Posted by Sheryl on May 17, 2013 in Consumer savings, Portfolio/Saskatchewan Pension Plan |
16 May, 2013
By Sheryl Smolkin
SHUTTERSTOCK
Do you buy new clothes every season and then realize you already have a similar item in your closet? When you are trying a new recipe, do you check the cupboard first to see if you have all the necessary ingredients or do you automatically add them to your shopping list? Are toys your children have outgrown still cluttering up the house?
Cleaning closets and purging are no fun. But every now and then you can no longer avoid the inevitable. And...
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Posted by Sheryl on May 17, 2013 in HR Issues, Legal, Portfolio Toronto Star |
Liam Richards / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Transgender rights: Supporters rally outside of a bridal boutique in Saskatoon. Rohit Singh, not pictured, a transgender bride who was not allowed to try on wedding gowns. (May 4, 2013)
By: Sheryl Smolkin At Work, Published on Wed May 15 2013
A male labourer at a Mississauga paper box factory who was fired while undergoing sex change therapy has been awarded $22,000 and eight months pay by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
The case of...
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Posted by Sheryl on May 13, 2013 in Consumer savings, Portfolio/Saskatchewan Pension Plan |
13 May, 2013
By Sheryl Smolkin
The May 4th article Not your grandfather’s financial website: The new, fresh face of money sites in the Financial Post by Melissa Leong highlights a new wave of bloggers and personal finance gurus who are shaking up how young people get information about money.
She says some of the sites get millions of hits on any given month, embracing readers’ voyeuristic penchant for personal stories and catering to their anxiety about money and hunger for...
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Posted by Sheryl on May 13, 2013 in HR Issues, Legal, Portfolio Toronto Star |
Nick Kozak / For the Toronto Star
Gavin Birer owns a company called Legalwise which provides outsourced legal services.
By: Sheryl Smolkin At Work, Published on Mon May 13 2013
When you think of jobs that move offshore to countries with lower labour costs, information technology, call centres and manufacturing come to mind. But legal work?
Some Toronto law firms and in-house lawyers are also delegating high volume, repetitive work to lawyers in countries like India and the...
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Posted by Sheryl on May 10, 2013 in Consumer savings, Portfolio/Saskatchewan Pension Plan |
9 May 2013
By Sheryl Smolkin
SHUTTERSTOCK
Kids grow up and many eventually have the means to shower their Moms with expensive dinners, jewelry and other luxury items.
But if you ask most mothers which Mothers Day gift they treasure the most, they will probably tell you it is the first handmade card thier child brought home from nursery school, or the breakfast in bed delivered at sunrise that she made all by herself.
Here are some ideas for Mother’s Day gifts, in no particular order, that...
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