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How to Prepare for Maternity/Parental Leave Part 4: CCB & Canadian Childcare Subsidies and Grants
This is the part 4 of a 4 part series that you can read on your own or attend an Online 1 hour Workshop with similar information. Email...
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 21, 20243 min read
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How to Prepare for Maternity/Parental Leave Part 3: RESP Planning
This is part 3 of a 4 part series that you can read on your own or attend an Online 1 hour Workshop with similar information. Email...
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 21, 20244 min read
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How to Prepare for Maternity/Parental Leave Part 1
It's been a while since I went on maternity leave and things have changed a lot since then. I can honestly tell you that for the most...
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 21, 20245 min read
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How Far Does MyDoh Go?
**This blogpost is not sponsored by RBC or MyDoh. This is my personal opinion and review of the fintech app.** I would have started...
Ruthy Siemens
May 29, 20236 min read
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4 Tips for Beginner Investors
Whether you are deciding to become a DIY investor or deciding to go with a financial advisor, please do your research first! I'm not...
Ruthy Siemens
Aug 2, 20224 min read
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7 Ways Canadians Can Thrive during Rising inflation!
Food, gas, housing and everything else are going up in price, what do we do!? Recent stats calculate that inflation is now up to 5%! A...
Ruthy Siemens
Apr 6, 20225 min read
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How Do RESPs Get Paid Out?
Registered Education Savings Plans: What are they? How do they work? First, check out 4 Steps to Start your RESP! Some of the concerns...
Ruthy Siemens
Mar 1, 20226 min read
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How to Pay Less Taxes and Get a Bigger Tax Refund
Everyone hates taxes. However taxes are the way that our government is able to provide free healthcare, free education and for all the...
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 21, 20227 min read
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4 Steps to Start Your RESP!
https://www.financialresuscitationwithruthy.com/post/how-do-resps-get-paid-outA couple months ago, I was asked how much was I setting...
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 1, 20226 min read
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Free Money for Canadian Families
Did you know that there is new free money for families coming in 2022? Yes! What is it? Let's start with the Free Money that we already...
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 1, 20224 min read
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What are Investment Fees Costing you?
Who loves fees? I think we can all agree that paying fees is right up there with getting a tooth pulled...at least in my opinion. There...
Ruthy Siemens
Jan 17, 20225 min read
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What You Need to Know about Your Canadian Defined Benefit Pension!
What do you know about your pension? Last November during Financial Literacy month, I set about trying to sit down and finally learn...
Ruthy Siemens
Dec 15, 20215 min read
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High Interest Savings Accounts vs Traditional Savings accounts
What's the difference between a Savings Account and a High Interest Savings Account? Sounds obvious, right?! A traditional savings...
Ruthy Siemens
Dec 8, 20213 min read
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Steps to DIY Investing
Well we took the leap of DIY investing mid-January and it's been an interesting journey so far.
Now, I know why my dad always said, "I don't
Ruthy Siemens
Mar 30, 20215 min read
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How to Invest Your TFSA & RRSP
Don't make the same mistake that I did of having an RRSP for years that I was diligently adding money to, but it was never invested in anyth
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 8, 20212 min read
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RRSP & TFSA Guidelines and How Nurses Can Reduce their Taxes!
I'm a bit of a weirdo and actually look forward to tax season because I always get a refund which I think is partly due to my RRSP contribut
Ruthy Siemens
Feb 1, 20215 min read
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8 Reasons Why Whole Life Insurance may not be what you need
What are the different kinds of Life Insurance available in Canada? Life insurance is kinda sorta boring and confusing but very important...
Ruthy Siemens
Jan 28, 20216 min read
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7 Steps to Prevent Student Loans
Today I'm proposing something different. What if we didn’t have to deal with student loan debt because we avoided it like the plague or lik
Ruthy Siemens
Sep 14, 20206 min read
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