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Free Course: Thinking About Self-Employment

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Canadian Survey on Working Conditions, 2024-2025

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Financial Wellbeing: Take action now to improve financial wellbeing for all

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Planning to Receive Your Compensation Money

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From Program to Policy: Auto-Tax Filing and Auto-Enrolment of Benefits

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Stand Against Scams

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Financial Empowerment Toolkit: Your Guide to Money Confidence

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Boosting incomes through tax filing: Resources

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Increasing Indigenous Benefit Take-Up in Canada: 2018 Federal Budget Submission

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Helping people access to benefits: Millions of unclaimed federal dollars are available

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Financial Well-being Under Pressure: Addressing Canada’s Institutional Barriers

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Navigating Tech Abuse: Conversation Guides for Rural, Remote, Northern and Indigenous Shelter Workers

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Wi-Fi Hotspot Scam

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Delivering on the right to education in a punishing system

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Learning from our mistakes: Ontario needs more than an employment strategy to address rising poverty

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Mariposa: Financial & Debt Management Agent

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Empowering Survivors Through Digital Safety

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Spotlight on Canadians’ use of financial advice

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Closing the Divide: Solutions for Canada’s Financial Help Gap

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No progress, no plan: What the latest poverty numbers tell us

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We can do better: it is not a safety net if the holes are this big – the 2025 report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

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OECD Economic Survey: Canada 2025

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3 Reasons Why You Should Take a Look at Your Investment Fees

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Insurance

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Red-Flagging Financial Fraud: Protect Yourself Against Financial Scams

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2025 Changemaker Wellbeing Index

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The 2030 Project: Ending Poverty in Canada

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Financial Literacy Month

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Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires

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Socioeconomic outcomes of transgender and non-binary people in Canada

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Canadians’ financial well‑being

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Financial and budgeting tools

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Buy Now Pay Later: Just Asking with Saroja Coelho

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How your tax notice of assessment can help you

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Diversification and Asset Mix

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Know Your Rights

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Saving plans RRSP, TFSA, FHSA, RESP, VRSP, RDSP

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Braiding Mind, Body, and Spirit: A Financial Wellness Bundle

English

Introduction

Introduction

Section One: Preparing the Mind

Section One: Preparing the Mind

Activity 1: Colouring My Dreams

Activity 2: My Goals

Activity 3: Planning My Settlement Pie

Activity 4: Monthly Yearly Seasonal Spending

Adding to my Bundle

Section Two: Protecting yourself

Section Two: Protecting Yourself

Adding to my Bundle

Section Three: Supporting Health and Well-being

Section Three: Supporting Health and Well-being

Activity 5: My Financial Wellness Journal

Activity 6: My Money is Medicine

Activity 7: Picturing my Money Goals

Activity 8: My Future Investment Plan

Activity 9: Sharing my Dreams with Friends and Family

Activity 10: Creating my Money Medicine Bundle

Adding to my Bundle

Additional Resources

Additional Resources

French

Introduction

Introduction

Tresser la première mèche : préparer l’esprit

Tresser la première mèche : préparer l’esprit

Activité 1 : Colorier ses rêves

Activité 2 : Mes objectifs

Activité 3 : Planifier votre diagramme circulaire de fonds de règlement

Activité 4 : Plan de dépenses mensuel

Ajout a ma trousse

Tresser la seconde mèche : se protéger

Tresser la seconde mèche : se protéger

Ajout a ma trousse

Tresser la troisième mèche : favoriser la santé et le bien-être

Tresser la troisième mèche : favoriser la santé et le bien-être

Activité 5 : Mon journal de bien-être financier

Activité 6 : Mon argent est une médecine

Activité 7 : Visualisez vos objectifs financiers

Activité 8 : Mon plan d’investissement

Activité 9 : Partagez vos rêves avec votre famille et vos amis

Activité 10 : Créez votre trousse de médecine financière

Ajout a ma trousse

Ressources supplémentaires

Ressources supplémentaires

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Investing Charts

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Reviewing your personal finances

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Report on Canadians’ Financial Resilience and Financial Well-Being

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From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Innovation in Credit Risk Assessment for Immigrants in Canada

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Taxes and benefits

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How to report scams in Canada

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People First: A portrait of Canada’s nonprofit workforce – data and trends report

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Seniors’ poverty in Canada: Why it exists and why it doesn’t have to

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How to spot tax season scams

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Home Improvement Scams

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What is an emergency fund?

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Policy Brief: Bold action on supportive housing

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Thriving in the City: A Framework for Income and Health in Retirement

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State of Black Economics Report

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Retiring on a low income

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Theft of personal information

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Measuring discrimination in rental housing across Canada

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Exiting homelessness: Results from the 2022 Canadian Housing Survey

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Employed persons with disabilities or long-term conditions- infographic

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Health indicators for First Nations adults living off reserve, Métis and Inuit adults, 2015 to 2022

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Quality of life indicators from the Canadian Social Survey, fourth quarter 2024

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Invest smart: Taxes and Investing

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Benefits of having a financial plan

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Glossary of Common Investing Terms

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What is DIY investing and how does it work?

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Provincial spending on housing and homelessness in Ontario

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CASE STUDY | Niagara Region’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: Working Together to Prevent and End Poverty and Increase Well-Being in Niagara

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Taxes and benefits for Indigenous Peoples

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Taxology podcast

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Spotting AI-generated scams: practical tips to protect yourself

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A look at income sources of racialized individuals 65 years and over in Canada, 2020

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Measuring unmet housing need and housing instability in households with roommates and extended family

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Deep income poverty: Exploring the dimensions of poverty in Canada

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The National Right to Housing Network Annual Report, 2024

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Impacts of rising prices on the well-being of Indigenous people, 2024

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Black History Month 2025 – digital toolkit

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Money Smarts: My Financial Journey

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Consumer research: Financial Planners and Financial Advisors

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How to resolve a Financial Planner / Financial Advisor complaint

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Property and Other Insurance

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Life & health insurance

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Promoting Welcoming Communities: A Toolkit for Communities and Those Who Support Them

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Barriers to moving: Potential implications for the life satisfaction of young families

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Financial literacy 101

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FCAC Report: The financial well-being of Canadian homeowners with mortgages

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Understanding mortgages

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The Embedded Financial Coaching Project: Insights Report

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Canadians’ Financial Well-being: Summary of FCAC survey findings

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Low-cost and no-cost accounts

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Empowering Futures: Boosting Girls’ Financial Confidence Through Gamified Learning – A Gender Equality Research Brief

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From Clicks to Confidence: Using Quick Online Interventions to Increase Young Women’s Financial Confidence and Behaviours – A Gender Equality Research Brief

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Infographic: the Benefits of tax filing

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Money and Youth: A guide to financial literacy

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Unclaimed Benefits: Too many missing out on Old Age Security in Toronto

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Loan and Trust

people shaking hand after signing a document

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man and women looking at a computer

Pensions

man and women looking at a computer

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Credit Unions and Deposit Insurance

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Mortgage Brokering

family hugging outside their new house

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Auto insurance

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Money Matters Workbooks

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2024 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada

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Dollars Seen Differently Podcast

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Benefits on the street: Increasing access to benefits for street-involved individuals and families

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Workforce Toolkit: A toolkit for embedding financial coaching into workforce programs

English

The Embedded Financial Coaching Pilot

The resources below introduce the Embedded Financial Coaching model in the context of workforce programs.  They are designed to generate the interest of financial empowerment service providers and workforce programs about the promising possibilities of this model.  Future phases of the toolkit will assist with initial planning and implementation stages for embedding FE into workforce programs. 

  • The Embedded Financial Coaching Primer gives a quick overview of the “what” and “why” of embedding financial empowerment into workforce programs 
  • The Integrating Financial Coaching into Employment Services Landscape Scan summarizes the literature and promising practices from the USA.   
  • The Literature review summarizes the promising practices to improve participant retention for multi session interventions that lead to deeper financial wellbeing outcomes (for detailed summaries refer to additional resources section). 

Learn more about embedding financial empowerment

Canadian Publications 

Prosperity Gateways: Cities for financial empowerment – Building the case outlines evidence for embedding FE. 

US Publications 

The US Department of Health and Human Services through its Office of Planning. Research and Evaluation supported MEF Associates and the Urban Institute to conduct a large-scale research project of the over 15 years of integrating financial capability and workforce programming.  As part of this research project two research reports are highly relevant for attempts to replicate integrated service delivery in the Canadian context.  The first report is a literature synthesis on Integrating Financial Capability into Employment Services. The second report is a summary of the approaches, motivations and types of services and participant perspectives on integrated services Understanding Financial Capability Interventions within Employment-Related Contexts for Adults with Low Incomes. 

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation runs over 100 Financial Opportunity Centres across the USA.  These FOCs deliver integrated financial empowerment and employment programs.  A 2016 study evaluated the impacts of integrated service delivery…  more recently LISC developed an Implementation Academy.

In 2015 The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Prosperity Now developed Building Financial Capability: A Planning Guide for Integrated Services. This resource is technical guide for community-based organizations that serve low- and moderate-income individuals.  

Additional resources: Literature summaries

Citi Financial Capability Demonstration Project

Matched Savings Account Program Study

Financial Coaching Impact Evaluation

Pathfinders Re-Entry Mentoring Program

CFPB Financial Coaching Strategy

GreenPath Virtual Financial Coaching Pilot

Understanding Family Engagement in Home Visiting: Literature Synthesis

Study on Efficacy of Health Coaching and an Electronic Health Management Program

French

Financier intégré dans le contexte des programmes pour la main-d’œuvre

Les ressources ci-dessous présentent le modèle d’accompagnement financier intégré dans le contexte des programmes pour la main-d’œuvre. Elles ont été créées dans le cadre du projet pilote d’accompagnement financier intégré et sont destinées à susciter l’intérêt des fournisseurs de services d’autonomisation financière et des programmes d’emploi quant aux possibilités prometteuses du modèle. Les prochaines étapes de la trousse à outils contribueront à la planification initiale et aux étapes de mise en œuvre de l’intégration de l’éducation financière dans les programmes de formation de la main-d’œuvre.

  • Le guide d’introduction à l’accompagnement financier intégré donne un aperçu du « quoi » et du « pourquoi » de l’intégration de l’autonomisation financière dans les programmes destinés à la main-d’œuvre.
  • L’analyse documentaire sur l’intégration de l’accompagnement financier dans les programmes destinés à la main-d’œuvre présente une synthèse de la littérature et des pratiques prometteuses des États-Unis, ainsi que des connaissances acquises par les partenaires du projet d’accompagnement financier intégré.
  • La revue de la littérature résume les pratiques prometteuses pour améliorer la rétention des participants dans le cadre d’interventions en plusieurs séances qui mènent à des résultats plus profonds en matière de bien-être financier.

En savoir plus sur l’intégration de l’autonomisation financière

Publications canadiennes

Sur la voie de la prospérité : les villes pour l’autonomisation financière (en anglais seulement)— Le dossier présente des données relatives à l’intégration de l’éducation financière.

Publications américaines

Le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux des États-Unis, par l’intermédiaire de son bureau de la planification, de la recherche et de l’évaluation a soutenu le cabinet MEF Associates et l’Urban Institute pour mener un projet de recherche de grande envergure (en anglais seulement) portant sur l’intégration des programmes de capacité financière et de main-d’œuvre sur une période de plus de 15 ans. Dans le cadre de ce projet de recherche, deux rapports de recherche sont très pertinents pour les tentatives de reproduction de la prestation de services intégrés dans le contexte canadien. Le premier rapport est une synthèse de la littérature sur l’intégration de la capacité financière dans les services d’emploi (en anglais seulement). Le deuxième rapport est un résumé des approches, des motivations et des types de services, ainsi que des points de vue des participants sur les services intégrés : Comprendre les interventions en matière de capacité financière dans les contextes liés à l’emploi pour les adultes ayant de faibles revenus (en anglais seulement).

La Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) gère plus de 120 centres de ressources financières (Financial Opportunity CenterMD — FOC) à travers les États-Unis. Ces centres FOC proposent des programmes intégrés d’autonomisation financière et d’emploi depuis 2005. Une étude de 2016 a évalué les impacts de la prestation de services intégrés… La LISC a mis en œuvre un centre de ressources en ligne (en anglais seulement) pour les praticiens, qui comprend des ressources sur la prestation de services, l’accompagnement financier, leur système de gestion des clients Salesforce, ainsi que sur les opérations et l’administration. Récemment, la LISC a publié un résumé des résultats (en anglais seulement) à propos d’une académie de mise en œuvre visant à former les organismes de main-d’œuvre sur la façon d’intégrer l’accompagnement financier individuel dans leur modèle de prestation de services existant.

En 2015, l’Administration for Children and Families, une division du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux des États-Unis, en collaboration avec Prosperity Now, a élaboré le Guide de planification pour les services intégrés : Renforcer la capacité financière. Cette ressource est un guide technique destiné aux organismes communautaires qui s’occupent des personnes ayant de faibles revenus ou des revenus modestes.

Ressources Additionnelles : La synthèse de la littérature

Projet de démonstration de la capacité financière de Citi

L’étude portant sur le programme de compte d’épargne jumelée

L’évaluation portant sur les répercussions de l’accompagnement financier

Programme de mentorat pour la réintégration de l’organisme Pathfinders

La stratégie d’accompagnement financier de L’Office de la protection du consommateur en matière financière.

Projet pilote d’accompagnement financier virtuel de GreenPath

La synthèse de la littérature sur l’engagement des familles dans les programmes de visites a domicile

L’efficacité de l’accompagnement en matière de sante et d’un programme de gestion en cyber santé

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The Canada Disability Benefit

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The CRA’s Indigenous Strategy 2024-2027

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Investor alerts

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Investor education videos

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Safe Investing for Seniors

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5 conversation starters to build better money habits

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What the food?! Ep. 8 – Affording Food in Today’s Economy

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Who’s hungry 2024

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Technology-Facilitated Economic Abuse: Fact Sheet

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A time for urgent action: The 2024 Repot of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

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Getting your money back: an investor’s guide to navigating Canada’s complaint system

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Credit Unions and Deposit Insurance

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Loan and Trust

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Understanding do-it-yourself (DIY) account holders

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Mobilizing on the Right to Housing for Women & Gender-Diverse People in Canada: A Community Organizer’s Guide

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New data on household food insecurity in 2023

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Poverty and food insecurity where you live

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How RESPs work

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Artificial intelligence and investor behaviour

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Financial Planners and Financial Advisors

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Romance and investment scams

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Finfluencers and investing

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Guiding Your Journey: A Toolkit for Lump Sum Payments

Tools and resources

Financial Education

  • Dollars and sense, AFOA Canada – A suite of financial literacy workshops for Indigenous youth
  • Managing your money, Prosper Canada – A series of seven worksheets to help Indigenous individuals and families to set and work towards money goals. Available in English, French, Plains Cree and Ojibwe here: Managing your Money: Tools and tips to help you meet your goals
  • Financial Literacy for Indigenous Peoples, RBC – With a focus on lump sum payments this course is intended to provide knowledge about money and banking for all Indigenous Peoples .
  • Financial health & wealth, NWAC – A toolkit that includes information and worksheets on financial health topics. 
  • Money matters, ABC Money matters – Workbooks that are tailored for Indigenous Peoples on spending plans, banking basics, borrowing money, ways to save and smart shopping. 
  • Money stories, SEED – A customized money management training program for Indigenous youth. 
  • Financial literacy workshops for Canadians living in the North, CMHC – This workshop series will cover several areas related to purchase of a house from mortgages, to pre-approvals and home buying programs. 
  • Money minutes, First Nations Bank of Canada – One-minute-long recordings one a range of financial topics from budgeting to creating a rainy-day fund.  
  • Navigating Financial Empowerment for First Nations, First Nations Market Housing Fund – This article includes links to tools and resources to plan one’s financial journey
  • Financial Capability Workbooks, NWAC
    • Goal setting, mindset and savings
    • Income, expenses and budget
    • Banking and credit
  • Credit podcast, AFOA Canada – A Money Smarts podcast on how to build and keep credit in good shape 
  • Writing your own will: A guide for First Nations People Living on Reserve – A resource from AFOA British Columbia.
  • Retirement planning, First Nations Development Institute – a tip sheet on planning for retirement for First Nations in the United States. 
  • Building Native Communities; Financial Skills for families, Oweesta – A financial skills curriculum that will help people make informed decisions for themselves, their family and their community. 
  • Financial Connect: Indigenous Workbook, Bissell Centre – a basic financial services and identification (ID) for Indigenous peoples workbook 
  • Retirement Planning, First Nations Development Institute – an introductory guide to retirement planning
  • Building Native Communities; Financial Skills for families, Oweesta – A curriculum designed to help make informed financial decisions
  • A Guide to Financial Literacy: Money and Youth , CFEE – A guide for youth, parents and teachers to learn about different aspects of financial education. 
  • Indigenous Business Development Toolkit, Government of Ontario – This toolkit provides business development supports, tools and information to help you start and operate a successful business. 
  • Back to the basics of Personal Budgeting, CandoEDO – This webinar emphasizes how developing a successful Personal Finance Plan can help self, loved ones and communities reach financial capability. 
  • Webinar series on Financial Literacy, NADF
    • Budgeting
    • Managing your cost of living and spending
    • Credit and debt management
    • Savings
    • Financial Planning

Tools and resources for lump sum payments

*Not Indigenous specific resource

  • It’s my life – how to build your financial wellness future, AFOA Canada – Narrated PowerPoints focusing on identifying goals, developing a financial wellness plan, getting support and consumer protection
  • It’s my life – am I prepared?, AFOA Canada – These workbooks help you picture your life in 2 years how would you like to spend your money. 
  • Sixties Scoop, It’s my life “How to build your financial wellness future!”, AFOA Canada – Understanding Sudden Wealth and planning for it.
  • Receiving a large amount of money from the government, FCAC – This resource includes links to tools on money goals, budgeting, paying debt, savings goals…)*
  • What to do when you get money from the government, FCAC – Options include cashing a cheque (and information around applicable fee), direct deposit and links to tools*
  • Managing a financial windfall, CIRO – With a focus on consumer protection, this resource shares ways to avoid frauds and scams but also ways to identify personal financial goals* 
  • You’ve just received a big amount of money. Now what?, FCAC – A cheat sheet of what to consider when receiving a large amount of money.*
  • How to manage Sudden Wealth in 7 steps, Smart Asset (US) – Advice and further reading on managing a large financial windfall*
  • How to manage sudden wealth, Wealth Management Canada- In this article both the emotional and financial aspects of receiving a lump sum payment are discussed*
  • How to deal with Sudden Wealth Syndrome and Manage Newfound Riches, Money Crashers – This article elaborates on what sudden wealth syndrome is and how to deal with it. 
  • Managing large amounts of sudden wealth, Investopedia (US) – Understanding the emotional toll of receiving an unexpected sum of money and how to plan for it with caution.  
  • Indigenous Women in Business- A best practices approach,  Aboriginal Business and Community Development Centre – Best practices to assist females entrepreneurs

Tools and resources for consumer protection

*Not Indigenous specific resource

Frauds and scams:

  • Protecting your money, RBC – This module from RBC’s Financial Literacy for Indigenous Peoples course covers banks and financial institutions, protecting oneself from frauds…

Elder financial abuse:

  • What every older Canadian should know about financial abuse, Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors Forum – This page includes information on what financial abuse is, includes some examples and tips and safeguards you may implement to protect a loved one.*
  • The many faces of financial elder abuse, Ontario Securities Commission – Learn how to identify and prevent financial elder abuse, plus where to go for help if you or an older person you know is being financially exploited.*
  • Financial abuse can be elder abuse, First Nations Health Authority article outlines what elder financial abuse is, how you can help an Elder who is financially abused and where to get more information.  

