Category: Opinion
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How our Metabolism changes as we age
When I was in my early 20s, I thought I had AIDS. My paranoia forced me to take two AIDS tests and fortunately, the results came back negative. I thought I had AIDS because I wasn’t able to gain any weight. I used to eat huge meals six times per day, I used to lift…
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As people get older and fatter the health care sector is a great invesment
If there is one thing I know for sure, is that we all get sick at one moment of the other. With the rich world becoming older, the increase of obsity, diabetis, heart disease, and even mental health, the Health Care sector will be a sector that will always be in high demand. Sickness is…
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Your portfolio should be 100% stocks, even in retirement
It drives me crazy. Target date funds and the conventional wisdom that an investor has to reduce his stake in stocks and increase the allocation of bonds, as the investor ages. First of all, it’s dumb to talk in terms of percentages instead of absolute amounts. 2% on $100,000 is a lot different than 2%…
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Higher inflation is an opportunity to reset our lives
in OpinionInflation is more noise over substance. Bank of Canada’s target range has been 1 per and it’s now 3 per cent. It’s far from being boogieman the press has made it out to be. In fact, this inflation outcry should give us an opportunity to reset many or of our life choices, choices we should…
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I finally became a Canadian citizen
in OpinionComing to Canada It’s been 24 years since I came to Canada. I arrive in February 1998 and finally this week, February 28, 2022, I became a Canadian citizen. My plane landed at the Montreal International Airport. It was a cold day, colder than anything I have ever experienced in my whole life. Until then,…
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It’s a triumph for women’s rights in Colombia. Abortion is no longer a crime
in OpinionThis is a historic triumph for humanity and women’s rights in Colombia. It’s an act of decolonization and a loosening of the grip on the Catholic church on women’s vagina. This comes in the heals of Argentine and Mexico making similar moves. Having an abortion is no longer a crime under Colombian law, the country’s…