Thomas Guenther

Travel Hacking in Canada was terrifying to me when I first heard about it. We have notoriously expensive travel costs and I didn’t think that it would be easy to do. I was wrong. What travel hacking in Canada really means is manipulating rewards programs. You find and exploit loopholes in credit card rewards programs […]

Tiktok is life for a lot of people, and it’s full of content creators offering suggestions on all aspects of finance. They can’t call it actual advice for legal reasons but we can call them Fintokers!  Financial Tiktokers centre their content around a few major areas in the finance niche: getting started with stocks and […]

Which of the four Canadian stock exchanges is your favourite? Surprise! There is more than just one and each has a specialty.  Once you take a minute to learn the basics, you’ll realize that there’s a whole new world that you never knew existed, and there’s a lot of money to be made there. So, […]

Manitoba and five other provinces raised minimum wage Saturday, October 1st. Minimum wage employees in Manitoba will see a tidy $1.55 hike in their hourly pay as the provincial minimum wage leapt up from $11.95 all the way to $13.50 on the weekend. This recent bump was the biggest by far in the past decade, […]

Here’s the skinny, car insurance is not the same across Canada. Many provinces have very different regulations about how you insure your car, motorcycle, snowmobile, moped, farm equipment, and flying skateboard. I’ll try to offer some helpful information on navigating this world of insurance laws, provincial bodies, and private companies. If you own a vehicle, […]