Research, reports and guides

  • Indigenous Wealth Guide, Native Governance Center (US) – Understanding Indigenous wealth will help determine how to build Indigenous wealth.  
  • How Indigenous communities are regaining economic independence, CPA Canada – An increase in financial knowledge is laying the groundwork for greater autonomy.  
  • Indigenous Sovereign Wealth: Strengthening Indigenous Trust Knowledge, National Aboriginal Trust Officers Association – This report summarizes the results of Phase 1 of the Indigenous Sovereign Wealth Project and identifies the current issues with trusts.  
  • Sudden wealth – A consumer guide, Financial vulnerability task force (UK) – This guide helps readers understand the unique opportunities and challenges they could face from the acquisition of sudden wealth, how to safeguard it and what to look out for when you seek financial advice.  
  • Banking sector services for Indigenous Peoples, CBA – Banks in Canada recognize their responsibility to foster a more inclusive and sustainable future for Indigenous individuals, businesses and communities. This webpage outlines the services Canadian banks offer Indigenous Peoples.  
  • Learning by Doing: Financial Education for Native American Youth Receiving Large Lump-Sum Payouts, First Nations Development Institute –  This report outlines  experiential workshops offered to Shoshone youth in the US and the resultant evaluation
  • Promoting Financial Empowerment Through Building Native Communities- Financial Skills for families, Oweesta – This report agues that financial education curricula, uniquely adapted to the culture and needs of the intended audience is the cornerstone of effective financial education. 
  • The Shared Path: First Nations financial wellness, Prosper Canada & AFOA Canada – This report defines financial wellness in the context of First Nations Peoples and communities, reviews why it matters, provides a conceptual framework to help clarify the determinants of financial wellness, and identifies barriers, needs, best practices and principles for building the financial wellness of Indigenous individuals, families, and communities together.
  • Learning by doing: Financial Education for Native American Youth receiving large Lump-Sum payments, First Nations Development Institute – A process and evaluation report for youth managing lump sum payments

Ressources et outils

Éducation financière

  • Gérer votre argent: Outils et conseils pour vous aider à atteindre vos objectifs, Prospérité Canada – Une série de sept feuilles de travail pour aider les personnes et les familles autochtones à se fixer des objectifs financiers et à les atteindre. Disponible en anglais, français, cri des plaines et ojibwé.
  • Littératie financière pour Autochtones, RBC – Le cours « Littératie financière pour Autochtones RBC » vous procurera les connaissances nécessaires pour prendre des décisions éclairées et pour atteindre un bien-être financier durable.
  • Ateliers sur la littératie financière pour les Canadiens vivant dans le Nord, SCHL – Cette série d’ateliers couvrira plusieurs sujets liés à l’achat d’une maison, des hypothèques aux préapprobations en passant par les programmes d’achat de maisons.
  • S’y retrouver dans les ressources pour l’autonomisation financière des Premières Nations, Fonds pour les habitations du marché des premières nations – Cet article contient des liens vers des outils et des ressources permettant de planifier son parcours financier.
  • Boîte à outils pour le développement d’entreprises autochtones, les outils et l’information pour vous aider à démarrer et exploiter une entreprise rentable.

Outils et ressources pour les paiements forfaitaires

*Ressource qui n’est pas spécifiquement destinée aux Autochtones.

  • Recevoir une grosse somme d’argent , ACFC – Cette ressource comprend des liens vers des outils sur les objectifs financiers, le budget, le remboursement des dettes, les objectifs d’épargne…*
  • Que faire lorsque vous recevez de l’argent du gouvernement., ACFC – Les options comprennent l’encaissement d’un chèque (et des renseignements sur les droits applicables), le dépôt direct et des liens vers des outils.*
  • Gérer une rentrée d’argent providentielle, OCRI – Cette ressource, qui met l’accent sur la protection des consommateurs, propose des moyens d’éviter les fraudes et les escroqueries, mais aussi d’identifier les objectifs financiers personnels.*

Outils et ressources pour la protection des consommateurs.

*Ressource qui n’est pas spécifiquement destinée aux Autochtones.

Les fraudes et arnaques:

  • Comment gérer votre argent avec assurance, RBC – Ce module du cours Littératie financière pour Autochtones de RBC porte sur les banques et les institutions financières, la protection contre les fraudes…

Exploitation financière des personnes âgées :

  • Ce que tous les Canadiens âgés devraient savoir au sujet de l’exploitation financière, Forum fédéral, provincial et territorial des ministres responsables des aînés – Cette page contient des renseignements sur ce qu’est l’exploitation financière, des exemples et des conseils, ainsi que des mesures de protection que vous pouvez mettre en œuvre pour protéger un proche.*
  • Les nombreuses facettes de l’exploitation financière envers les personnes âgées, La Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario – Apprenez comment identifier et prévenir l’exploitation financière des personnes âgées, et où trouver de l’aide si vous ou une personne âgée que vous connaissez êtes victimes d’exploitation financière.*

Recherche, rapports et guides

  • Des communautés autochtones regagnent leur indépendance économique, CPA Canada – De meilleures connaissances financières jettent les bases d’une plus grande autonomie.
  • Services du secteur bancaire aux communautés autochtones, ABC Bancaire – Les banques du Canada reconnaissent leur responsabilité dans la promotion d’un avenir plus inclusif et durable pour les personnes, les entreprises et les communautés autochtones. Cette page Web présente les services que les banques canadiennes offrent aux Autochtones.  

     

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Developing an automatic enrolment model for the Canada Learning Bond

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Six key takeaways from Welfare in Canada, 2023

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Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

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Trends and patterns in Canadians’ use of digital banking and technologies

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Housing costs on your mind?

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Advocacy toolkit

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Investor’s guide: cryptocurrencies

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Cybersecurity and Fraud

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Long-haul scammers: Fraudsters who invest time to take your money

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How to manage financial stress and avoid burnout

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What is herd behaviour?

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Online Course: Introduction to behavioral insights for the social sector

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Refund to Savings Canada Pilot Study Evaluation

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Budget Calculator

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Paying your mortgage when experiencing financial difficulties

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Welfare in Canada, 2023

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Tools and calculators

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Advocacy toolkit: Preventing Canada Disability Benefit clawbacks

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Financial abuse – it’s not your fault

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Fraud prevention toolkit for older adults

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National standards for emergency shelters across Canada

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Café Scientifique: Driving multi-level action to improve financial wellbeing

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Investing basics

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Annual information about your investment fees

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Fee calculator

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Insights summary: Building financial wellness in First Nations

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Closing the gap in tax filing and improving benefit access for under-served populations

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Understanding disruptions in tax filing

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2024 Investor Survey

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Demystifying the Disability Tax Credit

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Social Assistance Summaries

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The Benefits of Working with a CIRO Member

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Where We Fit in the Canadian Securities Regulatory Framework

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How CIRO Protects Investors

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Seeking Financial Compensation?

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Complaints Outside of CIRO’s Jurisdiction

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Choosing a financial institution

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The financialization of purpose-built rental housing

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Impact: The Benefits Wayfinder Tool

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The many faces of financial elder abuse

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Learning resources about First Nations, Inuit and Métis across Canada

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Women and Investing

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How to prepare for a financial emergency

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The Value of Behaviorally-Informed Financial Advice Study

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Trends in online banking and shopping

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Momentum Savings Challenge Evaluation Summary

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Intergenerational housing outcomes in Canada

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How to spot tax season scams

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The Reducing the Impact of Financial Strain (RIFS) project

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Do You Have to File Taxes Every Year in Canada?

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How to Make a Complaint with CIRO

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A Simple Guide to Understanding RRSPs

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Prosper Canada Learning Hub Digest

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Learn about the Risk of Crypto Assets

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Risk of Borrowing to Invest

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Investor Questionnaire

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Understanding Risk

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Investment Fraud

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What to Do If You’re a Victim of Fraud

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How to Protect Yourself Against Fraud and Scams

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Why You Should Consider Appointing a Trusted Contact Person

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3 Things You Should Never Do With Your Investment Advisor

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Avoiding Fraud and Protecting Your Investments

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Understanding Investment Performance / Returns

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Interest Rates and How They Impact Your Finances

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Compound Interest

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Navigating Finances: Paying Down Debt vs. Investing

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Selecting an Advisor

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Know Your Rights as An Investor

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How to Read Your Account Statement and the Things to Focus on

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What to do if your tax return is reviewed or audited

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5 Key Principles of Investing

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Fees and Costs

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Types of Investments and Types of Accounts

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Taxes and benefits for Indigenous Peoples

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Indigenous peoples economic account, 2012 to 2021

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The Indigenous economy is worth $30 billion and climbing. Why aren’t investors getting more involved?

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CRA scam alerts

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Wealth Inequality, Health and Health Equity: A think piece

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Housing Need & Homelessness Amongst Gender-Diverse People in Canada

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Credit comeback: how to rebuild credit

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Insights from the ‘Building Financial Wellness in First Nation Communities’ Project

Resources

Handouts, videos and time stamps

Handout: Summary of report

PDF of PowerPoint

Video

Timestamps: 

5:32 – Agenda

11:47 – Project overview

14:18 – Insights

21:22 – From the partners

49:57 – Questions

 
 

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Saving or investing for short-term goals

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Spring cleaning your investment portfolio

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How to Increase Credit Score: Proven Steps to Success

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Housing in First Nations Communities

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Trends in online banking and shopping

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Microboard resources

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The B.C. pilot project that prevents affordable housing loss

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Deepfakes

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Experiences of Financial Stress and Supports in Caregivers During Pediatric Hospital Admission

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Financial Health Is Health: Addressing Acute and Chronic Financial Stress Across the Care Spectrum

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Fraud Prevention Month

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A Cyber Security Toolkit for Newcomers to Canada

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About Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy

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Evolution of the fraud pitch

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Supporting with access to benefits

Resources

Handouts, videos and time stamps

Handouts

Video

Timestamps

13.24 – Agenda

16.08 – Your role in supporting access to benefits

23.36 – Starting conversations about benefits

36.19 – Navigating the Benefits Wayfinder

58.12 – Personas: Exploring benefits

 
 

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An Introduction to Trauma- and Violence-Informed Approaches in Financial Literacy Education

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Focus groups –Understanding Canadian investors

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Eight common investment scams and how to spot them

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4 signs of investment fraud

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SimpleFile by Phone automated phone service (formerly called File my Return)

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Final Report: Upholding dignity and human rights: the Federal Housing Advocate’s review of homeless encampments

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How should the new Canada Disability Benefit interact with existing disability supports?

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Fraud prevention month 2024

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Canada’s Rental Landscape in 2023 Show Record-Low Vacancies and Affordability Concerns

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Black History Month 2024… by the numbers

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Black History Month 2024- digital toolkit

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Focus: Banks and Consumers

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Community Belonging: A way to end poverty in Canada

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Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre

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Resourcing rights claimants: closing the gap to exercising the national housing strategy act

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Journey to impact: unlocking purpose through social finance

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How to open a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) for yourself or a loved one with a disability

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Canada Disability Savings Program: 2022 Key Statistics

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Retirement Savings Course

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Planifiez votre retraite

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The Gig Economy: What You Need to Know When Filing Taxes For Your Side Hustle

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Dollars and sense: Achieving better financial literacy in 2024

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Women’s Economic Empowerment: A Double-Edged Sword for Gender-Based Violence

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Living for today at the expense of tomorrow

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Online employment and job scams – how to recognize the red flags

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Smart steps for sidestepping the latest QR code tricks

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Data sheet: Breaking the Cycle of Financial Shame A Study By Coast Capital

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Profiles of retirement

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TFSA basics

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How weak rent regulations are failing to provide secure homes for renters in Canada

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Increasing Access to Benefits for Peoples with Disabilities Project: Insights and recommendations

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Seneca College: Report – Online assistance system for tax filing

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Supporting Benefits Access: A blueprint for what is possible

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Canadian crypto survey results for 2023

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A Digital Canadian Dollar: What we heard 2020–23 and what comes next

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Strategies to pay down debt

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The profound drop in Working Poverty in the Toronto Region

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Risks to Canada’s economy remain high as household debt levels continue to grow

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Your guide to housing and mortgage support in Canada

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Investing Academy

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Check up on your financial health

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Building Credit From the Ground Up: A Program for Newcomers to Canada.

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Blueprint for Transformation: the 2023 Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

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Balancing Debt Repayment with Saving for the Future

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Status First Nations People in Canada: A snapshot from the 2021 census

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How volatility affects your investments

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The state of economic abuse in Canada

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Inflation and your household budget

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A case study: Community Volunteer Income Tax Program in 5 Municipalities of Grey Bruce

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Supported tax filing toolkit

Resources

Supported tax filing (STF) model general documents

This section contains resources that describe the supported tax file model and includes sample scripts and documents relevant to both virtual and in-person supported tax filing. These documents may be customized for your own agency.

  • Introduction to the supported tax filing model
  • Client checklist: How to get ready to file your taxes with the STF program
  • Sample client intake form
  • Document and income eligibility check
  • Sample document check form (WoodGreen)
  • Tip sheet for explaining tax filing outcomes to clients
  • Sample exit survey

Resources specific to in-person supported tax filing

This section contains documents that have been tailored for in-person supported tax filing.

  • Script to recruit clients for in-person supported tax filing project
  • Sample disclaimer statement
  • In-person STF Appointment outcome sample form

Resources specific to virtual supported tax filing

This section contains documents that have been tailored for virtual supported tax filing.

  • Script to recruit clients for VSF
  • Virtual self-file overview (Journey map)
  • Email templates (Independent filing method), EBO
  • Sample email: Booking confirmation (two-step method), WoodGreen
  • Virtual STF sample disclaimer statement
  • Virtual STF-Appointment outcomes sample form

Additional resources

This section contains additional resources to support at tax time. Be sure to also review our Tax filing toolkit and Financial Coaching toolkit for other relevant resources.

Sample client profiles (WoodGreen)
Common tax deductions
Common sources of income and their tax slips
Notice of Assessment – how to read it 
Encouraging tax filing at virtual clinics

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How stocks and dividends work

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Ontario Works and Gifts Information Sheet

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RDSP awareness month

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Retirement hub

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Poverty report cards

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Financial Literacy Month 2023

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SeedChange: Impact report 2022

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Unfunded: Black communities overlooked by Canadian Philanthropy

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Social policy implications for a less-cash society

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The barriers we face: Newcomers and the financial markets

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An intelligent Martian asks a question that we can’t answer

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Fund my future

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Canadians’ Financial Well-being: Summary of FCAC survey findings

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Building futures

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Food Security Status of Indigenous Peoples in Canada According to the 4 Pillars of Food Security: A Scoping Review

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Poverty persists among some racialized Canadians from the first generation to the third generation or more

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Bridge to benefits

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How the stock market works

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Welfare in Canada, 2022

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Advocating for change: The housing crisis in Canada

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Highlights from a new study on the lifetime earnings growth of individuals with childhood-onset disabilities

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Market basket measure research paper: Child care expenses

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How to spot sketchy debt advice

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Food insecurity: a problem of inadequate income, not solved by food

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Who’s hungry 2022




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Effect of Canada Child Benefit on Food Insecurity: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis




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By the numbers: Black History month 2023




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Fact sheet: Race and Food insecurity




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Household Food Insecurity in Canada




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Housing First




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About Affordable Housing in Canada




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Financial Literacy and Personal Finance: An overview




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Financial Planning: A Pathway to Improved Financial Resilience




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Strategies to pay down debt

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Banks responding to unique financial needs of seniors




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Distributions of household economic accounts for income, consumption, saving and wealth of Canadian households, first quarter 2023




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What is the pay gap between persons with and without disabilities?




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Options you can trust to help you with your debt




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Debt Advisory Marketplace / Consumer awareness




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Building the case: poverty and food insecurity among working-age, single adults in Canada




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Backgrounder: poverty and food insecurity in Canada




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2023 Canadian Retirement Survey




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Access to good, relevant, financial help is missing for those who need it most




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Choosing a credit card




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How to plan your income sources in retirement

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Tax credits for seniors




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Family Literacy First




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7 ways to improve digital literacy skills on a budget




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Overspending and Mental Health: Your Guide to Improving Your Financial Health




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Protect yourself and your family: spotting the signs of financial abuse




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Empowering Women and Communities Through Financial Literacy




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Making the most of your money & Investing with interest: An introduction

Resources

Presentation slides and video time stamps

View the Making the most of your money course.

View the Investing with interest booklet. 

Read the presentation slides for this webinar.

Time stamps for the video:

0:50 –  Welcome, introductions, and warm-up

3:10 – Making the most of your money overview

12:57  – Demo

25:26 – Investing with interest overview

40:00 – Other resources

44:04 – Q&A

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Helping Canadians access benefits: An introduction to the Benefits Wayfinder

Resources

Handouts, slides and video time stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar. 

Download the promotional postcard.

Download the promotional poster.

