LIVERPOOL, England – Even when his players were basking in the afterglow of ending Liverpool’s 30-year English title drought, Jürgen Klopp was quick to temper the giddiness. “When you think you have reached the pinnacle,” the Liverpool manager told them last July, “you are already on the way down.” It has turned out to be […]
Author Archives: Support Tips
KRALJEVO, Serbia – Leylah Annie Fernandez and Rebecca Marino will play the singles matches for Canada in a Billie Jean King Cup playoff tie against host Serbia on Friday and Saturday. Fernandez, the top-ranked singles player in the indoor hard-court tie at No. 72, will face world No. 162 Olga Danilovic in the opener, while […]
In Your Corner: Should you invest in stocks or bonds? | The Star “,”heading”:””,”fullWindow”:false,”fullBleed”:false,”showFullBleedOnMobile”:false,”headColor”:””,”type”:”html5mobile”,”textColor”:””,”mobileImageUrl”:””,”bgColor”:””,”imageUrl”:””,”registeredOnly”:false,”linkUrl”:””,”aodaTitle”:”Graphic showing S&P/TSX Composite Index: Performance over last 10 years”,”internalScroll”:false,”displayStyle”:”small-up”},{“text”:”“Very few people have the temperament to invest 100 per cent in stocks and ride the ups and downs, without those wild swings luring them into behaviour that damages their returns over time,” […]
The home-ownership lobby is strong. “Why throw your money away paying rent?” “You’re only making your landlord wealthy.” So say friends, family and advisers … and yes, owning has some financial advantages in the long term, but, it’s OK not to own a home. If you’re looking longingly at this crazy expensive real-estate market we […]
Millennial Money is a weekly submission-based series that provides financial advice to millennials in the GTA. Read the full series here. For 33-year-old Ida, this pandemic year has been a complete whirlwind. First she was permanently laid off from her job as a designer, then she survived off CERB, and now she’s receiving $1,800 a […]
It began innocently enough. An old high school friend began posting cryptic messages to Facebook — that something big was about to happen, and that we should look to the skies. Then it started to get stranger and more disturbing: first that Bill Gates was lying about something, then that the pandemic was a hoax. […]
Recently, in these seemingly interminable days of the pandemic, whenever a package has arrived at my doorstep from Amazon, I scurry outside to the porch and whisk it inside, glancing around to make sure the neighbours haven’t seen. I know I shouldn’t be ordering things from Amazon. I know that workers at Amazon’s warehouses are […]
TORONTO – For Jason Kucherawy, dinnertime requires serious organization. The Toronto tour company owner will try anything, his wife mostly sticks with a vegetarian diet but will eat chicken and their kids’ tastes are anyone’s guess. “I always have a backup plan: a pot of macaroni and cheese on the stove,” said Kucherawy. But before […]