REPORT: B.C. women are financially stressed, stretched and under-resourced

by Eloise Duncan | Mar 7, 2018 | Financial Health, Financial Resilience, Financial Wellness, Vancity, Women Financial Health

March 7, 2018, Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – B.C. women worry more than B.C. men about their finances, with 52% experiencing “extreme emotional stress” and 59% feeling unsatisfied with their financial situation, according to a new Vancity...

The lessons from Canada’s attempts to curb its house-price boom – Written by the Economist

by Eloise Duncan | Jun 23, 2017 | Financial Health, Financial Wellness

IN MATTERS of finance, if not climate, Canada is usually temperate. It was barely moved by the economic storms that blew the roof off America and Europe in 2008-09. Its banks were steady, it was argued, in part because they were shielded from the ferocious competition...

A 10% hike to mortgage payments would sink almost 3 quarters of homeowners, Manulife says

by Eloise Duncan | Jun 9, 2017 | Financial Health, Financial Resilience, Financial Wellness

Almost three quarters of Canadian homeowners would have difficulty paying their mortgage every month if their payments increased by as little as 10 per cent, a new survey from Manulife Bank suggests. The bank polled 2,098 homeowners — between the ages of 20 to 69 with...