  

Time-stamps for the video recording: 

1:26 – Welcome and introductions   

3:30 – Our goals for today’s session   

5:04 – Why these tools were created     

7:12 – The Benefits Wayfinder and the Disability Benefits Compass  

  • 8:40 – Tool walk-through of Benefits Wayfinder with a persona   
  • 37:00 – Disability Benefits Compass 

46:11 – Ways to use the Benefits Wayfinder – tax clinics   

49:37 – Access to Benefits training available   

 

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What is risk tolerance in investing?




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Red flags of crypto fraud

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Needs versus wants




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Benefits of filing a tax return




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Housing law: free legal information

This resource produced by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) provides a list of free legal information about paying rent, eviction procedures and much more.



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Inflation and your household budget

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Financial Health & Wealth

You worry about your family's physical, mental and spiritual health. You take care of yourself and make sure you and your family are healthy, safe and happy. Many people do not realize that you also need to be financially healthy. 

Financial wellness is understanding and managing your own money. Money is a big way that others control and influence our lives. Sometimes we need to depend on others to give us money and tell us what to do with money. Opening a bank account, understanding where your money is coming from, and saving money will help you to become financially independent and financially healthy. 

This report from The Native Women's Association of Canada covers the importance of financial health and has sections on financial information covering bank accounts, insurance, budgeting, saving, credit cards, car loans, income taxes and housing. 

 



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Making the most of your money

Managing money is challenging. In the current economic environment, it has become even more difficult. For people living on a low-income, managing the day-to-day expenses, let alone life changes or emergencies, can be overwhelming.  

Prosper Canada has created an online course that you can share or use with your clients to help them access tools and resources to support their daily money management.  

Making the most of your money is an easy-to-use, accessible, online course to help people living on a low income organize their finances and explore ways to increase the amount of money coming in and reduce what is going out. This interactive course has activities, videos, handouts and resources that are also downloadable.  



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5 benefits of paying down debt with your tax refund

The average Canadian tax return amount in 2023 is $2,072 and that money can go a long way when it comes to meeting your financial goals.

But remember, this isn’t a cash windfall; it’s YOUR money that the government borrowed from you, so Credit Canada recommends using it for needs versus wants. More specifically, consider using it to help pay down your debt.



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Credit scores and credit reporting in Canada

While your credit score is a number to quickly show how creditworthy you are, your credit report is more detailed. It covers your entire credit profile and includes information such as personal information, credit account (including credit cards, lines of credit, mortgages...), bankruptcies...

Watch this video by Scotiabank to learn what a credit score is and why it matters. 

Then learn how to check your credit score for free in Canada.

You may also learn how borrowing can impact your credit score.

If you check your credit report and your credit score is low, follow these tips for how to help increase credit scores. 



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Responsible or sustainable investing

While there is no official definition of responsible or sustainable investing, many investors would like to adopt an investment approach that combines environmental, socials and governance (ESG) factors with traditional financial research.

The Autorité des marchés financiers has compiled information about ESG factors, the challenges of investing while taking ESG factors into account.

Disponible en français.



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Money management worksheets

CPA Canada has a selection of money management worksheets you can use with your clients.

Goal Setting
Set SMART goals that are specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, time-framed.

Financial Fitness Self-Assessment
Determine how well you are currently managing your finances.

Values Validator
Determine the things in life that are most important to you.

Monthly Budget for Teens
Help teenagers living at home create a monthly budget.

Role Model Self-Assessment
Deter­mine what kind of financial role model you are.

Document Organizer
Organize your documents in preparation for filing your taxes.

Cash Flow Organizer
Get a clear picture of your cash flow — what is coming in and what is going out 

Net Worth Worksheet 
Get a snapshot of what you own (your assets) and what you owe (your liabilities)

Post-Secondary Student Budget
This worksheet will help students accurately estimate the total budget they need



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Financial wellness guide: questionnaire

CPA Canada developed the Financial Wellness Guide to help you understand money basics. Complete the online questionnaire to get straightforward tools and information, based on your financial situation, that will help you with your financial goals.



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The mastering money podcast

Brought to you from CPA Canada, this financial literacy podcast talks about key issues, trends and tips as they relate to financial education.

Season 7 of the Mastering Money podcast takes a deep dive into debt and the way it affects Canadians.

Season 6 of the Mastering Money podcast will help prepare you for retirement and give you the tools to get there, no matter your age.

Season 5 of the Mastering Money podcast unpacks the hard financial conversations you need to be having with your kids, partners, financial planners and more.

Season 4 of the Mastering Money podcast explores the role money plays in the lives of women from all walks of life, now and in the future.

Season 3 of the Mastering Money podcast looks at the difficult financial decisions Canadians are making during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Season 2 of the podcast takes listeners on a journey across various financial literacy hot topics and trends. These include how to fit financial literacy into existing programs, the financial health of future generations as well what it takes to take the plunge and start your own business.

In this introductory season of the podcast, hear from financial educators on topics such as behavioral economics, the emotions of money, financial wellness, and more.

 



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Your financial toolkit

A comprehensive learning program that provides basic information and tools to help adults manage their personal finances and gain the confidence they need to make better financial decisions. Learn more about the program and how to use the learning modules.



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Steps to offering a financial lifeline

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Women living in subsidized housing in Canada

Using data primarily from the 2021 Canadian Housing Survey, this study applies a gender lens to examine the characteristics of Canadians living in subsidized housing. It examines the experiences of renters in subsidized housing and their satisfaction with their dwelling and neighbourhood, drawing comparisons with their counterparts living in non-subsidized rental housing.



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Missing for those who need it most: Canada’s financial help gap

A new study by national charity Prosper Canada, undertaken with funding support from Co-operators, finds that Canadians with low incomes are increasingly financially vulnerable but lack access to the financial help they need to rebuild their financial health.

The report, shows that affordable, appropriate and trustworthy financial help for people with low incomes is a critical but missing piece in Canada's financial services landscape. People with low incomes are unlikely to find help when they need it to plan financially, develop and adhere to a budget, set and pursue saving goals, file their taxes outside of tax season, and access income benefits.

Executive summary: Canada's financial help gap

L’aide qui manque pour ceux qui en ont le plus besoin

Sommaire Exécutif: L’écart en matière d’aide financière au Canada

 



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Threats and intimidation to pay your tax bill? How to spot tax season scams

During the income tax filing season, scammers pose as representatives of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in an attempt to trick you into sending payment for fictitious "debts" or into providing sensitive personal information that they can use to commit fraud.

Learn more on how to spot tax season scams and what to do if you are the victim of fraud. 



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Financial literacy courses for Canadian students

Teachers may incorporate two gamified financial literacy courses that are currently freely available into their lessons.

Students can now access two age-appropriate courses designed to help boost students' financial knowledge and confidence at any stage of their financial journey.

Course titles:

  1.  Money Management Foundations* (Grades 6 - 12)
    • Money Management and Budgeting
  2. Money Management After High School* (Grades 9 - 12)
    • Managing My Money After High School

Students will explore resources and tools on the FCAC website that they will be able to use well beyond high school.

*Students can earn a completion certificate issued by the FCAC and ChatterHigh!



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Economic abuse screening tool (a toolkit for social service providers)

Women’s shelters are often the first point of contact for victim-survivors fleeing abusive relationships. Therefore, safety and shelter are logically at the forefront of staff members’ immediate concerns. Once the victim-survivor is in a place of safety, it is crucial to explore the patterns of abuse the person has experienced. Economic security is an often overlooked pattern of abuse linked to physical safety. It is, therefore, crucial and the goal of this screening tool for shelter workers to identify potential Economic and Financial Abuse amongst their clients and to assist victim-survivors in accessing essential economic resources.

Watch the webinar: Recognizing and responding to economic abuse; empowering survivors to thrive and succeed. 

Disponible en Français



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More Canadians are finding it difficult to meet food, shelter and other necessary expenses

In 2022, the Consumer Price Index rose 6.8%, the highest increase since 1982 (+10.9%). Prices for day-to-day goods and services such as transportation (+10.6%), food (+8.9%) and shelter (+6.9%) rose the most.

Canadians felt the impact of rising prices. Data from the Canadian Social Survey (CSS) show that the share of persons aged 15 and older living in a household experiencing difficulty meeting its necessary expenses trended upward from just under one-fifth (19%) in the summer of 2021 to just under one-quarter (24%) in the summer of 2022. By the end of 2022, more than one-third (35%) of the population lived in such a household.



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7 reasons to file a tax return

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Cyber security awareness quizzes

Discover a new quiz site to help Canadians and Canadian small businesses protect against phishing scams. 

The Canadian Bankers Association has created four quizzes for Canadians to learn more about cyber fraud and how to prevent becoming a victim. 

Quiz #1: Phish, vish, smish

Quiz #2: Social engineering: a peek behind the curtain

Quiz # 3: Protecting your small business from phishing attacks

Quiz #4: How to protect yourself and others

 



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Do you know how to prevent fraud?

Test your knowledge on fraud prevention by answering these 11 questions.



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Soaring with Savings

English

Soaring with savings - Tips and tools to help you save

SWS – About this Resource

SWS Worksheet #1 – The importance of saving (Fillable PDF)

SWS Worksheet #2 – Create a savings goal (Fillable PDF)

SWS Worksheet #3 – Savings support network (Fillable PDF)

SWS Worksheet #4 – Saving for emergencies (Fillable PDF)

SWS Worksheet #5 – Saving for unstable income (Fillable PDF)

SWS Worksheet #6 – Saving for education (Fillable PDF)

SWS Worksheet #7 – Saving for retirement (Fillable PDF)

SWS – Resources

Soaring with Savings- Full booklet

Soaring with savings - Training tools

Training deck and facilitator guide (English)

Resources

Tax-Free Savings Account Calculator, OSC

Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), OSC

Making it easier to save, OSC

Investing and Saving during a recession, OSC

Preparing for financial emergencies, OSC

Get your savings back on track, OSC

French

Encourager l’épargne - Conseils et outils pour vous aider à épargner

01 – L’importance de l’épargne
02 – Fixer un objectif d’épargne
03 – Réseau d’aide à l’épargne 
04 – Épargner pour les urgences
05 – Épargner en cas de revenu instable
06 – Épargner pour l’éducation
07 – Épargner pour la retraite

Ressources pour épargner

Encourager l’épargne – Livret complet

Encourager l’épargne - l’aide d’animation

Training deck and facilitator guide (French)

Ressources

CELI calculatrice, La Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

REER, La Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Épargnez plus facilement, CVMO

Investir et épargner pendant une récession, La Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Préparation en cas d’urgence financière, CVMO

Remettez vos finances sur la bonne voie, CVMO

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Dealing with Debt

English

Dealing with debt: Tips and tools to help you manage your debt

Dealing with debt – About this resource

DWD Worksheet #1 – Your money priorities – Fillable PDF

DWD Worksheet #2: What do I owe? – Fillable PDF

DWD Worksheet #3: Making a debt action plan – Fillable PDF

DWD Worksheet #4: Tracking fluctuating expenses – Fillable PDF

DWD Worksheet #5: Making a spending plan – Fillable PDF including calculations

DWD Worksheet #6: Your credit report and credit score – Fillable PDF

DWD Worksheet #7: Know your rights and options

Dealing with debt – Resources

Dealing with debt – Full booklet

Dealing with debt: Training tools

Dealing with debt – Facilitator tools (Training deck, facilitator guide, and sample Equifax credit report) – English

Resources

Managing debt , Ontario Securities Commission

Options you can trust to help you with your debt, Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada

Debt advisory marketplace/ consumer awareness, Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada

Navigating Finances: Paying Down Debt vs. Investing, CIRO

Loan and Trust, FSRA

French

Gestion de la dette: Conseils et outils pour vous aider à gérer votre dette

01 – Vos priorités financières
02 – Combien ai-je de dettes?
03 – Faire un plan d’action
04 – Suivi des dépenses variables
05 – Faire un plan de dépense
06 – Dossier de crédit et cote de solvabilité
07 – Connaître nos droits et nos options
Ressources : Pour en savoir plus
Gestion de la dette : Livret complet

Ressources

Gestion de la dette, La Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Des options fiables pour vous aider avec vos dettes, Bureau du surintendant des faillites

Marché des services-conseils en redressement financier et sensibilisation des consommateurs, Bureau du surintendant des faillites

Rembourser ses dettes ou investir? OCRI

Services de prêt et de fiducie, ARSF

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Income in retirement: Expectations versus reality

In 2014, a group of non-retired Canadians aged 55 or older was asked about their financial expectations for retirement. New data from 2020 reveal how this same group of Canadians - now retired- is doing financially. 



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Investing with Interest: tips and tools for maximizing your savings

English

Investing with interest: tips and tools for maximizing your savings

IWI – Worksheet #1: What do you want to save for?

IWI – Worksheet #2: Tracking your income and expenses

IWI- Worksheet #3: Are you ready to invest?

IWI- Worksheet #4: What can you invest in?

IWI-Worksheet #5: Where can you get advice?

IWI-Worksheet #6: Watch out for investment frauds and scams

IWI-Worksheet #7: Tips for success

Investing with interest – Resources

Investing with interest – Full booklet

Resources

Crypto Quiz, OSC

Grandparent scams and how to avoid them, OSC

RRSP Savings calculator, OSC

Compound interest calculator, OSC

Emergency fund calculator, OSC

Tips to keep your credit card safe, OSC

Investment products, OSC

Types of fraud, OSC

Multilingual financial resources for Ontarians, OSC

Pay down debt or invest tool, OSC

Reporting fraud, OSC

Planning for retirement, OSC

Investor readiness quiz, OSC

Introduction to investing, OSC

Scam spotter tool, OSC

Your trusted person and why they matter, OSC

Getting Your Money Back; An Investor’s Guide to Navigating Canada’s Complaint System, FAIR Canada

Study explores Canadian attitudes about Crypto, OSC

How the stock market works, OSC

The basics of personal finance, Credit Canada

Investing Academy, OSC

What is risk tolerance in investing, OSC

Eight common investment scams and how to spot them, OSC

4 signs of investment fraud, OSC

Evolution of the fraud pitch , Canadian Anti Fraud Centre

Saving or investing for short-term goals, OSC

Investor questionnaire, CIRO

Fees matter, MFDA

Fee calculator, OSC

Annual information about your investment fees, OSC

Investing basics, CIRO

Selecting an advisor, CIRO

The many faces of elder abuse, OSC

How to Read Your Account Statement and the Things to Focus on, CIRO

What is herd behaviour? OSC

Long-haul scammers: Fraudsters who invest time to take your money, OSC

Cybersecurity and Fraud, CIRO

Investor’s guide: cryptocurrencies, CIRO

Artificial intelligence and investor behaviour, OSC

Loan and Trust, FSRA

Fighting Fraud 101: Smart tips for investors, First Nations Development Institute

Financial Planners and Financial Advisors, FSRA

Glossary of common investing terms, CIRO

Invest smart: Taxes and investing, CIRO

Investing charts, OSC

French

L’intérêt d’investir: Conseils et outils pour maximiser votre épargne

01- Dan quel but voulez-vous épargner?

02- Faire le suivi de vos revenus et de vos dépenses

03- Êtes-vous prêt à investir?

04- Dans quoi pouvez-vous investir?

05- Où pouvez-vous obtenir des conseils?

06- Méfiez-vous des fraudes et arnaques

07- Conseils pour réussir

L’intérêt d’investir – Ressources

L’intérêt d’investir – Livret complet

Ressources

Questionnaire sur les cryptoactifs, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Les arnaques des grands-parents et comment les éviter, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Calculatrice épargne REER, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Calculatrice intérêts composés, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Calculatrice fonds d’urgence, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Astuces pour garder votre carte de crédit en toute sécurité, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Produits d’investissement, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Types de fraude, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Ressources financières multilingues pour les Ontariennes et les Ontariens, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Calculatrice rembourser des dettes ou investir, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Signaler une escroquerie, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Planification de la retraite, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Questionnaire préparation des investisseurs, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Introduction au placement, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Outil détecteur d’escroquerie, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Votre personne de confiance et les raisons qui expliquent son importance, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Comment vous faire rembourser : Un guide de l’investisseur pour mieux s’y retrouver dans le système de traitement des plaintes au Canada, FAIR Canada

Une étude explore les attitudes des Canadiens à l’égard de la cryptomonnaie, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Le fonctionnement de la bourse, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Académie d’investissement, Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

Quelle est votre tolérance au risque en matière d’investissement? CVMO

Huit escroqueries courantes en matière d’investissement et comment les repérer, CVMO

Quatre signes de fraude liée aux placements, CVMO

Bulletin : Évolution des types de fraudes, Centre centreantifraude du Canada 

Épargner ou investir pour réaliser des objectifs à court terme, CVMO

Questionnaire de l’investisseur, OCRI

Calculateur de frais, CVMO

Information annuelle sur vos frais de placement, CVMO

Principes de base en matière de placement, OCRI

Choisir un conseiller, OCRI

Les nobreuses facettes de l’exploitation financière envers les personnes âgées, CVMO

Comment lire votre relevé de compte et les éléments particuliers qu’il contient, OCRI

Les escrocs à l’investissement de longue durée : des fraudeurs qui investissent du temps pour vous soutirer de l’argent, CVMO

La cybersécurité et la fraude, OCRI

Intelligence artificielle et comportement des investisseurs, CVMO

Planificateurs financiers et conseillers financiers, ARSF

Glossaire des placements, OCRI

Investir judicieusement : les impôts et les placements, OCRI

Graphiques d’investissement, CVMO

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Benefits & credits: factsheets from the CRA

The CRA has compiled benefits and credits factsheets for:

  • Students
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Modest income individuals
  • Housing insecure individuals
  • Adults 65 and older
  • Women in shelters
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Newcomers

These are available in English and French.



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Getting Your Money Back: An Investor’s Guide to Navigating Canada’s Complaint System

If you have a complaint, it is important you fully understand your rights, so that you don’t feel taken advantage of during the process.

After reading the guide, you will:
● Know how and who to contact when you first make a complaint.
● Understand your basic rights during the process, including how much time your bank or investment firm has to resolve your complaint.
● Know when and where to bring your complaint, if you are not satisfied with your bank’s or investment firm’s response.
● Learn what other options may be available to you, if you are still not happy with the outcome.
● Be aware of time limits that may affect you.

Disponible en Francais 



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Consumer Vulnerability: Evidence from the Monthly COVID-19 Financial Well-being Survey

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s (FCAC) COVID-19 Financial Well-being Survey, which began in August 2020, is a nationally representative hybrid online-phone survey fielded monthly, with approximately 1,000 respondents per month. The survey collects information on Canadians’ day-to-day financial management and financial well-being.

