BNN: Canada has bigger deficit, sees surplus in 2015-16

Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Friday, December 17, 2010
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2010/10/12/Canada-has-bigger-deficit-sees-surplus-in-2015-16.aspx
Reuters | October 12, 2010

Canada's federal budget deficit for the 2009-10 fiscal year totaled $55.6 billion, or 3.6 percent of gross domestic product, exceeding expectations due to special payments to two major provinces, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Tuesday.

Ottawa had forecast a budget shortfall of $53.8 billion, or 3.5 percent of gross domestic product, as it poured cash into inf...


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CBC: Feel better - get a financial plan

Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Friday, November 26, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Money/cab1615.html
Talbot Boggs, The Canadian Press - October 4, 2010

It's one of those feel-good stories, literally.

If you want to feel better about the future, you should get a financial plan.

That's the main message from a recent study conducted by The Strategic Counsel for the Financial Planning Standards Council. The first phase of the five-...


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