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Cost of Living9:40Why you should consider a job in the trades A shortage of qualified people to work in skilled trades is making rising costs of living even worse, economists and trade industry veterans say. “It used to be 70 or 80 bucks for somebody to come to your houseContinue Reading

Cost of Living7:05Why is it easier to find cheap wine from Europe than Canada? Canadian wine lovers looking for an affordable bottle of vino are probably more likely to stroll the European aisles than those with local varieties. You can blame it, in part, on centuries of winemaking that haveContinue Reading

Cost of Living If you have a binder or box full of Pokémon cards sitting in your closet or basement, the contents could be worth thousands of dollars. Or maybe less than $100. It depends. Condition, rarity and when it was made all factor into the value of a cardContinue Reading

Cost of Living27:31Dead brands brought back to life One brand of clothing — specifically pants — has always had a special place in the closet of Alex Curry of Sexsmith, Alta., a small town about 20 kilometres north of Grand Prairie.  “From high school, I loved Modrobes. I think from about GradeContinue Reading

Cost of Living4:46Points taken When April Canavan’s inbox was suddenly flooded with emails in December, she knew something had gone wrong. The Vancouver woman found herself subscribed to mailing lists she’d never signed up for, along with emails saying she’d just redeemed PC Optimum points at a grocery store halfway acrossContinue Reading

Cost of Living9:53Mo money, mo happiness Money does indeed buy happiness, and it increases with a bigger paycheque more than economists previously believed, a recent analysis has found. Widely reported findings by two Nobel Prize-winning economists in 2010 cemented the idea that money could buy happiness only to a certain point — andContinue Reading

Cost of Living9:05Why instalment loans are the riskiest bet in finance Jolene Chateauneuf was just trying to avoid getting evicted. It was 2021, and she was short $1,500 for the rent on her apartment in Princeton, B.C., where she was living at the time. So she took out a rapidContinue Reading