Payback is not a personal finance how-to. Not even close. Instead, it’s an exploration of the concept of debt and its place in our world

I first started using a credit card because my financial advisor (Papa Lee) told me I needed to build up my credit history and earn points. So off I went

Yup. I’m the crazy person who willingly decided to go shopping on Black Friday when the Eaton Centre opened. Here’s what happened

November 25th is Black Friday. The day after American Thanksgiving. The unofficial start of Christmas commerce chaos

The Canadian Personal Finance Conference (CPFC). We went. We learned. We liked. Here are some of our favourite moments 

We’re back this week with another book in our personal finance book review series! Maureen Genore reviews a well-loved personal finance classic

My personal finance journey started with this one fateful budget review in August 2015. I sat down to review my “budget”, but as usual, it was less a review of my real-life spending and more of me daydreaming about how I could spend my monthly money.

Winter tires get a lot of bad press. Last winter, we shared this article on Facebook and it became one of our most popular pieces of the year. People had lots of feelings. Negative feelings

Update: This review was edited on March 23, 2020, to reflect the changes made to the BMO CashBack Mastercard's welcome offer.

I get it: you don’t want to read your insurance policies. Nobody does. Given the choice of reading that great new novel you ordered off of Amazon or your super-dry insurance policy, no one chooses the latter.