As of September 2022, the survey results show that over the past several months, financial hardships have increased for many Canadians due to the rapidly evolving economic environment. While financial vulnerability can affect anyone regardless of income, background or education, hardships have increased more for those living on a low income, Indigenous peoples, recent immigrants, and women, due to the disproportionate financial impact of the pandemic on these groups (households with low income, Indigenous people, new immigrants, and women.)

This brief report provides an overview of survey results collected between August 2020 and September 2022. In publishing this report, FCAC’s goal is to provide insight into the financial well-being of Canadians, to identify which groups are experiencing greater vulnerabilities and hardships, and to inform and target our collective response as financial ecosystem stakeholders.



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Canada workers benefit

The Canada workers benefit (CWB) is a refundable tax credit to help individuals and families who are working and earning a low income.

The CWB has two parts: a basic amount and a disability supplement.

You can claim the CWB when you file your income tax return. Learn more including eligibility requirements, how to apply and how much you can expect to receive by clicking on the Get It button below. 



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The top 6 differences between TFSAs and RRSPs

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Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

A Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) can help you save for retirement while also saving at tax time — or even getting a rebate. The articles from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) can help you understand more about opening, contributing to, and withdrawing from an RRSP.



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Rising prices and the impact on the most financially vulnerable: A profile of those in the bottom family income quintile

This study uses the 2022 Portrait of Canadian Society Survey to examine the impact of rising inflation on the lowest income Canadians. Using multiple pre-pandemic data sources, the study takes a closer look at people living in the bottom family income quintile, examining their family income, debt and assets levels, as well as some indicators of economic hardship.



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Consumer Price Index: Annual review, 2022

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 6.8% on an annual average basis in 2022, following gains of 3.4% in 2021 and of 0.7% in 2020. The increase in 2022 was a 40-year high, the largest increase since 1982 (+10.9%). Excluding energy, the annual average CPI rose 5.7% in 2022 compared with 2.4% in 2021.

Price increases were broad-based in 2022, with prices up on an annual average basis in all eight major components. Canadians felt the impact of inflation, as prices for day-to-day basics such as transportation (+10.6%), food (+8.9%) and shelter (+6.9%) rose the most.

Both goods and services prices rose at a faster pace compared with a year earlier. Prices for goods were up 8.7% on an annual average basis in 2022, led by higher prices for non-durable goods such as food purchased from stores (+9.8%) and gasoline (+28.5%). Prices for services increased 5.0% in 2022, led by homeowners' replacement cost (+9.5%) and other owned accommodation expenses (+10.0%).

Year-over-year price growth accelerated each month in the first half of the year, reaching a high of 8.1% in June, and slowed in the second half of the year.



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Advancing Benefits for People with Disabilities

Resources

Presentation slides and video time stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar. 

Time stamps for the video recording:

    • 5:20  – Start
    • 6:12 – Land acknowledgement
    • 7:24 – Introduction of speakers
    • 9:42 – Today’s presentation
    • 10:45 – Barriers to access to benefits
    • 15:12 – Designing for benefit accessibility
    • 21:53 – ESDC pilot project
    • 32:46 –Demo of the disability benefit compass
    • 44:36 – Importance of evaluation
    • 50:58 – What’s next? What’s possible?
    • 58:55 – Questions

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Banking for newcomers to Canada

Banks offer extensive information on how newcomers to Canada can get started in their new country, including checklists, information, financial services and advice. Here is some basic information to get you started. A list of bank resources at the end of this article may also help with the financial transition to Canada.



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Housing conditions among racialized groups: A brief overview

In response to Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy, Statistics Canada's Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics is releasing a second set of five data tables on social inclusion. Over 20 new indicators, for a total of over 120 indicators, can now be used to examine various socioeconomic facets of racialized Canadians. 



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Money matters

Money Matters is a free introductory financial literacy program for adult learners that has been delivered to Canadians since 2011 and has reached over 80,000 adults. It was developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada in partnership with the Government of Canada and TD Bank Group and was designed by literacy practitioners.

The newly released resources as part of the Money Matters program are:

  • Emotional spending
  • How to be ready for extra costs
  • How to use extra money



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Managing your money in a changing world

Managing your finances means finding the right balance. Inflation and higher interest rates signal that you may need to adjust your budget to find the right balance between daily spending and paying down debt. The right balance will depend on your financial situation and goals.

This selection of tools from the FCAC provides information and tips on:

How to manage your money when interest rates rise

Make a plan to pay off your debt

What to consider before borrowing money

Know your rights when borrowing money



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Service Matters: Numbers Speak Volumes

The Annual Report by the Office of the taxpayer's ombudsman provides key achievements, identifies Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) service issues and outlines trends in complaints. In addition, the report includes three recommendations to the Minister of National Revenue and the Chair of the Board of Management to improve the CRA’s service to Canadians. 

 



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Research to help FSRA improve the lives of vulnerable consumers

Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario commissioned a research study that focused on consumer attitudes, how consumers are engaging with financial services, and consumer characteristics such as vulnerability.

Insights from the research are allowing FSRA to better understand the realities of consumers’ changing financial lives and helping to identify key opportunities to respond to the needs of vulnerable consumers.

2022 Consumer Research Study highlights.

2022 Consumer Research Study full report

 

 



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Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 10, Reduced Inequalities

An infographic from Statistics Canada highlighting the advances made in reaching Goal 10, reducing inequalities, of the sustainable development goals. 



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Cash flow calculator

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Ten frugal habits to save money

The Angus Reid institute reported from a recent study that 50% of Canadians couldn’t manage an unexpected expense of $1000 or more. In the same study, when Albertans were asked what they would do with a surprise bonus or gift of $5000, 46% said they would use it to pay down debt. Only 41% said they would put it in savings or invest it. With inflation as high as it has been in over 40 years, saving money is becoming increasingly difficult for some. This article lists ten frugal habits to help you save.



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Retirement savings course

The Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) launched its new Retirement Savings Course to empower Canadians wishing to learn the basics of retirement savings and to foster awareness of the importance of retirement income savings at any age.

Course highlights:

  • Self-paced learning on basic retirement savings concepts in simple language
  • Six bite-sized modules - each taking about 20-30 minutes to completed
  • Suitable for any age (in particular, those in the workforce starting to think about retirement savings)
  • No prior knowledge or qualifications are required

The free course will provide you an overview of the building blocks of retirement savings and insight into the role that government pensions and workplace pension plans may have for your future or that of those you care about.



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Tips to keep your credit card safe

Your credit card can help you make purchases quickly without needing to have cash on hand. Follow these tips by the Ontario Securities Commission to use your credit card safely.



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Insights into the risks and benefits of digital financial services for consumers

One of the consequences of social distancing and other restrictions, during the pandemic, such as those on business operating hours, is that consumers spent more of their time searching for information, shopping, and streaming entertainment on-line. With more free time on their hands and money in the bank, a larger percentage of the population took up an interest in investing, often through on-line brokerage platforms or in the cryptoasset markets.

Because consumers have been spending more time on-line since the start of the pandemic, they have been more exposed to on-line fraud. In addition to phishing and malware, consumers are dealing with known scams but in digital form, often on social media.

For some consumers, the evergrowing number of reliable and accessible information sources could lead to information overload, also known as “infobesity, where there is so much information that the consumer cannot process it all. Infobesity can lead to decision paralysis. 

In this paper the AMF make the most of their 360-degree view on the financial industry’s digital transformation to review the main changes that occurred in each of their areas of focus, describe the risk of digitalization for the consumers of financial products and services and present the potential opportunities that have been identified to mitigate these risks.



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Ottawa should soften bite of benefit clawbacks for low-income families

Canada’s tax system has a punitive impact on lower income families with children hoping to earn more money, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Softening the Bite: The Impact of Benefit Clawbacks on Low-Income Families and How to Reduce It,” authors Alex Laurin and Nicholas Dahir reveal how benefit reductions serve as hidden tax rates and reduce the effective gain from working to generate additional income.

Read full report here.



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The increasing financial vulnerability of Canadian households

Resources

Presentation slides, handouts, and video time-stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar.

Download the Overview of Financial vulnerability of Low-Income Canadians: A Rising Tide

Time-stamps for the video recording:
00:00 – Start

6:05 – Agenda and Introductions

8:24 – Overview of Financial vulnerability, of low-income Canadians: A rising tide (Speaker: Eloise Duncan)

25:40 – Panel discussion: how increasing financial vulnerability is playing out in community and how policy makers should respond.

45:35 – Q&A

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OSC study finds many investors overestimate their knowledge

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Government grants and bonds for education savings

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4 Reasons to keep saving even when inflation is high

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Spending habits calculator

Use this calculator to see how changes to your spending habits can impact your budget and help you save more of your money.



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Make it easier to save

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Managing debt

Managing debt doesn't have to be overwhelming. These tips and tools from the Ontario Securities commission can help you borrow wisely and pay off debt more quickly.



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Crypto Quiz

Are you considering investing in crypto assets, but aren’t sure whether it’s right for you, legal or just a scam? Test your crypto knowledge and learn how to spot the warning signs of fraud using OSC's quiz. 



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Financial literacy self-assessment quiz

Take this self-assessment quiz to figure out how your financial literacy skills and knowledge measure up compared to other Canadians.



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Investment knowledge quiz

Most people know a little about investing, but they need to know more to be able to manage their investments to meet their goals. Try this quiz by the FCAC to see if your knowledge is basic or more advanced.



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Start Your Investment Journey

Before you start investing, it is important to consider your budget and financial goals, and how much risk you are comfortable taking on. Like many things in life, investing comes with its own share of risks and rewards. You can do this on your own or with the help of an advisor.



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Financial Vulnerability of Low-Income Canadians: A Rising Tide

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Fraud alert videos

Learn more about fraud in this latest set of videos by the Ontario Securities Commission. 

  • Investment fraud
  • Pump and dump scams
  • Fake government messages
  • Warnings about your finances
  • Work from home scams
  • Quick high-return schemes

 



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Connecting families initiative

Daily aspects of Canadians' lives are increasingly touched by digital technology, and access to high-speed Internet has become an essential service and a key driver for improving our economic and social well-being.

The Government of Canada originally announced Connecting Families in Budget 2017 to help bridge the digital divide for Canadian families who struggled to afford access to home Internet. 

Learn more about the next phase of this initiative.



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Social Media and Retail Investing: The Rise of Finfluencers

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Investing and saving during a recession

If a recession seems likely, consider how your investing and savings plans may be affected. Increases in the cost of living and borrowing, combined with the overall financial uncertainty over the impact of a potential recession, can be enough to cause personal and financial stress. There is no single best way to respond to such times.



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Investment recovery calculator

This calculator will help you find out how long it will take for your investment to recover its value after a market downturn and identify how long it will take to get back on track to reach your original goal.



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Research study: Crypto assets 2022

This study by the Ontario Securities Commission examines Canadians’ crypto ownership and knowledge. It found 13% of Canadians currently own crypto assets or crypto funds. The study also found most Canadians did not have a working knowledge of the practical, legal and regulatory dimensions of crypto assets. Crypto assets were believed to play a key role in the financial system by 38% of those surveyed. The study provides a profile of crypto owners, their reasons for purchasing crypto assets or crypto funds, the role of financial advice, impact of advertising, and the experience of crypto owners with crypto trading platforms. 



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Investing with confidence for financially vulnerable Canadians

Resources

Presentation slides, handouts, and video time stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar.

Download resources provided by webinar speakers:

  • FAIR Canada handout
  • Investor Protection Clinic handout

Time-stamps for the video recording:
3:24 – Agenda and Introductions
6:36 – Audience poll questions

9:33 – FAIR Canada presentation (speaker: Tasmin Waley)
24:07 – Ontario Securities Commission presentation (speaker: Christine Allum)
39:10 – Investor Protection Clinic at Osgoode Hall Law School (speaker: Brigitte Catellier)
51:34 – Q&A

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Canada’s new working class: A modern understanding of the 6.5 million Canadians in the working class

The pandemic has accelerated a polarization of jobs that has become a structural trend in the Canadian economy. Previous Cardus research has shown that this polarization of the labour market between low- and high-skilled occupations, with a declining share of jobs available for mid-skilled workers, has led to an “hourglass economy.”


Yet, even while the share of the labour force employed in professional occupations rises, the working class retains the largest share of workers in the Canadian economy, making them an important political economy constituency. But who is the working class in Canada? This paper seeks to answer this question by proposing a modern taxonomy of the workforce and a picture of the working class that draws on a rich body of demographic, economic, and labour-market data.



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Cyber security awareness

The Canadian Bankers Association has created a new Cyber Security Awareness Quiz site to test your knowledge and ability to spot a “phishy” email, message or text.



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Cyber security & fraud prevention learning guide

Banks take fraud very seriously and have highly sophisticated security systems and teams of experts to protect you from financial fraud. As a banking customer, there are also simple steps you can take to recognize cyber crime and protect your personal information and your money. Educating yourself, your family and your employees about cyber safety can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be that complicated and the CBA has developed a learning path to help.



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About the Canada Learning Bond

The Canada Learning Bond (CLB) is money that the Government adds to a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) for children from low-income families. This money helps to pay the costs of a child’s full- or part-time studies after high school at apprenticeship programs, CEGEPs, trade schools, colleges, or universities. Learn more about eligibility requirements and the application process using this website.



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Canada’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan

Canada’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan is a comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to disability inclusion. It embeds disability considerations across our programs while identifying targeted investments in key areas to drive change. It builds on existing programs and measures that have sought to improve the inclusion of persons with disabilities, and establishes new and meaningful actions.



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Beware: Crypto scams on the rise

Fraudsters often use emotions to lure people in, making a person feel afraid of missing out on an opportunity that others are profiting from.  With all the cryptocurrency hype in the media and online, it’s no surprise that scammers are taking note and trying to cash in on investors’ interest in digital currencies. Read this article for more information on the top crypto-related scams you should know.



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National Indigenous Economic Strategy 2022

This National Indigenous Economic Strategy for Canada is the blueprint to achieve the meaningful engagement and inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian economy. It has been initiated and developed by a coalition of national Indigenous organizations and experts in the field of economic development. The Strategy is supported by four Strategic Pathways: People, Lands, Infrastructure, and Finance. Each pathway is further defined by a Vision that describes the desired outcomes for the actions and results of individual Strategic Statements. The Calls to Economic Prosperity recommend specific actions to achieve the outcomes described in the Strategic Statements. This document is not intended as a strategic plan specifically, but rather a strategy that others can incorporate into their own strategic plans.



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Pilot study: Buy now, pay later services in Canada

A key component of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s (FCAC’s) mandate is to monitor and evaluate trends and emerging issues that may have an impact on consumers of financial products and services. Technological innovations in financial services and shifting consumer behaviours have resulted in a steady increase in retail e-commerce sales over the past several years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on how consumers make retail purchases. Retail e-commerce sales reached record levels during the pandemic. This has further contributed to the proliferation of buy now, pay later (BNPL) services in Canada.



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Redefining financial vulnerability in Canada

Resources

Presentation slides, handouts, and video time-stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar.

Download the handout for this webinar: Flyer for ‘Redefining Financial Vulnerability in Canada: The Embedded Experience of Households’.

Time-stamps for the video recording:
3:31 – Agenda and Introductions
7:15 – Redefining financial vulnerability in Canada (speaker: Jerry Buckland and Brenda Spotton Visano)
24:33 – Audience poll question 1
27:07– Audience poll questions 2 & 3
33:57 – Audience poll question 4
38:00 – Financial Empowerment (Speaker: Margaret Yu)
52:15– Q&A

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Tools for Building Financial Well-Being in First Nation Communities

Resources

Financial education

*Resource is not specific to Indigenous communities

Money Management:

Dollars and Sense Program– AFOA Canada
Financial workshops for youth
Managing your money – Prosper Canada
Worksheets to set and work towards money goals
Financial literacy for Indigenous Peoples – RBC
A two-hour course on financial basics
Financial health & wealth – Native Women’s Association of Canada
Financial literacy information and worksheets
Money Matters for Indigenous Peoples – ABC Literacy
Money Matters workbooks
Money moccasins – Momentum
Workshops for Indigenous peoples on assets, budgets, banking, credit and consumerism.
Money stories– SEED Winnipeg
Customized money management training program for Indigenous youth
Empower U– Esquao Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women
Financial literacy program
The Game Plan – Indigenous Story Studio
Comic book on financial literacy (paid resource)
Financial Education Online*– Credit Counselling Society
Short online courses
Dollars and Sense* – Texas A&M (USA)
Online simulation for Middle and High School Students
Simple budget template* – Prosper Canada
Student budget worksheet* – FCAC
Gift planning worksheet*- Sudbury Community Service Centre
Budget planner* – Government of Canada
Building Native communities – First Nations Development Institute 
Financial health & wealth: an initiative by the Native Women’s Association of Canada 
Financial capability workbook 1 for Indigenous women (goal setting, mindset and savings)- NWAC 
Financial capability workbook 2 for Indigenous women (income, expenses and budgets)- NWAC
Financial capability workbook 3 for Indigenous women (banking and credit)- NWAC

Debt/Credit:

Credit– AFOA Canada
A Money Smarts podcast on how to build and keep credit in good shape
Proper use of credit* – Sudbury Community Service Centre
Tips on how to build good strong credit
Collection Agencies and You*- Sudbury Community Service Centre
Tips on your rights if contacted by a collection agency
Credit report request form* – Sudbury Community Service Centre
Equifax and TransUnion request forms
Credit report sample*– FCAC
Dangers of credit* – Sudbury Community Service Centre
The dangers of the different forms of credit available
Payday loans and you* – Sudbury Community Service Centre
Understanding how pay day loans work
Debt consolidation calculator * – Ontario Securities Commission
Combine multiple debts into one and calculate how soon you could be debt free
The 4 cornerstones of debt reduction strategies & budgeting* – Credit Counselling Society

Retirement:

Low-income retirement planning* Open Policy
A background paper on maximizing GIS

Taxes and benefits

*Resource is not specific to Indigenous communities

**Tax and benefits information changes on a regular basis, we encourage you to check the CRA website for up to date information.

