Quotes of the Day

You can make tremendous gains when you subdivide a large premise into smaller areas. [2001] - Dolf de Roos

Contact the lawyer referral service in your community. Under this service, sponsored by the provincial law society or a provincial division of the Canadian Bar Association, you can consult with a lawyer for about half an hour for either a nominal fee (usually $10-$25) or no fee at all. Make sure you emphasize that you want a lawyer who specializes in real estate--ideally, condominium real estate. If you did not obtain the referral through the lawyer referral service, ask the lawyer over the phone what a half-hour initial consultation would cost. In many cases, it is free as a marketing goodwill gesture. [2006] - Douglas Gray

If you are buying a condominium as your principal residence, you generally don't pay any fees, other than the appraisal fee to the mortgage broker. [2017] - Calum Ross

In my own research program in the 1970s and 1980s on experimental rats, as well as in The China Study, we repeatedly established the ability of higher consumption of the milk-based protein casein to dramatically increase a growth hormone associated with increased cancer development. In contrast, high levels of a "low-quality" wheat protein had the opposite effect. Due to its "deficiency" in the amino acid lysine, the wheat protein prevented cancer development. (We know that the missing lysine was responsible for this change because when lysine was restored, cancer growth resumed to the same level as for the casein.) [2020] - T. Colin Campbell

I often see situations where people in retirement have non-registered mutual funds and the taxable distributions are being reinvested. Don't do that! During the income phase, any interest, dividends or capital gains that are distributed from non-registered GICs, GIAs, bonds, mutual funds etc. should be paid out to you as income rather than compounded or reinvested. Compounding your GIC is simply compounding your tax problem. Have the interest paid out to you at the time you're taking income. [2019] - Daryl Diamond