Meet Ken Doll Ken Doll is an experienced financial planner with more than 28 years helping clients with financial, retirement and estate planning. He has advised prominent families, professional athletes (including NHL players), executives, business owners, professionals, and farmers and ranchers—many with significant net worth ranging from about $2 million to over $100 million. Ken … Read more

Should your next furnace be a heat pump? Or, more precisely, should your next heating and cooling system be a heat pump? A heat pump can both warm and cool your home, making it a year‑round HVAC solution. Although heat pump technology dates back to the 19th century, widespread consumer awareness has only increased in … Read more

Ellyce Fulmore brings a personal, human-centered approach to money. As the founder and face of Queerd Co., she provides shame-free financial education that looks beyond spreadsheets to consider how race, gender, sexuality, mental health, disability and other identities shape people’s financial lives. Queerd Co. intentionally treats personal finance through an intersectional lens, acknowledging how privilege … Read more

Ellyce Fulmore Keeping finance personal Financial advice is rarely one-size-fits-all. For neurodivergent people—whose brains absorb and process information differently—conventional guidance often needs to be adapted. That’s been true for Calgary-based finfluencer Ellyce Fulmore. Since 2020 she has shared candid, witty observations about how ADHD shaped her relationship with money. Fulmore founded the financial literacy company … Read more

Mara Rubinoff and her partner bought their first home together with the intention of creating an inviting space for their blended family to enjoy. Because her partner had always wanted a backyard pool, adding one quickly became part of their plan. Less than a year after placing a deposit with their pool contractor, the family … Read more

Kyle Prevost, creator of 4 Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement, Canada’s DIY retirement planning course, summarizes recent financial headlines and provides context for Canadian investors. “The Big Cut” The Bank of Canada (BoC) cut its key interest rate to 4.75% on Wednesday — the first reduction since March 2020. For millions of Canadians, this move … Read more

Artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT may soon run into a critical shortage of the very material that has driven their rapid improvement: the enormous volume of human-written text published online. A recent study by the research group Epoch AI warns that technology companies could exhaust the supply of publicly available text data used to … Read more

Lululemon Athletica Inc.’s chief executive said the company’s fiscal year began on a “slower start” as it navigated continued volatility in consumer spending, but despite those challenges the athletic apparel retailer still delivered gains in both profit and revenue for the quarter. For the quarter ended April 28, Lululemon reported net income of USD 321 … Read more

Real estate analysts say the Bank of Canada’s decision to cut its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point could prompt many would-be homebuyers to re-enter the market. On Wednesday, the central bank announced its first rate reduction in more than four years, bringing the policy rate to 4.75%. This move immediately shifted attention … Read more

It’s official: interest rates in Canada have started to trend lower. On June 5, the Bank of Canada lowered its benchmark policy rate by 25 basis points, marking the central bank’s first cut since the early days of the pandemic. The move lowers the overnight lending rate and the commonly referenced prime rate to 4.75% … Read more