on TV, but [...]

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Ashton Kutcher is officially the first person to reach over one million viewers on his Twitter account.  He’s been posting videos to his Ustream TV page throughout the night last night (Thursday night) documenting the victory.  I hadn’t been paying much (any!) attention to the whole fiasco, but late Thursday night (about 40 minutes after [...]

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As Jonathan Chevreau posted in yesterday’s Financial Post, the CanadianMoneyForum is now live on http://www.canadianmoneyforum.com – as its name implies, this is a general meeting place for discussion of all things Canadian and finance-related.  In the past 24 hours, there has been an amazing outpouring of new posts – over 1000.  So far there are [...]

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We: fellow bloggers, readers, members of the media, financial analysts, and government officials such as Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty.  This past Friday (March 27, 2009) Mr. McGuinty was quoted (in response to a possible freezing of the minimum wage in Ontario) as saying
“What’s happening here is big, really big,” said Mr. McGuinty. “We can’t keep [...]

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Lately, I spend way too much time sifting through the news and blogs for the latest updates on the economy.  While doing that, I sometimes get distracted by the “most popular news” headlines and who knows what else.  Frankly, it’s getting in the way of my work.  So I’m taking Steve Pavlina’s advice (I know [...]

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I’m not a big TV person but I’ve recently re-discovered BNN, Canada’s Business News Network. Maybe I’m going through a phase, but I think I could watch this at any hour of the day. Definitely between projects and other activities. Every half hour there’s a different “program” on — Market Watch, Night [...]

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I’ve followed Ellen Roseman’s personal finance columns in the Sunday Toronto Star for more than a few years now, off and on, always looking forward to the possibility that I might find a new little financial gem of advice in there. Sometimes, I have. Most of the time I’m reminded and reinspired about [...]

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