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How to start planning for your retirement in your 30s
10/04/2025
Tanya Reynolds
How can you achieve your retirement goals when you start saving in your 30s? These nine steps can help you get started.
January MNP Consumer Debt Index Recap (3 Minute Debt Break)
23/02/2022
MNP Consumer Debt Index
3 Minute Debt Break podcast
The latest debt index finds Canadians are showing record-low confidence levels when it comes to their personal finances and debt repayment abilities. Now in its nineteenth wave, the MNP Consumer Debt Index has reached the lowest point since inception, plummeting seven points since last quarter to 88 points.
Three-quarters of Ontarians have cut spending or postponed major purchases as they take steps to safeguard their finances amid economic uncertainty
14/04/2025
Caryl Newbery-Mitchell
MNP Consumer Debt Index
Three-quarters say they have cut back on spending due to economic uncertainty (75%), and say they are delaying major purchases or investments (76%), according to the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index.
Nearly three-quarters of Albertans have cut spending or postponed major purchases as they take steps to safeguard their finances amid economic uncertainty
14/04/2025
Lindsay Burchill
MNP Consumer Debt Index
Three-quarters (75%) say they have cut back on spending due to economic uncertainty, and nearly as many (71%) say they are delaying major purchases or investments, according to the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index.
Breaking the bankruptcy and insolvency stigma
12/02/2022
Vicky Samuels
MNP Consumer Debt Index
Debt Solutions
Lifestyle Debt
Breaking stigmas means ridding ourselves of our assumptions, generalizations, and broad-brush statements that are harmful to individuals and groups.
How to budget when you’re living paycheque to paycheque
02/09/2025
Caryl Newbery-Mitchell
Lifestyle Debt
Debt Solutions
You already know the many benefits of skilled money management. The fact you’re reading this blog post says at least that much. Your challenge, like for most households, is how to navigate the seemingly infinite demands on your frustratingly finite income.
Nearly three-quarters of Quebecers have cut spending or postponed major purchases as they take steps to safeguard their finances amid economic uncertainty
14/04/2025
Frederic Lachance
MNP Consumer Debt Index
Nearly three-quarters (73%) say they have cut back on spending due to economic uncertainty, and nearly as many (70%) say they are delaying major purchases or investments, according to the latest MNP Consumer Debt Index.
Six in 10 PEI residents concerned about impact of rising interest rates, up four points since September
22/02/2022
MNP Consumer Debt Index
As the country inches closer to the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement on March 2, 2022, many Atlantic Canadian households stretched thin by rising costs of living over the COVID-19 pandemic will be bracing for a potentially challenging year ahead. Nearly six in 10 (57%) Atlantic Canadians are concerned about the impact of rising interest rates on their financial situation, a four-point increase from September, according to a recent...
My spouse wants to declare bankruptcy and I don't, what are our options?
02/02/2022
Bradley Milne
Lifestyle Debt
Debt Solutions
Bankruptcy
Alternatives to Bankruptcy
Debt problems can strain relationships and cause stress for the entire family. If your spouse has met with a Licensed Insolvency Trustee and is (or is considering) filing a Bankruptcy, the impact on you will depend on the extent of your joint debt.
What will British Columbians’ costs of living look like in 2022?
01/02/2022
Leah Drewcock
Lifestyle Debt
Debt Solutions
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a seemingly endless list of one in a generation and once in a lifetime challenges. First came the worst virus in more than a century, followed quickly by mass layoffs and business closures. Now we’re facing a global supply chain crisis and the largest spike in inflation rates in nearly 20 years.
