6 Ways Students Can Make Some Extra Cash
Living on a student budget isn’t always easy. Students are often cash-strapped and a little extra money here and there can be a big help. Whether you’re trying to maximize your cash flow throughout...
Author: Kyle Prevost
Looking back at the Cost of University Education in Canada
From sea-to-sea-to-sea, Canada is home to a bevy of beautiful college and university campuses, filled with bright minds, big ideas, and dreams waiting to be realized. Over time, access to post-secondary education has gone...
4 Tips for Last-Minute Summer Job Seekers
While the best time to snag an in-demand, rewarding, well-paying summer job was probably last November or December, the second-best time is right now! If you haven’t locked down a way to replenish your...
Student Housing: Living On Campus vs Off Campus
As the school year draws to an end it can be tempting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and push everything except exams to the back of your mind. One...
How to Handle Spring Break’s Financial Hangover
Three weeks after you get home from a “fun-in-the-sun” Spring Break, reality hits. The only thing fading faster than your tan is your bank account. In a perfect world, you would have done a...
Making Taxes Less Taxing for Students
Want your courses to suddenly become more appealing? Simply look at a tax form and that essay on Chaucer will instantly become an entertaining endeavor that must be undertaken immediately. While taxes aren’t everyone’s...
How to Reach Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions
It’s a brand new year – a time when big ideas about starting fresh come to the forefront. We know that goal setting works because most successful people talk about how important it is....
Stress-Reducing Exam Hacks that Your Wallet Approves of
No one is at their best when large amounts of stress enter the equation (aka – exam time!). Some of us reach for junk food as our guilty pleasure of choice, while others hit...
Signing up for Your First Credit Card
*Free* blankets, cookies, or trinkets being handed out in return for signing up for a credit card is as much a part of the new school year as textbooks and tuition payments. The traditional...
A Lesson in Disaster-Proofing Your Life
November is Financial Literacy Month and while it’s great that an entire month is dedicated to raising awareness about how Canadians can better manage money, it’s important to remember that there is no off-season...