Tax filing:

Roundtable on Income Tax Filing Supports in First Nation communities and Indigenous organizations (presentation) – Prosper Canada & AFOA Canada
Insights on planning free tax clinics in Indigenous communities – Prosper Canada
Podcast: Host a Free Tax Clinic – AFOA Canada
How to host a tax clinic (manual) – AFOA Canada
Tax packages*– CRA
Indigenous income tax issues– CRA
COVID-19 benefits, your return and repayments– CRA
Get free tax help– CRA
Understanding Indigenous Experience with Tax Filing (2022)– CRA 
Taxes and benefits for Indigenous Peoples– CRA

Benefits:

Benefits wayfinder*– Prosper Canada
Canada Learning Bond* – MySmartFUTURE, AFOA Canada
Canada Learning Bond*– Government of Canada
Podcast: Tax filing and accessing financial benefits – AFOA Canada
Webinar for Indigenous peoples: Get your benefits and credits – CRA
Canada Dental Benefit – CRA
One-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit– CRA
Working from home: Income tax exemption – CRA
Simplified northern residents travel deduction– CRA
Benefits and credits: Information for Indigenous peoples– CRA

Taxes and benefits:

Taxes and benefits for Indigenous peoples – CRA
Let us help you get your benefits! – CRA
Factsheet: Indigenous peoples – CRA (available in 16 languages) 
Financial Connect: Indigenous workbook – Bissell Centre, e4c, Institute for the advancement of Aboriginal Women

Relevant reading & viewing

*Resource is not specific to Indigenous communities

Money Smarts -AFOA Canada
podcast series

The shared path- First Nations Financial Wellness– Prosper Canada & AFOA Canada

Financial empowerment: Personal finance for Indigenous and non-Indigenous People – Bettina Schneider
Adaptation of openly licensed textbook Person Finance v 1.0 by Saylor Academy

Report on financial health and wealth from the Native Women’s Association of Canada

Housing in First Nations Communities from the Auditor General of Canada

Access to ID:

Access to Identification for Low-Income Manitobans* – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, MB
Research on what can be done to address challenges around ID
Eyeing the ID: Bio-metric Banking for Saint John* – NB Social Pediatrics and the Saint John Community Loan Fund
Identifies access to identification, as well as stringent identification requirements as the most prevalent barriers to receiving services

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Beware of One Time Passcode scams with these tips

While cyber criminals are always looking for ways to trick you into revealing information they can use to access your accounts, we have a few simple tips to avoid getting tricked by “one time passcode” scams that you may encounter while attempting to access your accounts securely.



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Cyber security toolkit

There are also simple steps you can take to recognize cyber threats and protect yourself. With a cyber hygiene checklist and tips on how to spot common scams, the CBA’s Cyber Security Toolkit can help you protect against online financial fraud.



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Cyber security checklist

Getting cyber safe doesn't have to be complicated. With the right resources and tools, you can stay safe and secure online. Here's a handy checklist for protecting your data online.



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Income support, inflation, and homelessness

A good deal of attention has been paid to the question of what these high rates of inflation in housing and food costs mean for Canadians. Much of the concern has focused on the implications for middle-income Canadians hoping to purchase a home, while squeezing their household budgets. But what do these rates of inflation mean for Canadians with very low income? For them, high rates of inflation in the price of food and shelter mean more than having to delay thoughts of homeownership. For them, the threats are considerably more serious.



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Social prescribing: A holistic approach to improving the health and well-being of Canadians

Social prescribing is a means of connecting people to a range of community services and activities to improve their health and well-being. These services vary based on each person’s needs and interests, and can include food subsidies, transportation, fitness classes, arts and culture engagement, educational classes, peer-run social groups, employment or debt counseling, and more. Social prescribing is a holistic approach to healthcare that looks to address the social determinants of health, which are the non-medical factors that play a role in an individual’s overall health. These factors may include socioeconomic status, social inclusion, housing, and education.



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Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing

The Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP) is a new national hub to link people and share practices that connect people to community-based supports and services that can help improve their health and wellbeing.



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Engaging youth as leaders in poverty reduction




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RESP savings calculator




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Thriving or surviving study 2022




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By the numbers: Black History Month 2022




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Investment products

There are many investment products, here's some information about them:

Annuities: a contract with a life insurance company. Annuities are most commonly used to generate retirement income. 

Bonds: when you buy a bond, you’re lending your money to a company or a government for a set period of time. In return, the issuer pays you interest. On the date the bond becomes due, the issuer is supposed to pay back the face value of the bond to you in full.

Complex investments: these investments may have the potential for higher gains, but carry greater risks. 

ETFs: when you buy a share or unit of an ETF, you’re investing in a portfolio that holds a number of different stocks or other investments.

GICs: when you buy a guaranteed investment certificate (GIC), you are agreeing to lend the bank or financial institution your money for a set number of months or years. You are guaranteed to get the amount you deposited back at the end of the term. 

Mutual funds & segregated funds: when you buy a mutual fund, your money is combined with the money from other investors, and allows you to buy part of a pool of investments. 

Real estate: While real estate investments can offer a range of benefits, there is no guarantee that you will earn an income or profit and, like any investment, there are a number of risks and uncertainties that you need to carefully consider before investing.

Stocks: The stock market brings together people who want to sell stock with those who want to buy stock. When you buy stock (or equity) in a company, you receive a piece of the company and become a part owner.

Pensions & saving plans: if your employer offers contributions to your retirement or other savings plan, take advantage. 

Cannabis: Emerging sectors like the cannabis industry have often attracted investors hoping to be among the first to capitalize on the potential growth and high returns of what they believe are untapped markets or products that may be popular in the future.

Cryptoassets: Cryptoassets primarily designed to be a store of value or medium of exchange (e.g., Bitcoin) are often referred to as “digital coins.



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Reporting fraud

A comprehensive set of articles are available on the Ontario Securities Commission website on how to identify and report fraud as well as what to do if you have been defrauded.  



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How Canadians bank

Banks in Canada are meeting the evolving preferences of their customers as powerful new technologies change the way people bank and how they pay for goods and services. Banking is transforming at a record pace, bringing innovation and new potential to empower Canadians’ lives in a digital world. This survey and other findings form the basis of How Canadians Banks, a biannual study by the Canadian Bankers Association and Abacus Data that examines the banking trends and attitudes of Canadians.

 



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Preparing for financial emergencies

Some emergencies in life can affect you financially. You could get sick, lose your job, or have a costly repair to your car or home. One of the best ways to cope with unexpected financial changes is to have an emergency fund. Ideally, this fund would provide enough money to cover your essential living expenses so you can avoid taking on debt.



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Multicultural and newcomer charitable giving study

While much research has been conducted on how giving is correlated to factors like educational attainment or income level, the influence of ethnicity has been elusive. This research attempts to better understand how newcomers to Canada and second-generation Canadians perceive and approach giving and volunteerism.



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What to do if you are defrauded

Financial fraud can be stressful and time-consuming experience. It can affect you both financially and emotionally.

If you are defrauded, or suspect that you may have been defrauded, follow the steps outlined in this article. 



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Introduction to behavioural insights for the social sector: a capacity building course

This self-paced online course will help you learn about behavioural insights and how they can help you increase impact in simple, practical ways. In this self-paced learning experience, you will learn foundational skills and tools that you can apply immediately to your work, creating a long-lasting social impact.



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Social determinants and inequities in health for Black Canadians: a snapshot

The following snapshot aims to highlight how Anti-Black racism and systemic discrimination are key drivers of health inequalities faced by diverse Black Canadian communities. Evidence of institutional discrimination in key determinants of health is also presented, including education, income, and housing. Finally, national data is shared demonstrating inequalities in health outcomes and determinants of health. Readers are invited to reflect on how racism and discrimination may contribute to these inequalities.



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A guide to the best robo-advisors in Canada for 2022

Robo-advisors first arrived in Canada in the beginning of 2014 presenting young and middle-income investors the option of having their savings passively managed in a bundle of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) matched to their goals and risk tolerance for about a penny on the dollar per year: A perfect set-it-and-forget it solution for people with better things to do. 

Fast forward to today and the honeymoon atmosphere has dissipated. Against the backdrop of an extraordinarily long-lived bull market in stocks, active management has made a comeback (not least in the ETF space), exotic asset classes like cryptocurrency are on the rise, and new competition is coming from asset-allocation ETFs that do the job of portfolio management all in one security.

Suddenly robo-advisors find themselves having to prove their worth anew, all the while trying to establish a profitable business model in a low-margin corner of the investment universe. It’s surprising, really, because amid all the competition their fee structures and value proposition are as good as or better than ever. 

Investors now must probe deeper in their choice of robo-advisor, asking tough questions around performance, risk and the composition of portfolios. The 2022 survey of the Canadian robo industry shows, they’re not all the same.



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Social assistance summaries

The Social Assistance Summaries series tracks the number of recipients of social assistance (welfare payments) in each province and territory. It was established by the Caledon Institute of Social Policy to maintain data previously published by the federal government as the Social Assistance Statistical Report. The data is provided by provincial and territorial government officials.



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TFSA Calculator

A Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) can be used to save for any goal. You put after-tax dollars into a TFSA, but your investments grow tax-free and you won’t pay any tax on withdrawal. 

Use this calculator to estimate the value of the investments in your TFSA when you’re ready to withdraw them, and compare this amount to the value of your investments in a non-registered plan to see your overall estimated tax savings.



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Types of fraud

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2022 Canadian Retirement Survey

The key takeaways from the 2022 Canadian Retirement Survey are:

  1. Canadians are growing increasingly concerned about day-to-day cost of living impacting their ability to save for retirement. 
  2. Capacity to save is dissolving for working Canadians, especially for those under 35
  3. Inflation and housing affordability concerns for all Canadians, especially for those under 35. 
  4. Canadians recognize the personal value of pensions
  5. Canadians recognize the societal value of pensions

Read the full presentation conducted for Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.



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Empower U Financial Coaching

Financial empowerment consists of five complementary strategies including financial literacy and coaching; taxes and access to benefits; safe financial products; savings and asset building; and consumer protection. Empower U serves primarily as a financial literacy and coaching and savings and asset building intervention (although partners also contribute to the other interventions).

The Sustainable Livelihood Model identifies five distinct sets of assets including personal, human, social, physical and financial. The Empower U program activities are grounded by two overarching philosophies: Financial Empowerment (as defined by Prosper Canada) and the Sustainable Livelihood Model (adapted by the Canadian Women’s Foundation, based on the work of the University of Sussex Institute for Development Studies).

Focusing on financial literacy and coaching, Empower U has developed an individual financial coaching component to the overall program.



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Empower U Evaluation Report

For a family living in poverty, every day is about making tough choices – to pay rent or buy groceries? Having the means to attain the basic necessities, is one thing. Having the skills, confidence and access to resources to manage finances in ways that build pathways out of poverty is something far different.

Thanks to the generosity of partners, supporters and donors of Empower U, families can move beyond just managing the day-to-day challenges of poverty. Participants in the program learn valuable money management skills and are given the means to build savings and assets to create financial stability. A future where they and their families can thrive.



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Checking registration

Checking registration helps protect you from unqualified or fraudulent individuals. Always check the registration of any person or business trying to sell you an investment or give you investment advice by using the Canadian Securities Administrators’ National Registration Search.

Titles like financial advisor, financial planner, investment consultant, and investment specialist aren’t legally defined terms or official registration categories. Some advisers or dealers may have designations that allow them to use specific titles, such as Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Checking registration tells you what specific products and services they are (and aren’t) qualified to offer you, regardless of title.



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Debt consolidation calculator

Debt Consolidation is the process of combining multiple debts into one. Use this calculator to calculate what your new monthly payments would be, how soon you could be debt free, and how much your total interest amount would be when you consolidate your debts.



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Financial consumer protection framework

This presentation provides information about the FCAC's public awareness strategy for Canada's new Financial Consumer Protection Framework including an overview of FCAC's planned activities and resources and highlights the importance of collective action to inform Canadians. 

Additional promotional toolkits can be found on the FCAC website. 



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Turning aces into assets

Ontario has just become the first province to open its legal gambling market to private internet gaming providers. As of April 4, 2022, Ontarians can play casino-style games online and place bets on sports, including single games, through sites regulated by iGaming Ontario. According to the provincial regulator, the launch of iGaming marks the triumph “of a legal internet gaming market” over “its previous grey market standing.” But as with all forms of gambling, this development has a dark side. It was only a matter of time before Ontario expanded its gambling market—not because of popular demand, but because the provincial government is addicted to gambling money and is eager to seize any opportunity to get more of it, regardless of the costs to the people it is supposed to protect.

This report provides the background of gambling in Ontario, outlines the new risks with iGaming and offers four policy options.



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Take the stress out of budgeting

Making a budget is one of the most helpful financial tools you can use on a regular basis. A budget can give you a clear picture of where your money is going. It’s easier to plan for the life you want, when you know how much money you have for saving, spending and paying off debt.

If you’ve never made a budget, or have not created one in a long time, it can be an intimidating reality check.  Don’t let stress or worry keep you from creating a budget.  The best budgeting method to use is the one that works for you.



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Grandparent scams and how to avoid them

Imagine a loved one is in trouble or hurt. You get a call asking for urgent help. You’d likely want to act right away because you care about them. Exploiting family ties is the driving force behind grandparent scams — or emergency scams.

This article from the OSC can help you to protect yourself from becoming a victim of an emergency scam.

Watch this new video to learn more about grandparent scams. 



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8 ways to prepare financially for retirement

This article from OSC provides 8 tips to help you plan for retirement. 

Transitioning from working life to retirement takes careful financial planning and decision-making – give yourself plenty of time to prepare. Here are some things you can do ahead of time.



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Guidance on digital delivery of financial education

Innovative uses of digital technologies in the delivery of financial education can serve multiple complementary objectives and effectively support the building blocks of financial education. This Guidance was developed to assist policy makers in deciding when to adopt digital delivery, and how to effectively design and implement digital financial education initiatives, by offering non-binding actionable directions. It builds on the work undertaken by the OECD and its International Network on Financial Education, including the G20/OECD-INFE Policy Guidance Note on Digitalisation and Financial Literacy and international comparative analyses on how public authorities design, deliver and evaluate digital financial education initiatives, notably in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The report on digital delivery of financial education design and practice builds on over 70 case studies from members of the OECD International Network on Financial Education, contributes to a better understanding of how public authorities worldwide are designing, delivering and evaluating digital financial education initiatives, and prepares forthcoming work on the development of high-level international guidance on the digital delivery of financial education. 



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Multilingual financial resources for Ontarians

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Behavioural bias checker

Being aware of potential biases can help you become a better decision-maker. Use this tool to improve your awareness of different behavioural biases or “blind spots” that may influence your decisions.



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Action-oriented public health resources on financial wellbeing and financial strain

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2022 Budget submission

Prosper Canada has submitted a budget to highlight that a plan is needed to ensure that vulnerable people are not made to repay unmanageable CERB/CRB debts, to pay back the income people lost when their refundable tax benefits were clawed back because of CERB, and to guarantee that CRB and CWLB are not clawed back from refundable tax credit payments in the 2021 and 2022 tax years.  



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Protecting aging investors through behavioural insights

This report identifies behaviourally informed techniques dealers and advisers can use to encourage their older clients to provide the necessary information for enhanced investor protection measures.



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Let’s talk money- seniors edition

Open, honest conversations about money are one of the keys to building a healthy relationship with your family, across the generations.

With a little preparation, talking about financial matters can help build trust, deepen connections, relieve stress and lead to greater peace of mind.

Yet for many people, these conversations can be difficult. In some families, money is just not something you talk about. The same applies to wills, inheritances, senior living, end-of-life care and many more topics that matter most to seniors.

Let's Talk About Money: Seniors' Edition -- wants to help you change that. There are tips to help parents talk with adult children and tips for adult children to have meaningful money conversations their parents.

The most important thing is to have these conversations early, before there’s a crisis. So let's start talking.



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Access to Identification for Low-income Manitobans

Government-issued identification (ID) is essential to gain access to a wide range of government entitlements, commercial services and financial systems. Lack of ID on the other hand, represents a critical barrier that prevents low-income Manitobans from accessing these services and benefits, and ultimately results in further marginalization and deepening poverty. Other provinces are now recognizing that ID is necessary to navigate the modern world and are doing something to support those who fall through the cracks.

A new study, Access to Identification for Low-Income Manitobans researches what can be done to address these challenges and offers recommendations to reduce barriers to ID for low-income Manitobans.



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Household Food Insecurity in Canada, 2017-2018

Food insecurity – inadequate or uncertain access to food because of financial constraints – is a serious public health problem in Canada, and all indications are that the problem is getting worse.

Drawing on data for 103,500 households from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Community Health Survey conducted in 2017 and 2018, we found that 12.7% of households experienced some level of food insecurity in the previous 12 months. There were 4.4 million people, including more than 1.2 million children under the age of 18, living in food-insecure households in 2017-18. This is higher than any prior national estimate.



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Recognizing and responding to economic abuse

With speakers from CCFWE, Johannah Brockie - Program Manager for Advocacy and System Change and Jessica Tran - Program Manager for Education and Awareness, this webinar will guide you through the definition of economic abuse, how to identify an economic abuser, impacts of economic abuse, Covid-19 impacts, tactics, what you should do if you are a victim of economic abuse, and key safety tips.

Economic Abuse occurs when a domestic partner interferes with a partner’s access to finances, employment or social benefits, such as fraudulently racking up credit card debt in their partner’s name or preventing their partner from going to work has a devastating effect on victims and survivors of domestic partner violence, yet it’s rarely talked about in Canada.

It’s experienced by women from all backgrounds, regions and income levels but women from marginalized groups, including newcomers, refugees, racialized and Indigenous women, are at a higher risk of economic abuse due to other systemic factors.



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Economic Abuse: Coercive Control Tactics in Intimate Relationships

This infographic explores 3 forms of economic abuse and associated tactics used to coercively control intimate partners.

These abusive tactics are compounded by economic systems that systemically oppress groups including Black, Indigenous, and people of colour; people with disabilities; people with precarious immigration status; and gender-oppressed people.

Economic abuse consists of behaviours to control, exploit, and sabotage an individual’s resources. It limits the individual’s independence and autonomy.

Compared to financial abuse which usually only focuses on money, economic abuse includes a more expansive range of behaviour that affects things like employment, food, medicine, and housing. 

Economic abuse is often used to coercively control individuals, such as intimate partners. It occurs in conjunction with further forms of abuse, like physical and sexual violence. Economic abuse can make it more difficult for survivors to escape violence since they may not have the resources to secure long-term housing and employment while meeting basic needs for themselves and potentially their children.



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Investing basics

Whether you’re a first-time investor, thinking of saving for your education, or planning for your retirement, FAIR Canada's investing basics may help you on your investing journey. 



