Register Education Savings Plans Workshop: Saving for Your Child’s Education
Join the Financial Empowerment team as we discuss strategies for saving for education, maximizing the benefits of RESPs, and more.
Join the Financial Empowerment team as we discuss strategies for saving for education, maximizing the benefits of RESPs, and more.
Ever feel the pressure to buy, buy, buy? Join us in this free financial help workshop to unpack this pressure and others we feel because of consumerism.
Feeling lost in all the banking options? Join us to demystify personal banking and gain tools to make informed choices.
In this workshop, participants will learn about account types, service options, and basic investments. This introductory workshop will help demystify personal banking and give participants the tools to make informed choices and reduce banking costs. To join this Zoom event you will need a computer, tablet or phone with internet access. (It is ideal to have...
Explore the good and bad types of credit, when it’s wise to use credit, your rights and responsibilities for using credit, and how to build a good credit score – you’ll even leave understanding why having good credit matters. Along the way, learn to avoid credit debt and how to get out from under debt....
Join us for a free budgeting workshop! Your money is a tool and we want to teach you how to use it! Learn to track and break down your income vs. expenses and needs vs. wants in order to create a realistic budget. We’ll show you how to design a budget around your goals and...
Join us for a free budgeting workshop! Your money is a tool and we want to teach you how to use it! Learn to track and break down your income vs. expenses and needs vs. wants in order to create a realistic budget. We’ll show you how to design a budget around your goals and...
Want to save for your future but unsure of where to begin? We’ll walk you through the types of registered investment vehicles (like RRSPs, TFSAs, RESPs, and RDSPs) and investment options like GICs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and index funds. This free workshop aims to show you how to navigate the benefits, risks, and fees...
Join Financial Empowerment to learn all about the best way to make the most of your money: budgeting.
We constantly hear messages that tell us that buying more things will make us happier. However, our culture's insatiable appetite for MORE STUFF usually has the opposite effect. This cycle of buying more to feel happier and feeling unhappy with what we have because we think we need more is especially dangerous when we're spending...
Navigating money as a couple can be tricky – it’s one of the top three things couples argue about. Given that we all have different histories with and beliefs about money, this struggle makes sense. In this workshop, we invite you to explore your personal relationship to money and introduce communication strategies for talking about...
Dealing with the pressures of the holidays can be overwhelming! Join us for this free workshop on creating a realistic holiday budget and strategies for keeping the cost of giving within your means.
