Buying a first home in Canada can feel out of reach when you’re also a newcomer. Between building your permanent residency, paying rent, and setting up a household from scratch, saving for a down payment often gets pushed to “later.” My family felt the same way — we focused on settling in first, and it…
There’s one account in Canada that quietly saves me more in taxes than almost anything else I do — and for the first few years I lived here, I barely understood it. I kept mixing it up with the RRSP, assumed it was “just a savings account,” and didn’t open one until years after I…
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This post may contain an affiliate link (for Wealthsimple). If you sign up through it, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend platforms I actually use myself. When I first moved to Canada, someone told me “just open a TFSA and an RRSP” like it was the…