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Municipal Toolkit: A toolkit for embedding financial empowerment supports into municipal services

English

For frontline staff - Quick tools you can use with clients

Starting the conversation

Here are 7 questions to help you start a conversation about money with your client. Based on what you learn about your clients’ needs, the remaining links on this page to help you find answers and next steps.

Try this coaching readiness checklist to help your client ascertain if they have the time and are interested in receiving financial coaching.

Worksheets & tip sheets 

Here are some “go to” worksheets and tip sheets that frontline staff have found very helpful with their clients. They focus on budgeting, saving, and debt management – common FE needs that come up. Try them out for yourself first and see which ones might work for your clients.

The Budget Spreadsheet is an excellent tool for capturing the full picture of an individual’s financial picture. The individual inputs information according to different categories and the tool calculates totals in a summary page to show how much money is left over at the end of the month. [Thunder Bay Counselling]

The Simple budget template is an alternative monthly budget tool clients can use. It includes links to an Income tracking worksheet and Expenses tracking worksheet. [Prosper Canada / Trove]

The Urgent vs Important worksheet can help clients prioritize their spending. This, in turn, can help them save or “find money” for necessary expenses. [Prosper Canada / Trove]

Knowing how to set a SMART goal is important for planning and achieving targets. In the Set a SMART financial goal, clients learn what a SMART goal is and write SMART financial goals that are important to them. [Prosper Canada / Trove]

Making a spending plan is a worksheet clients can use to create a spending plan for each week based on money coming in and out each month. [Prosper Canada / Trove]

Making a debt action plan is a worksheet to help your clients get a handle on their debt. [Prosper Canada / Trove]

Tips for Managing Debt and Bills is a reference sheet you can give clients during tough times when managing cash flow is a challenge.

Prioritizing bills helps clients prioritize what bills to pay when it’s not possible to pay for everything. Note that this tool is from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an American government agency and includes a link to their website. Let clients know the information on the website is geared to the US context. [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]

Online sites and tools

Here are great online tools you can also share and use in your FE work with clients.

Benefits wayfinder [benefitswayfinder.org]

Support with access to benefits is another powerful FE intervention. The Benefits wayfinder is a simple, easy to use, plain language tool that helps people on low and modest incomes find and track benefits they could get. Clients can use it on their own or with your support.

Read the Benefits wayfinder fact sheet to learn more.

Then watch the How to use this tool video. It highlights and demonstrates how to navigate through the key features of the tool.

If you would like additional training on how to support your clients with access to benefits and use the Benefits wayfinder tool in your money conversations, you can sign up for Prosper Canada’s self-directed online course and/or live workshop.

Trove [yourtrove.org]

Trove is a free bilingual website that clients can visit on their own or with your support. Many of the tools you were introduced to above can be found on Trove, along with a wealth of other user-friendly financial tools, worksheets, and education information to help clients take charge of their spending, learn about tax filing and benefits, and manage debt.

Along with a link to the Benefits wayfinder, you can also find these online tools:

  • My money in Canada is a website that can help clients build healthy money habits with simple, easy to use learning modules on a range of money topics. The site also includes videos and a financial wellness checklist for clients.
  • The RDSP Calculator for Canadians can be used to assess the potential of opening and contributing to a Registered Disability Savings Plan.

For managers - Tools for getting started with financial empowerment

The resources below focus on starting steps and tools to assist in the initial planning and implementation stages for embedding FE. Future phases of the toolkit will share resources for later stage efforts, as well as non-municipal efforts, such as public libraries and health care systems.

Tool 1. Making the case for financial empowerment

For FE to be successful, it’s critical to get buy-in from staff and stakeholders.

Below are great resources to share with key players who are new to FE. They can help you get others quickly up to speed on what FE is and the value of embedding FE as you onboard them or work to build interest in FE in your municipality.

  • Prosperity Gateways Primer gives a quick overview of the “what” and “why” of embedding FE into municipal services.
  • FE Brochure provides a more detailed introduction to FE and embedding FE.
  • Here are three case examples you can use to show the powerful impact embedding FE into municipal services can have:
  • Case example: York region
  • Case example: TESS
  • Case example: Edmonton

Tool 2. Getting started: the internal scan 

Take the time to learn about common FE interventions. Then, assess conditions, capacity and considerations in your municipality for providing these kinds of financial help to your clients.

This tool guides you through an internal scan as you envision what embedding FE might look like in your service delivery context. Consider Tool 2: Getting started: the internal scan a starting point that will continue to evolve as you move through the process.

Tool 3. Exploring partnerships: the external scan

Municipalities do not have to deliver FE supports themselves to turn their services into Prosperity Gateways. In many cases, especially at the outset, it may be more cost-effective and less resource intensive to establish referral pathways to other local service providers or to partner with non-profit organizations, foundations, or financial service providers to deliver the financial help to meet your clients’ needs.

Use Tool 3: Exploring collaborations and partnerships to perform a scan of FE services in your local community and identify potential collaborations and partnerships.

Two additional partnership resources are ‘Elements of Integration‘ and ‘Partnership Tip Sheet‘

Tool 4. Designing the initiative: the service blueprint

Having completed an internal and external scan of barriers and opportunities, you are now ready to design an FE initiative to suit your municipality’s context. Designing the initiative is an important phase where you work out the service model, clarify partnerships, and imagine the ideal client experience.

Tool 4: Designing the initiative guides you through choosing the best service delivery model for your context and designing the client and staff journey.

We hope this toolkit will grow and improve with use and feedback. Current ideas for upcoming tools include:

  • Understanding your clients’ financial capability
  • Building a successful team
  • Supporting staff for success
  • Setting up effective data collection and evaluation processes

Tool 5. Designing the initiative: a shadowing guide

Tool 5: A shadowing guide can help frontline staff understand the process from intake to service delivery.

Feedback / Suggestions

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for tools that you would find useful. Please email: [email protected].

Learn more about FE

Canadian Publications

Prosperity Gateways: Cities for financial empowerment – Building the case outlines evidence for embedding FE.

Read the report How financial empowerment services are helping Ontarians build financial health for more supporting evidence and personal stories.

Financial Empowerment – What is it and how it helps reduce poverty [national] suggests that FE is a critical missing piece of federal government policy that can significantly boost client outcomes when it is embedded into other programs and services.

Financial Empowerment – What is it and how it helps reduce poverty [Alberta] provides an overview of provincial government action on FE in Alberta. The Alberta government adapted the national document (by the same name) to use in their internal discussions with municipal decision-makers. Create a document that you can use for your internal discussions using this as an example.

U.S. Publications

The municipal integration of FE in Canada is grounded in influential work in the US by the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund. Launched in 2012 in New York the CFE Fund showed that embedding FE strategies into local government infrastructure can have a “supervitamin effect” on public programs, increasing the financial stability of low to moderate income households.

  • Read the pioneering article: “Municipal Financial Empowerment: A Supervitamin for Public Programs”
  • Learn more about their Financial Empowerment Centers model in this 4-minute video
  • Visit their website to see resources and sign up for their quarterly newsletter
  • See a three-year evaluation of the model in 5 cities across the US. “An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers – Building People’s Financial Stability as a Public Service”

The Urban Institute examined the cost of residents’ financial insecurity to city budgets in 10 American cities in this 2017 research. Across these cities, the costs range from the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, suggesting that cities have an economic interest in improving their residents’ financial health.

A report by JP Morgan Chase reviews municipal efforts to integrate financial capability into public services in several US locations in “A Scan of Municipal Financial Capability Efforts.”

French

Pour le personnel de première ligne — Outils rapides que vous pouvez utiliser avec les clients

Amorcer la conversation

Voici sept questions qui vous aideront à entamer une conversation à propos de l’argent avec votre client. En fonction de ce que vous avez appris sur les besoins de vos clients, les autres liens de cette page vous aideront à trouver des réponses et à connaître les prochaines étapes.

Utilisez cette liste de vérification pour aider votre client à décider s’il a le temps et s’il souhaite recevoir un accompagnement financier. 

Fiches de travail et fiches de conseils

Voici quelques feuilles de travail et des feuilles de conseils que le personnel de première ligne a trouvé très utiles pour ses clients. Elles portent principalement sur la planification budgétaire, l’épargne et la gestion des dettes — les besoins courants en matière d’AF qui se présentent. Essayez-les d’abord pour vous-même et voyez ceux qui pourraient convenir à vos clients.

La feuille de calcul du budget (anglais seulement) est un excellent outil pour saisir le portrait complet de la situation financière d’un individu. La personne saisit les données selon différentes catégories et l’outil calcule les totaux dans une page de synthèse pour montrer combien d’argent il reste à la fin du mois. [Thunder Bay Counselling]

Le modèle de budget simple est un outil alternatif de budget mensuel que les clients peuvent utiliser. Il comprend des liens vers une feuille de calcul de suivi des revenus et une feuille de calcul de suivi des dépenses. [Prospérité Canada/Trove]

La feuille de calcul Urgent versus Important peut aider les clients à établir des priorités dans leurs dépenses. Cela peut ensuite les aider à économiser ou à « trouver de l’argent » pour les dépenses nécessaires. [Prospérité Canada/Trove]

Il est important de savoir comment établir un objectif INTELLIGENT pour mettre en place et atteindre des objectifs. Avec l’outil Comment établir des objectifs financiers INTELLIGENTS, les clients apprennent ce qu’est un objectif INTELLIGENT et choisissent des objectifs financiers INTELLIGENTS qui sont importants pour eux. [Prospérité Canada/Trove]

La feuille de calcul Comment établir un plan de dépenses est un outil que les clients peuvent utiliser pour créer un plan de dépenses pour chaque semaine en fonction des entrées et sorties d’argent du mois. [Prospérité Canada/Trove]

La feuille de calcul Élaboration d’un plan d’action en matière de dettes est un outil pour aider vos clients à prendre le contrôle sur leurs dettes. [Prospérité Canada/Trove]

Conseils pour la gestion des dettes et des factures est une feuille de référence que vous pouvez donner à vos clients dans les moments difficiles où la gestion des fonds est un défi.

Le classement des factures par ordre de priorité (anglais seulement) aide les clients à déterminer les factures à payer en premier lorsqu’il n’est pas possible de tout payer. Notez que cet outil provient du Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), une agence gouvernementale américaine, et comprend un lien vers son site Web. Expliquez aux clients que les renseignements figurant sur le site Web sont adaptés au contexte américain. [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]

Sites et outils en ligne

Voici d’excellents outils en ligne que vous pouvez également faire connaître et utiliser dans votre travail en matière d’AF avec les clients.

Orienteur en mesures d’aide [benefitswayfinder.org/fr]

L’aide à l’accès aux mesures d’aide est une autre façon puissante d’intervenir en matière d’AF. L’Orienteur en mesures d’aide est un outil simple, facile à utiliser et rédigé en langage clair qui aide les personnes à revenus faibles ou modestes à trouver et à répertorier les mesures d’aide auxquelles elles peuvent prétendre. Les clients peuvent l’utiliser seuls ou avec votre aide.

Pour en savoir plus, lisez la fiche d’information sur l’Orienteur en mesures d’aide. (anglais seulement)

Ensuite, regardez la vidéo Comment utiliser cet outil (anglais seulement). Elle explique et démontre comment naviguer à travers les principales caractéristiques de l’outil.

Si vous souhaitez obtenir une formation supplémentaire sur la façon d’aider vos clients à accéder aux mesures d’aide et d’utiliser l’Orienteur en mesures d’aide dans vos conversations au sujet de l’argent, vous pouvez vous inscrire au cours autodidacte en ligne  ou à l’atelier en direct de Prospérité Canada.

Trove [yourtrove.org/fr] 

Trove est un site Web bilingue gratuit que les clients peuvent visiter par eux-mêmes ou avec votre aide. La plupart des outils qui vous ont été présentés ci-dessus se trouvent sur Trove, ainsi qu’une multitude d’autres outils financiers conviviaux, des feuilles de calcul et des renseignements éducatifs pour aider les clients à prendre en charge leurs dépenses, à se renseigner sur la déclaration et les avantages fiscaux et à gérer leurs dettes.

En plus d’un lien vers l’Orienteur en mesures d’aide, vous trouverez également ces outils en ligne :

  • Mon argent au Canada est un site Web qui peut aider les clients à acquérir de bonnes habitudes en matière de gestion de l’argent grâce à des modules d’apprentissage simples et faciles à utiliser sur toute une série de sujets liés à l’argent. Le site comprend également des vidéos (anglais seulement) et un questionnaire relatif au bien-être financier pour les clients.
  • La calculatrice du REEI pour les Canadiens peut être utilisée pour évaluer la possibilité d’ouvrir et de cotiser à un régime enregistré d’épargne-invalidité.

Pour les gestionnaires — Outils pour démarrer avec l’autonomisation financière

The resources below focus on starting steps and tools to assist in the initial planning and implementation stages for embedding FE. Future phases of the toolkit will share resources for later stage efforts, as well as non-municipal efforts, such as public libraries and health care systems.

Outil 1. Argumenter en faveur de l’autonomisation financière. 

Pour que l’AF soit un succès, il est essentiel d’obtenir l’adhésion du personnel et des intervenants.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous d’excellentes ressources à faire connaître aux acteurs clés qui ne connaissent pas encore l’AF. Elles peuvent vous aider à faire comprendre rapidement aux autres ce qu’est l’AF et la pertinence d’intégrer l’AF lorsque vous les accueillez ou lorsque vous travaillez à susciter l’intérêt pour l’AF dans votre municipalité.

● L’abécédaire des passerelles pour la prospérité (anglais seulement) donne un aperçu de « qu’est-ce que c’est » et du « pourquoi » au sujet de l’intégration de l’AF dans les services municipaux.

● La brochure de l’AF (anglais seulement) fournit une introduction plus détaillée à l’AF et à l’intégration de l’AF.

● Voici trois exemples de cas que vous pouvez utiliser pour montrer l’impact puissant que peut avoir l’intégration de l’AF dans les services municipaux :

o Exemple de cas : Région de York

o Exemple de cas : Services sociaux et d’emploi de Toronto

o Exemple de cas : Edmonton

Outil 2. Commencer : l’analyse interne

Prenez le temps de vous renseigner sur les types d’interventions courantes en matière d’AF. Ensuite, évaluez les conditions, la capacité et les considérations dans votre municipalité pour fournir ces types d’aide financière à vos clients.

Cet outil vous guide à travers une analyse interne qui vous permet d’envisager ce que pourrait être l’intégration de l’AF dans votre contexte de prestation de services.

Considérez l’outil 2 : Commencer : l’analyse interne un point de départ qui continuera à évoluer à mesure que vous avancerez dans le processus.

Outil 3. Explorer les partenariats : l’analyse externe 

Les municipalités ne sont pas obligées de fournir elles-mêmes des mesures d’aides en matière d’AF pour transformer leurs services en passerelles pour la prospérité. Dans de nombreux cas, surtout au début, il peut être plus rentable et moins exigeant sur le plan des ressources d’établir des liens de référence vers d’autres prestataires de services locaux ou de s’associer à des organismes à but non lucratif, des fondations ou des prestataires de services financiers pour fournir l’aide financière répondant aux besoins de vos clients.

Utilisez l’outil 3 : Explorer les collaborations et les partenariats pour effectuer une analyse des services en matière d’AF dans votre communauté locale et identifier les collaborations et partenariats potentiels.

Deux autres ressources à propos du partenariat sont les « Éléments de l’intégration » et les « Conseils pour le partenariat » . 

Outil 4. Concevoir l’initiative : le plan de service

Après avoir effectué une analyse interne et externe des obstacles et des opportunités, vous êtes maintenant prêt à concevoir une initiative d’AF adaptée au contexte de votre municipalité. La conception de l’initiative est une phase importante où vous élaborez le modèle de service, clarifiez les partenariats et imaginez l’expérience client idéale.

L’outil 4 : Conception de l’initiative vous guide dans le choix du meilleur modèle de prestation de services pour votre contexte et dans la conception du parcours du client et du personnel.

Nous espérons que cette boîte à outils se développera et s’améliorera avec l’utilisation et les commentaires. Les idées actuelles pour les outils à venir incluent :

  • Comprendrela capacité financière de vos clients
  • Mettresur pied une équipe performante
  • Soutenirle personnel pour qu’il réussisse
  • Mettreen place des processus efficaces de collecte de données et d’évaluation

Outil 5. Concevoir l’initiative : un guide d’observation

L’outil 5 : Un guide d’observation peut aider le personnel de première ligne à comprendre le processus, de l’accueil à la mise en œuvre du service. 

Commentaires et suggestions

Nous serions ravis d’entendre vos commentaires et vos suggestions d’outils que vous trouveriez utiles. Veuillez nous envoyer un courriel : [email protected].

En savoir plus en matière d’AF

Publications canadiennes

Passerelles de prospérité : Les villes pour l’autonomisation financière — établir le dossier (anglais seulement) décrit les preuves qui sont pour l’intégration de l’AF.

Lisez le rapport intitulé Comment les services d’autonomisation financière aident les Ontariens à renforcer leur santé financière (anglais seulement) pour obtenir plus de preuves et de récits personnels.

Le document Autonomisation financière — qu’est-ce que c’est et comment cela aide à réduire la pauvreté [national] (anglais seulement) suggère que l’autonomisation financière est une pièce manquante essentielle de la politique du gouvernement fédéral qui peut considérablement améliorer les conditions de vie des clients lorsqu’elle est intégrée à d’autres programmes et services.

Le document Autonomisation financière — qu’est-ce que c’est et comment cela aide à réduire la pauvreté [Alberta] (anglais seulement) donne un aperçu de la démarche du gouvernement provincial en matière d’AF en Alberta. Le gouvernement de l’Alberta a adapté le document national (du même nom) pour l’utiliser dans ses discussions internes avec les décideurs municipaux. Créez un document que vous pourrez utiliser pour vos discussions internes en utilisant cet exemple.

Publications américaines

L’intégration municipale de l’AF au Canada est fondée sur les travaux influents réalisés aux États-Unis par le Fonds Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE). Lancé en 2012 à New York, le Fonds CFE Fund a montré que l’intégration de stratégies d’AF dans l’infrastructure des gouvernements locaux peut avoir un « effet super vitaminé » sur les programmes publics, en augmentant la stabilité financière des ménages à revenu faible ou modéré.

