Back To School - Getting Off On the Right Foot

Michelle Vandepol writes about how to stay organized at this busy time of year.

Organizing oneself to get the kids back to school is the sort of thing mothers either love or dread or feel conflicted about. I think it all comes down to the part of fall cleaning where everything in the house gets pulled out to look for something specific like sports gear, reusable school supplies and backpacks, lunch bags, etc. How does it usually end? With everything out and the house in need of a clean and then before you know it, it's dinner and everything is out and dinner is not on, and you are no further than when you started except maybe a little grumpier. It's enough to make you not want to even start.

The Summer of Reinvention

As summer stretches out before us, we hope you are having a chance to relax and enjoy yourselves.  When you get a moment, I am sure you will enjoy Michelle Vanderpol's article about ways to keep the lovely relaxed feeling of summer even when the kids go back to school. Along with tips on how to "life sort" this is a great read for the summer.

Green investing - why bother?

Increasingly, Canadians are deciding that they want to invest in a way that is aligned with their social conscience. What that conscience tells them differs from person to person and from fund company to fund company.

From there, individual investors, the media, and critics wonder aloud whether there is any point at all to selecting funds that have used various screens to select companies they believe are making a positive change.