Gary Parkinson

Travel insurance is always a good idea if you’re leaving the country — even if you’re only an hour outside the Canada-U.S. border. Provincial healthcare has its limits.

We all travel a lot more now than our ancestors did. We travel all over the world and only think of the jet lag, and not the vast distances we cover. Our world has become smaller and more reachable. And this is a good thing. It helps us to understand…

This is the first day of March Break for most families across Canada. For many people, March Break means a quiet stay-cation near the homestead.

Family Literacy Day is an annual initiative encouraging parents, teachers, even companies to set aside 15 minutes and help children read good stories.

The Situation When I finished college, I was in my share of personal debt. My situation, one shared by millions of new graduates, was made even worse by graduating in the heart of the 2008 recession. The recession all but eliminated entry level jobs for those of us fresh out of school.

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image by Darren Calabrese with the National Post If you live in or have visited the financial district in Toronto since 2011, you likely noticed the Trump International Hotel & Tower near the corners of Bay and Adelaide Streets. The tower is named after US real estate and investment guru Donald Trump, who is also a minority shareholder in the skyscraper.

The most eastern province in Canada and the last to join Confederation in 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) is interesting in how the population inhabits the province.

As the smallest province in Canada, the size of the housing market in Prince Edward Island is substantially less than the rest of the country.

Smaller than all provinces but PEI, yet retaining one of the most densely populated landmasses in all of Canada, Nova Scotia was home to one of the first permanent settlements from European explorers in the 1600s.

The gateway between Canada’s traditional manufacturing heartland and the newer resource sectors, Manitoba is changing in ways that are unlike many of the other provinces. Whereas many regions across the country are seeing limited economic investments from the private sector, the ratio of private vs. public growth in Manitoba actually favours the private market.

Ever since 2007, the economy of Saskatchewan has been booming stronger than any province in Canada, rivaling the economic strength of Alberta. Economic growth contributed to strong net gains in housing sales and average prices, with new housing starts rising or falling based on supply.

Applying for a rewards credit card is a thrilling experience for many of us.

Thousands of people are migrating to Alberta from all over the country for new opportunities.

Canadians coast to coast to coast are awaiting their first post-holiday credit card statements.

Family members attempt to catch last minute flights home for the holiday, while shoppers on both sides of the border prepare for holiday sales.

The latest announcement from the Bank of Canada stated that the country’s overnight interest rate will remain locked at 1 percent for a longer period of time.

The Senate scandal surrounding former Conservative, now Independent Senator Mike Duffy is one of the most extensive and corrupt stories to hit the Canadian public since the Liberal sponsorship scandal. And it appears to be getting murkier and murkier with each passing day.