  • Lisez l’article pionnier : « Municipal Financial Empowerment: A Supervitamin for Public Programs » (anglais seulement)
  • Apprenez-en davantage sur leur modèle de centres d’autonomisation financière (anglais seulement) dans cette vidéo de quatre minutes.
  • Visitez leur site Web (anglais seulement) pour voir les ressources et vous inscrire à leur infolettre trimestrielle.
  • Découvrez une évaluation de trois ans du modèle dans cinq villes des États-Unis. « An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers – Building People’s Financial Stability as a Public Service » (anglais seulement)

L’Urban Institute a examiné le coût de l’insécurité financière des résidents sur les budgets municipaux de dix villes américaines dans cette recherche de 2017 (anglais seulement). Dans ces villes, les coûts vont de dizaines à des centaines de millions de dollars, ce qui suggère que les villes ont un intérêt économique à améliorer la santé financière de leurs résidents.

Un rapport de JP Morgan Chase passe en revue les efforts déployés par les municipalités pour intégrer la capacité financière dans les services publics dans plusieurs villes américaines dans « A Scan of Municipal Financial Capability Efforts » (anglais seulement).

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Your trusted contact person and why they matter

The Trusted Contact Person initiative has been adopted across Canada.

It is part of new regulatory measures to support advisors in their efforts to help investors, particularly older investors and vulnerable, protect themselves and their financial interests.

Canadian seniors are increasingly called upon to make complex financial decisions, with higher stakes, later in life than ever before. For many, health, mobility, or cognitive changes that can occur with age, may affect their ability to make these decisions. This can make seniors more susceptible to financial exploitation and fraud. In fact, about half of the victims of investment fraud are over age 55.

Watch this new video on understanding the importance of appointing a trusted contact person. 



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Compound interest calculator

Using OSC's online calculator, find out how your investment will grow over time with compound interest.



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Emergency fund calculator

Some emergencies in life can affect you financially. You could get sick, lose your job, or have a costly repair to your car or home. An emergency fund can provide a financial safety net. Ideally, this fund would provide enough money to cover your essential living expenses so you can avoid taking on debt.

Use OSC's calculator to estimate how much money should be set aside to pay for financial emergencies. 



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Survey on savings for persons with disabilities

Residents in Canada who have a severe and prolonged mental or physical disability are eligible for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC). This opens the door to other programs, one of which is the RDSP.

Less than one-third of eligible residents in Canada (up to age 59) have a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP)—about 31.5% in 2020.

To understand why more eligible residents in Canada do not have an RDSP, Employment and Social Development Canada asked Statistics Canada to conduct the Survey on Savings for Persons with Disabilities. Its goal was to collect data from residents in Canada who were eligible for an RDSP but did not open one.

These respondents included both persons with disabilities and family members or others who care for persons with disabilities, since the holder of the plan may not be the same person as the beneficiary in all cases.

These data show that, in general, eligible residents in Canada lack information about the RDSP, with many not being aware it exists and a substantial portion reporting not having enough information or money to open one.



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Introduction to investing: A primer for new investors

Whether you’re new to investing, or new to Canada, InvestingIntroduction.ca can help. Visit the Ontario Securities Commission's refreshed website and find resources to help you make more informed investment decisions and better protect your money.

The information is available in 22 languages.



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A guide to protect yourself against investment fraud

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Retirement budget worksheet

Good financial planning starts with knowing what you spend. Try out this budget worksheet, prepared by the Ontario Securities Commission,  to see the difference in your costs before you retire and after you stop working. 



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15 percent of Canadians are ‘underbanked’ — here’s what that means and why it’s a barrier to equitable recovery

Research shows that 15 percent, or close to five million Canadians, are underbanked, and three percent are completely unbanked, meaning that they have very limited or no access to financial services within the traditional banking sector. 

Ironically, underbanked individuals often come from low-moderate income backgrounds which put them at a higher need for accessible financial services. However, factors like low credit scores, high credit card fees, and non-sufficient fund fees are major barriers that shut Canadians out from banks.

Instances of explicit racism while banking, which include being handcuffed when trying to open a bank account, have further diminished the trust in banks for many Black, Indigenous and people of colour.  



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Five Good Ideas about using human-centred design for social change

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Scam spotter tool

Are you considering a new investment?
Use this tool to learn how to spot the warning signs of fraud, and to learn how to protect yourself from suspected scams.



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FCAC new consumer information – electronic alerts

Le français suit l’anglais.

As of June 30, 2022, banks will be required to send electronic alerts to their customers to help them manage their finances and avoid unnecessary fees.  Some banks have already started sending these alerts to their customers.  The electronic alerts are part of the new and enhanced protections in Canada’s Financial Consumer Protection Framework (the Framework) that comes into effect on June 30, 2022.

To inform Canadians about electronic alerts and their benefits, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) published new consumer information on electronic alerts, developed an infographic, and prepared social media content that you can use on your own social media channels.

Under the Framework, banks will be required to:

  • disclose key information to help their customers make timely and informed decisions
  • provide customers with more timely complaint-handling services
  • offer and sell products or services to customers that are appropriate for their circumstances
  • respect new rules to avoid misleading customers or applying undue pressure on customers when selling them products and service

À compter du 30 juin 2022, les banques seront tenues d’envoyer des alertes électroniques à leurs clients afin de les aider à gérer leurs finances et à éviter de payer inutilement des frais, ce que certaines ont déjà commencé à faire. Ces alertes font partie des mesures de protection nouvelles ou améliorées prévues dans le Cadre de protection des consommateurs de produits et services financiers du Canada (le Cadre) qui entre en vigueur le 30 juin 2022. 

Pour informer les Canadiens et les Canadiennes à propos des alertes électroniques et de leurs avantages, l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (ACFC) a publié de nouveaux renseignements à ce sujet pour les consommateurs. Elle a également créé une infographie et préparé du contenu pour les réseaux sociaux que vous pouvez utiliser dans vos propres comptes de médias sociaux.  

En vertu des dispositions du Cadre, les banques seront tenues :  

  • de communiquer aux consommateurs des renseignements importants pour les aider à prendre des décisions éclairées en temps opportun;
  • de fournir à leurs clients des services plus rapides de traitement des plaintes;
  • de veiller à ce que les produits et services qu’elles offrent ou vendent à leurs clients leur conviennent, compte tenu de leur situation;
  • de respecter de nouvelles règles de protection des consommateurs afin d’éviter de leur fournir des renseignements trompeurs ou d’exercer des pressions indues sur eux lorsqu’elles leur offrent ou leur vendent des produits et services.



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Understanding Systems: The 2021 report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

Canada’s National Advisory Council on Poverty’s second Annual Report, Understanding Systems, is the first report to provide a glimpse into poverty since COVID-19.

Based on community engagements with Canadians and provinces/territories over the last year, the Council has recommended five broad strategies to reduce poverty in Canada.

The pillars of the strategy are as follows:

  1. Indigenous prosperity
  2. Equity
  3. Dignity
  4. Prevention and early intervention
  5. Income from employment and government benefits

In a recent webinar, three Council members shared what strategies can make the greatest impact. Read more to learn about the key takeaways from the discussion.



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Investor readiness quiz

Investing is an important part of planning for a financially secure future. It can battle the effects of inflation on your savings, grow your wealth, and provide sources of income in retirement. The sooner you invest, the longer compound interest can work to grow your savings exponentially. However, there are some important milestones to achieve and questions to consider before you start investing. 

Are you ready to invest? Take this quiz to find out!



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Community volunteer income tax program (CVITP)

Need help filing your taxes? You may be able to avail of the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program. 

The Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) has existed since 1971 and is a longstanding partnership between the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), and community organizations and their volunteers.

Tax clinic volunteers complete tax and benefit returns for eligible individuals to ensure they receive, or continue to receive, their entitled benefit payments. In Québec, volunteers prepare both the federal and provincial tax return.

The CVITP service is offered free of charge to everyone who meets the eligibility criteria, and includes doing taxes for the current and previous years.

For the 2022 tax season, community organizations are hosting free in-person and virtual tax clinics.



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Pay down debt or invest tool

If you have extra money, this calculator helps you decide whether to invest or pay off debt.



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Fraud Prevention Toolkits

In 2021, losses reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre reached an all time high of 379 million with Canadian losses accounting for 275 million of this. Fraud Prevention Month is a campaign held each March to inform and educate the public on protecting yourself from being a victim of fraud. 

This year's theme is impersonation, and focuses on scams where fraudsters will claim to be government official, critical infrastructure companies, and even law enforcement officials. 

This collection of fraud prevention toolkits is available in English and French.

In English:

Show me the fraud

Seniors

Middle Agers

Young Adults

Businesses

En Français:

Montre-moi la fraude

Aînés

Personnes d’âge moyen

Jeunes Adultes

Entreprises



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Banking for newcomers to Canada

Banks offer extensive information on how newcomers to Canada can get started in their new country, including checklists, information, financial services and advice.

The Canadian Bankers Association has compiled some basic information to get you started including an infographic with features of the Canadian banking system. 



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How income tax works

Filing your taxes might be one of the most important financial actions you’ll take each year. It can also feel confusing or stressful at times. 

Find out more about how income tax works, including tax deductions and tax credits using the Ontario Securities Commission's interactive chart to see what tax bracket you are in.



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Making more purchases online? Beware of fake websites and phony retailer apps

Many of us have shifted some of our shopping online during the pandemic – it’s easy and very often you can have items delivered right to your door. Criminals are taking advantage of the increased popularity of online shopping by creating fake websites and apps that look authentic but are just a ploy to steal your personal information.

The Canadian Banker's Association helps you identify fake websites and apps and shares tips on how to protect yourself while shopping online and what to do if you are a victim of an online shopping scam. 



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Household food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study presents data on levels of household food insecurity in the 10 provinces from the September to December 2020 cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey. In this survey, household food security status within the previous 12 months was measured using a scale that has been routinely used to monitor levels of household food insecurity in Canada. This provided the ability to draw comparisons with pre-pandemic levels.

Both before and during the pandemic, certain population groups were more vulnerable to food insecurity in their household. They included people with lower levels of education, those who rent their dwelling, those in lone-parent-led households and those in households reliant on social assistance as their primary source of income. Compared with the pre-pandemic period of 2017/2018, levels of household food insecurity were either unchanged or slightly lower in fall 2020 among groups vulnerable to food insecurity.



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Dimensions of poverty hub

Statistics Canada has created an "Opportunity for All"; a dashboard of 12 indicators to track progress on deep income poverty as well as the aspects of poverty other than income, including indicators of material deprivation, lack of opportunity and resilience.

These indicators are broadly grouped into three categories: dignity, opportunity and inclusion and resilience and security. 

 



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Singles in deep poverty neglected by pandemic supports

In 2020, the federal government spent over $160 billion on COVID-19 pandemic response measures. These expenses were critical in supporting recently unemployed workers and affected businesses in a time of uncertainty. However, supports through programs like the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) were not extended to those who had less attachment to the labour market, such as a large proportion of social assistance recipients.

This pattern of exclusion has continued with the more recent Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit, which was created to support workers affected by new pandemic-related shutdowns, and not people who were already living in deep poverty before the pandemic.

The pandemic benefits are intended to support people during a specific time of crisis — but what about those who have been living with low and insecure incomes for decades? This report analyzes the welfare incomes of 53 example households, divided into four types, focusing here on unattached singles considered employable, as they are the most likely to be living in poverty.



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RESPs and education incentives for children in care – toolkit for public primary caregivers




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Canada learning bond for 18 to 20 year olds

The Canada Learning Bond is money that the Government of Canada adds to a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) to help pay the costs of full- or part-time studies after high school. If you are eligible for the Canada Learning Bond and have not already received it in an RESP, you will receive $500 deposited into your RESP, plus an additional $100 for every subsequent year that you were eligible, up to the age of 15. This money can help cover the costs of tuition, books, tools, transportation, and housing. You do not need to put any money into the RESP to receive the Canada Learning Bond.

This single page insert tells you everything you need to know to apply for the Canada learning bond. 

Disponible en Français.



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How financial empowerment services are helping Ontarians build financial health




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Learn the 101 of financial literacy




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How women can save more money

This webinar hosted by FCAC (originally broadcast on November 17, 2021) targets women who want to learn more about managing money and building saving habits.

Guest speaker, personal financial expert, Rubina Ahmed-Haq has also contributed to Canada's financial literacy blog on "Women face unique money challenges".

Helpful links related to the content matter in this video:

Budget Planner

Getting help from a credit counsellor

Choosing a financial advisor

 



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Tools for 2022: Tamarack’s Top 10 Resources Published in 2021

The Tamarack Institute develops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across Canada and beyond. Our belief is that when we are effective in strengthening community capacity to engage citizens, lead collaboratively, deepen community and end poverty, our work contributes to the building of peace and a more equitable society.

This toolkit contains the top ten resources they published in 2021 including: index of community engagement techniques, the community engagement planning canvas, a guide for community-based COVID recovery, a guide for engaging people with lived and living experience, asset-based community development, a guide for advancing the sustainable development goals in your community and much more. 



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Global Learning Partners: Connecting Virtually: A Toolkit for Success




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Eyeing the ID: Bio-metric Banking for Saint John

NB Social Pediatrics and the Saint John Community Loan Fund recently surveyed 157 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents about their experiences with finances, banking, and ID to better understand if biometrics or ID banks could be effective solutions for people living without ID.

 Eyeing the ID: Bio-metric Banking for Saint John identifies access to identification, as well as stringent identification requirements as the most prevalent barriers to receiving services in the community and were also inherently linked to other barriers, such as housing and finances. For example, lack of address was identified as a barrier to accessing an ID because government agencies require a mailing address to send ID documents to customers, but lack of ID is also directly linked to precarious housing because you often need ID to be placed on local subsidized housing lists, and to set up power and utilities. Cyclical barriers to services could be improved by addressing ID requirements and making ID more accessible.

The top three solutions identified to mitigate ID barriers were biometrics, ID banks, and an ID acquisition service.

Also available in French: Un regard sur l’identification : Services bancaires à identification biométrique à Saint John

 



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Momentum Courses and Trainings

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Ethnography of vulnerable newcomers’ experiences with taxes and benefits

This report presents the findings of an ethnographic research project undertaken by researchers at the Accelerated Business Solutions Lab (ABSL) at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). It is the second of a series of ethnographic reports on the experiences of vulnerable populations. The objective of this study is to develop the CRA’s understanding of newcomers’ experiences as they first encounter the Canadian tax and benefit system. These findings illuminate potential directions for improving tax and benefit information and services available for newcomers.



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Helping low-income clients retire successfully- Free Course

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The Role of Credit Unions in Providing Alternatives to Payday Lending

High levels of household indebtedness in Canada has been a concern for policymakers at all levels of government over the past decade. As the economic costs of COVID-19 grow, household indebtedness becomes a faster growing and increasingly more serious concern.
 
While responsive government policy, such as the federal government’s Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), has curbed some short-term impacts on indebtedness, the program was developed to fill a temporary gap. The most vulnerable households are low-income households with limited access to credit, who frequently turn to high cost payday lending for financial relief. While regulations on the payday lending industry have increased substantially, low-income Canadian households remain left with few, if any, practical alternatives.
 
The low-income households in greatest need of alternatives are the financially excluded, specifically the underbanked and the unbanked.
 
At the same time, it is important to recognize that not all payday loan clients are in low-income households. A 2016 report by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada states that close to 40% of payday loan borrowers have household income of $55,000 or greater and 20% having income of $80,000 or greater.
 
Thus, payday loan borrowers are not a homogeneous group.
 
Some Canadian credit unions have developed payday loan alternatives for the financially excluded, however, these more reasonably priced loans are only accessed by a very small portion of would-be payday loan clients.
 
The objective of this research is to review the alternative payday loan products currently offered by Canadian credit unions, to identify the barriers to offering more payday loan alternatives, and to make recommendations to expand the offerings.



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Welfare in Canada, 2020

Maytree released the 2020 edition of the Welfare in Canada report. For each province and territory, this report provides data and analysis on the total welfare income that households receiving social assistance would have qualified for in 2020, including COVID-19 pandemic-related supports.

Welfare in Canada is a series that presents the total incomes of four example households who qualify for social assistance benefits in each of Canada’s provinces and territories in a given year.

Welfare in Canada, 2020 looks at the maximum total amount that a household would have received over the course of the 2020 calendar year, assuming they had no other source of income and no assets. Some households may have received less if they had income from other sources, while some households may have received more if they had special health- or disability-related needs.

The report looks at:

  • Social assistance program eligibility tests for assets and earned income;
  • How welfare incomes vary across Canada;
  • The components of welfare incomes in each province and territory;
  • Long-term changes in welfare incomes in each province and territory; and
  • The adequacy of welfare incomes in each province compared to poverty and low-income thresholds.

In addition, this year the report includes a new section that looks at the adequacy of welfare incomes in each province over time, an analysis that hearkens back to past reports prepared by the National Council of Welfare. Also, please note that this report measures the adequacy of welfare incomes relative to both the Market Basket Measure (MBM) – Canada’s Official Poverty Line – and the Deep Income Poverty threshold (MBM-DIP), which is equivalent to 75 per cent of the MBM. This analysis will replace the low-income threshold comparisons in future reports. We hope these additions will be helpful for those using the report.

In each jurisdiction, the total welfare income for which a household is eligible depends on its specific composition. For illustrative purposes, this resource focuses on the welfare incomes of four example household types:

  1. Unattached single considered employable;
  2. Unattached single with a disability;
  3. Single parent with one child, age two; and
  4. Couple with two children, ages ten and 15.



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Learn about your taxes (free CRA online course)

A free online course to learn about personal income taxes in Canada, developed by the Canada Revenue Agency.

Contents include:

  1. Starting to work: Why you need a social insurance number (SIN), when to fill out a TD1 form, and what’s on your pay stub and T4 slip.
  2. Preparing to do your taxes: Find out what you’ll need to know before doing your taxes and the different ways to do them.
  3. Completing a basic tax return: An introduction to a basic income tax and benefit return. What you need to report, how to claim deductions and tax credits, and finding out whether you will get a refund or owe tax.

Additional resources for teachers and facilitators are available.

 



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Money Mentors’ free financial education programs

Money Mentors’ free online courses are available to everyone. The 1-2 hour narrated courses make it easy to learn at your own pace. These online courses provide the same great content as our in-person presentations, but at the touch of a finger.

They cover a variety of topics including budgeting, debt, credit, fraud, life events and one course even focuses on managing money and understanding credit for high school students. 

