Paradise doesnt always look the way you expect it to. My husband Harvey and I were just looking for sun, sand and lots of RR. What we got instead was IV antibiotics, nebulizers and anti-inflammatory drugs at a very efficient private hospital in Cancun, Mexico. All I can say is thank God we have travel medical insurance! My beloved Harvey started getting a nagging dry cough and a tight chest five days into our two-week vacation. The morning of day six, he said Maybe we should go to the resort doctor about my cough.

One thing is for sure, a new financial institution in Kerrisdale is not your grandmother’s bank.

The hunt for a dream home is often focused on the physical: the type of house, the number of rooms, the neighbourhood it’s located in. But in truth, making the right choice involves all sorts of less visible but equally critical considerations – and key among them is the mortgage.

Is compound interest the eighth wonder of the world? According to Albert Einstein, who knew much about the effects of time, yes it is.

For a business owner, collecting and remitting sales tax, both GST and PST, is annoying enough without discovering that you may have been inadvertently overpaying the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).