Retirement

Choosing Your Lifestyle: How To Maintain Your Independence After Retirement

Retirement - how do you feel when you hear this word?             Well, it probably depends on how old you are and how you have set things up for when you...
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How The Squat Is The Most Important Exercise For Seniors

Getting out of a chair, off the toilet or just standing up are things we do everyday, which make it easy to undervalue the importance of being able to squat.  In my...
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The Truth About Retirement

The dictionary’s definition of retirement is to “withdraw from one’s position or occupation or from active working life.” A century ago retirement didn’t exist. It has come into being...
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Mortgage Renewals In Canada: More Bad News

Last month Mortgage Trends received an email from a distraught client who had just received a letter from his mortgage lender letting him know his mortgage maturing in just...
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Medicating With Cannabis Without The “High”

The Growing Therapeutic Values CBD Cannabis is becoming an increasingly prevalent part of society, attributed to sweeping medical and recreational legalization across North America. Many readers might be surprised to...
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The Effects of Alcohol on Older Adults

Don’t assume that all drunk drivers are young people who have made a bad decision. Most of us usually think that those charged with drunk driving offenses are too...
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Spring Cleaning Tips

While the calendar marked the first official day of spring on March 20th, Mother Nature has taken her sweet time. Many of us mark spring with a ritual of...