Meet Our Authors

Barbara Demers, having served as a financial advisor for more than two decades, is now the head of the Académie des finances personnelles. The company provides coaching and training in personal finance.

Brett is a corporate paralegal and freelance writer focusing on business, legal, and finance topics. His work has appeared in Publisher's Weekly, Thrive Insider, and various academic journals. When he's not writing, parsing legal documents, or investing with Wealthsimple, you can find him behind a chessboard or with a good book.

Caitlin Wood is a blogger and has been writing about the personal finance issues that affect Canadians for over five years. She is head of content for LoansCanada.ca and manages a staff of talented writers. She is passionate about educating Canadian consumers about credit, debt and all things personal finance.

Ceilidh Barlow Cash is unstoppably multi-talented. At Hardbacon she translates, writes content, idea generates and organizes most things. She is a published poet, a performer and has a degree in Bio-Medical Sciences.

Christian D'Ambrosi is a YouTube scriptwriter that has worked with channels such as Destiny (650,000 subsc), Top Fives (1.8 million subs) and Interesting Facts (2.35 million subs). He's also a freelance writer for The Mike and TC24 News.

Claude Plante has been a journalist for the Sherbrooke daily newspaper La Tribune for the past thirty years. He has been interested in the stock market world since he was a teenager. He shares his passion for cycling on the Facebook page Le Cycliste du dimanche and his interest in the technologies developed by Elon Musk on the Facebook page Infos Elon Musk.