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My house, as I told my insurance broker recently, is the Canadian housing equivalent of ancient. Built in the 1910s in Saskatoon, this house has many foibles. To hang pictures, I have to use wood screws lest regular nails bounce off of the layers and layers of paint. My basement is a little more than a horror movie-esque concrete box. Perhaps its most damning feature until last year was its lack of a wheelchair lift. One grant, and more than $20,000 later, that has been rectified. The administra

Nobody moves to Canada excited about price matching. When my family immigrated in 2019, I expected to spend countless hours learning about taxes, credit scores, saving plans and all the other financial building blocks that make this country unique. I knew there would be a learning curve, and I was ready for it. Those were the things I assumed would shape my financial life here. Price matching never once crossed my mind.Like many newcomers, I spent my first few months trying to make sense of a fi