Read more about Money Mentors' free financial literacy presentations to provide K-12 students with money concepts and skills here.



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Gathering a Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation


This guide brought together by the Indigenous Learning Circle (ILC) in Winnipeg's North End details how to conduct an Indigenous-grounded evaluation process. While not a comprehensive guide to complete an evaluation, the Bundle builds upon what is understood about evaluation and provides a guide that can be used in planning, designing, implementing and reporting based upon Indigenous values and principles.  The Bundle provides a common understanding of the purpose of evaluation; how it can be beneficial for community; and Indig­enous principles, values, considerations, and methods that could be used in the design and implementation of evaluation. It can be used by community organizations and staff to understand evaluation and increase communi­ty members’ capacity to actively participate in evaluation efforts in their programs and organ­izations.




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ABLE 2021: Virtual Fall Series

Resources

Opening and Welcome

ABLE 2021: Opening and Welcome Helen Bobiwash, FCPA, FCMA, CAFM – YouTube

Session: Tackling pandemic hardship: The financial impact of COVID-19 on low-income households

Tackling pandemic hardship: The financial impact of COVID-19 on low-income households – YouTube

Download summary and detailed reports: The financial resilience and financial well-being of Canadians with low incomes: insights and analysis to support the financial empowerment sector

Download slide deck: The differential impact of the pandemic on low income families

Booth Chats: Big ideas for a more equitable recovery

Resolve Financial and Credit Counselling

Video Pitch: Booth chat: Jeri Bittorf, Resolve Financial and Credit Counselling Services Coordinator – YouTube

Slide Deck: K3C Credit Counselling (ablefinancialempowerment.org)

Seniors Financial Empowerment Network

Video Pitch: Booth Chat: Sarah Ramsey, City of Edmonton, Community Development Social Worker – YouTube

Seneca College

Video Pitch: Booth Chat: Varinder Gill, Seneca College, Professor & Program Co-ordinator – YouTube

Slide Deck: Innovations in Tax Filing: Study of Barriers Faced by Low Income People and Finding Potential Solutions (ablefinancialempowerment.org)

Prosper Canada: Integrating Financial Empowerment into Ontario Works

Video Pitch: Booth Chat: Ana Fremont, Prosper Canada Manager, Program Delivery and Integration – YouTube

Slide Deck: Thunder Bay Financial Empowerment Integration (ablefinancialempowerment.org)

Prosper Canada: Prosperity Gateways – Cities for Financial Empowerment, Toronto Public Library

Video Pitch: Booth Chat: John Stephenson, Manager, Program Delivery and Integration – YouTube

Slide Deck: PowerPoint Presentation (ablefinancialempowerment.org)

Session: Measuring the divide: Has COVID-19 widened economic disparities for Canada’s BIPOC communities

View session recording

Download slide deck: Income Support During COVID-19and ongoing challenges

Download slide deck: Re thinking income adequacy in the COVID-19 recovery

Session: Financial wellness and healing: Can building financial wellness help Indigenous communities?

Session recording: Financial wellness and healing: Can building financial wellness help Indigenous communities? – YouTube

Download slide deck: Indigenous Financial Literacy: Behaviour Insights from an Indigenous Perspective

Download slide deck: Financial wellness and Indigenous Healing

Session: When money meets race: Addressing systemic racism through financial empowerment

Session Recording: Financial wellness and healing: Can building financial wellness help Indigenous communities? – YouTube

Download slide deck: When Money Meets Race: Addressing Systematic Racism Through Financial Empowerment

Session: Tous ensemble maintenant : Rétablissement de la santé financière de la population canadienne : l’affaire de tous les secteurs/ All together now: How all sectors have a role to play in rebuilding Canadians’ financial health

Session: All together now: How all sectors have a role to play in rebuilding Canadians’ financial health – YouTube

Session: When opportunity knocks: Poverty, disability, and Canada’s proposed new disability benefit

Session recording unavailable

Download slide deck: When Opportunity Knocks: Disability without Poverty

Session: The good, the bad and the innovation: The pandemic redesign of tax filing and benefit assistance

View the session recording

Closing remarks from Adam Fair, Vice President, Strategy and Impact, Prosper Canada; Helen Bobiwash

View Recording

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The Comeback Generation: Pandemic is inspiring Gen Z to build financial resilience

The coronavirus pandemic has tested the limits of Canadians over the past 20 months. What began as a health crisis quickly morphed into an economic crisis, with the spread of COVID‑19 shocking large segments of the economy and leaving many without paycheques. While no generation has been unaffected by the pandemic, the economic impact was distributed unevenly. Many younger Canadians in Generation Z, or Gen Z, have had their education disrupted, career plans changed, and financial prospects diminished largely because they are overrepresented in the highly affected service sector, according to a new survey by the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA).

The survey was published to mark Financial Literacy Month, which takes place each November, and found that more than half (53 per cent) of Gen Z respondents (aged 18‑25) felt the pandemic upended their financial security, with that number rising to 73 per cent for those in less stable financial situations. At the same time, nine‑in‑ten (88 per cent) Gen Zers are feeling optimistic about their financial futures, and nearly all of them (98 per cent) are actively making plans to strengthen their financial resilience.

"Gen Z was dealt a disproportionately tough hand during the pandemic, but it has also shown incredible resilience in channeling its natural gifts for perseverance, adaptability and motivation," says Neil Parmenter, President and CEO, Canadian Bankers Association. "Despite the setbacks, younger Canadians are eager to forge ahead, be prepared for the unexpected and build bright futures as our economy recovers."



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Who Doesn’t File a Tax Return? A Portrait of Non-Filers

The Canada Revenue Agency administers dozens of cash transfer programs that require an annual personal income tax return to establish eligibility. Approximately 10–12 percent of Canadians, however, do not file a return; as a result, they will not receive the benefits for which they are otherwise eligible.

In this article, we provide the first estimates of the number and characteristics of non-filers. We also estimate that the value of cash benefits lost to working-age non-filers was $1.7 billion in 2015. Previous literature suggests either a rational choice model of tax compliance (in which the costs of filing are weighed against its benefits) or a more complex behavioural model.

Our study has important consequences for policy-making in terms of the administrative design and fiscal costs of public cash benefits attached to tax filing, the measurement of household incomes, and poverty rates.



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Debt got you down?

The CBA partnered with Credit Counselling Canada, an association of accredited non-profit credit counselling agencies, to offer the Debt and Money Quiz. 

The online tool helps Canadians assess their financial health and provides recommendations to help those who are struggling financially. 

Take a short “Yes” or “No” quiz to find out if you need support managing money and debt. See how you compare with other quiz respondents.



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Pilot Study: Buy Now, Pay Later Services in Canada




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The Financial Resilience and Financial Well-Being of Canadians with Low Incomes (republished January 2024)

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Strengthening Canada’s External Complaint Handling System

Canada’s external complaint handing structures and processes play a critical role in levelling the playing field for consumers and financial service providers, helping to offset the inevitable imbalance of power between large financial institutions and individual consumers. Prosper Canada welcomes the opportunity to provide recommendations for strengthening what is currently a weak and inadequate alternative dispute resolution system.



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National Financial Empowerment Champions Project: Summary Report




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Encouraging tax filing at virtual clinics

In 2020, The Behavioural Insights Team partnered with United Way and Oak Park Neighbourhood Centre to develop and test an email intervention to increase participation in tax filing clinics. An "active choice" email (sample email) significantly increased response rate and attendance to virtual clinics.



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Asset resilience of Canadians, 2019

Canadians were more asset resilient just prior to the pandemic than they were at the turn of the millennium. That resilience continues to be tested as we enter the second year of the pandemic.

For the purposes of this article, a household is asset resilient when it has liquid assets that are at least equal to the after-tax, low-income measure (LIM-AT) for three months.

To be deemed asset resilient in 2019, a person living alone would require liquid assets of approximately $6,000. A household of four would require $12,000 or $3,000 per person to meet the minimum LIM-AT threshold for three months.

Recent Statistics Canada data have shown that savings rose sharply during the pandemic, despite the economic upheaval, and that those in the lower income quintiles have seen their income rise as a result of government support programs, such as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB).

Although the data in this release predate the pandemic, they provide an important benchmark to monitor the economic well-being of Canadian households during a time of unprecedented change.



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A statistical portrait of Canada’s diverse LGBTQ2+ communities

Statistics Canada presents a demographic and social profile of Canada's diverse LGBTQ2+ communities based on published analyses. Much of the data in this release focus on LGB Canadians (lesbian, gay, bisexual), since Statistics Canada has been collecting detailed information on these communities since 2003.



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Low-income persistence in Canada and the provinces

Each year, some Canadians fall into low income, while others rise out of it. For example, over one-quarter (28.1%) of Canadians who were in low income in 2017 had exited it by 2018. This study examines the low income exit rate in Canada—an indicator that can be used to track the amount of time it takes for people to rise out of low income. Although a potential surge in low income in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was avoided by temporary government support programs, the rising long-term unemployment rate in 2021 suggests a possible increase in poverty and low-income persistence in the future.



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Increasing education savings for families living on low incomes: An outcome harvest evaluation

Momentum is a changing-making organization located in Calgary, Alberta that works with people living on low incomes and partners in the community to create a thriving local economy for all. In 2008, Momentum launched the StartSmart program to support families living on low incomes to open Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) to access free government education savings incentives such as the Canada Learning Bond (CLB). Momentum subsequently partnered with community agencies and advocated for systems level change in order to reach more families and scale up CLB uptake. 

This report captures the collective efforts and outcomes of Momentum and community partners regarding increasing the Canada Learning Bond (CLB) uptake in Canada, as well as lessons learned.

The report highlights include:

  • Momentum and community partners efforts contributed to more than doubling the CLB uptake rate in Calgary (from 20% to 52%)
  • Through Aspire, Momentum trained over 350 community staff and volunteers from over 80 community agencies to deliver the StartSmart program
  • Policy successes (such as changing social housing rules to accommodate RESP savings) were achieved and some failures (cancellation of the provincial ACES grant) were experienced
  • Policy changes are still required to see significant uptake of the CLB. See Momentum's recent publication Public Policy Options to Better Enable Education Savings by Families on Low Incomes. 



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Partnering for impact: From crisis to opportunity (Case studies of corporate-nonprofit partnerships during COVID-19)

This report delves into one of the community investment trends that emerged during the pandemic: innovative partnerships. This research follows the Wake Up Call study, released in the Fall of 2020, and continues to answer the question of: how can corporate philanthropy do better, and do more?

Answers emerge through nine case studies, representing various initiatives that are either entirely new, have undergone significant change during the pandemic, or have achieved unprecedented growth. Each case study provides invaluable insights for companies looking to achieve greater impact through their partnerships. 

Imagine Canada conducted close to 40 interviews with the individuals involved in the partnerships, complemented by documentary evidence collected in 2020-21. The case studies involve partners from leading companies and social impact organizations, such as Cisco, AstraZeneca, RBC, CanadaHelps, and Second Harvest.  



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Evaluation of the Financial Empowerment and Problem Solving Project: Final Report

The Province of Ontario, through the former Ministry of Community and Social Services (now known as the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS)) entered into a contract with Prosper Canada (PC) in 2015 to fund the Financial Empowerment and Problem Solving (FEPS) pilot project. The FEPS project provided individualized financial counselling to low income program participants along with educational workshops and free tax clinics. An evaluation of the FEPS pilot found that the project exhibited some promising practices and was well received by clients. Building off of the findings from pilot, in 2017 the former Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS) entered into a four-year agreement with PC to fund the program at four delivery sites.



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Evaluation of the Financial Empowerment Champions Project: Final Report

The Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) with funding from Ontario Works (OW) contracted with Prosper Canada (PC) in 2016 to launch the Financial Empowerment Champions (FECs) project. The project intends to build capacity (e.g., embed financial empowerment (FE) interventions) within communities and provide individualized FE services to individuals with low income. This final evaluation report includes the following lines of evidence: linked administrative data from MCCSS (Social Assistance Management System (SAMS)), FECs sites and PC; a pre-service and a postservice survey; and interviews with FECs staff, management and community partner organizations. The evaluation was initiated in August 2017 and the final data was collected in June 2020.



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P4P Planning Network Resource Hub

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The Well-Being and Financial Well-Being of Canadians: financially vulnerable households the most challenged

This brief discusses how more financially vulnerable Canadians are most challenged based on the Seymour Financial Resilience Index TM. This E-Brief builds on Statistics Canada Canadians' Well-being in Year One of the COVID-19 Pandemic report and Seymour’s February 2021 Index Release Summary.



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Make Change that Counts: National Financial Literacy Strategy 2021-2026

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s (FCAC’s) mandate is to protect Canadian financial consumers and strengthen financial literacy. 

The National Strategy is a 5-year plan to create a more accessible, inclusive, and effective financial ecosystem that supports diverse Canadians in meaningful ways. The National Strategy is focused on how financial literacy stakeholders can reduce barriers, catalyze action, and work together, to collectively help Canadians build financial resilience.



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Early Planning Toolkit

A toolkit for parents/caregivers with a child with a disability ages 2 to 10, containing:

  • An everyday childhood action guide
  • Early planning priorities for parents with a child with a disability (upcoming webcast)
  • Accessing financial resources for a young child with a disability (upcoming webcast)
  • Early planning checklist



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Workers receiving payments from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program in 2020

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit program (CERB) was introduced to provide financial support to employees and self-employed workers in Canada who were directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the proportion of 2019 workers who received CERB payments in 2020 by various characteristics. CERB take-up rates are presented by industry, earnings group in 2019, sex, age group and province, as well as for population groups designated as visible minorities, immigrants and Indigenous people. Some factors that help explain differences in take-up rates among these groups of workers are also examined.



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Ganohonyohk (Giving Thanks): Indigenous Prosperity

The Ganohonyohk/Prosperity Research Project explored how seven Indigenous Friendship Centre communities in Ontario understood the concept of prosperity. The guiding research question of “How do urban Indigenous Friendship Centre communities in Ontario view a prosperous/wealthy life?” was used to gauge the meaning of prosperity through a community driven lens.

This strength-based research explores culturally appropriate approaches to urban Indigenous prosperity and considers the role of Friendship Centres in promoting prosperity. It concludes that approaches to Indigenous prosperity need to be context-specific and allow for self-determination in establishing communities’ priorities.



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Household economic well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, experimental estimates, fourth quarter 2020

A highlight of some of the findings reported in this briefing:

  • Disposable income declined for most households in the fourth quarter of 2020, with the largest losses for the lowest-income earners (-10.2%).
  • Compensation of employees—of which wages and salaries make up the largest share—was up in the fourth quarter.
  • The most pronounced wage losses were experienced by the lowest-income (-5.3%) and the youngest (-3.1%) households, as many people in these households work in industries or jobs hard hit by the pandemic.
  • There was a decline in COVID-19-specific support measures and a significant rise in EI benefits in the fourth quarter of 2020.
  • Overall consumption expenditure was down in 2020 compared with 2019.
  • Net saving for many households declined as their disposable income decreased and consumption edged up.
  • The debt-to-income ratio increased the most for households in the lowest income quintile.

 



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The effects of child tax benefits on the income of single mothers

The financial resources available to families with young children are an important factor affecting child development, and they can have long-term impacts on socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood.

This article summarizes the findings of a new study using Statistic Canada’s data and analyzes the effects of expanding child tax benefits on after-tax income among single mothers, in the context of the 2015 reform to the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) and the 2016 introduction of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB).



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Gender differences in employment one year into the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis by industrial sector and firm size

An important aspect of the impact of COVID-19 is its disproportional impact across gender. This Insights article proposes a year-over-year approach that compares employment from March 2020 to February 2021 to their March-2019-to-February-2020 counterparts. It uses the Labour Force Survey to study gender gaps patterns in employment by industrial sector (goods or services) and firm size.



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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity growth in Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how production occurs in the economy in two ways. One is the full or partial closure of non-essential activities such as travel, hospitality, arts and entertainment, personal services, airlines, etc. The other is the widespread shift from in-office work to working from home. This Insights article depicts labour productivity growth in Canada and its sources by industry during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to examine the implications these changes may have had on the productivity performance of the economy.



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Food Insecurity amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Food Charity, Government Assistance, and Employment

To mitigate the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal government has implemented several financial assistance programs, including unprecedented funding to food charities. Using the Canadian Perspectives Survey Series 2, the demographic, employment, and behavioural characteristics associated with food insecurity in April–May 2020 was examined. One-quarter of job-insecure individuals experienced food insecurity that was strongly associated with pandemic-related disruptions to employment income, major financial hardship, and use of food charity was found, yet the vast majority of food-insecure households did not report receiving any charitable food assistance. Increased financial support for low-income households would reduce food insecurity and mitigate negative repercussions of the pandemic.



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Economic impact of COVID-19 among Indigenous people

This article uses data from a recent crowdsourcing data initiative to report on the employment and financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Indigenous participants. It also examines the extent to which Indigenous participants applied for and received federal income support to alleviate these impacts. As Canada gradually enters a recovery phase, the article concludes by reporting on levels of trust among Indigenous participants on decisions to reopen workplaces and public spaces.



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National Indigenous History Month 2021

In June, we commemorate National Indigenous History Month 2021 to recognize the history, heritage and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.

The Crow-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada website contains resources on Indigenous history, promotional and educational materials, and information on how the Government of Canada is responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action.



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Designing a remote financial help service

Resources

Project reports, journey maps, and toolkit

Reports
These slide decks describe the goals and outcomes of this project.
Socialization deck: Supporting the design of a remote financial help service (Bridgeable)

Client Journey maps
These journey maps offer a visual explanation of the process used by the 3 participating community agencies offering one-on-one client support.
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
SEED Winnipeg
Thunder Bay Counselling

Toolkit
This toolkit was developed in collaboration with community partners, and shares tools for coaches and clients in the virtual one-on-one process.
Virtual service delivery tools (Toolkit)

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Living your retirement

These resources from the Ontario Securities Commission are oriented towards planning for retirement. Resources include tips on insurance planning, government benefits, RRSP calculator, and more. 

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ABLE 2021: Virtual Series

Resources

Webinar (May 19th): Self-care for practitioners - strategies and challenges

Read the presentation slides for ‘Self care for frontline practitioners’.
Watch the video recording for ‘Self care for frontline practitioners’
Handout: Implementing a practice of self-care

Connect and Share (May 27th): Self-care strategies

Read the slides for this meetup event.
Download the self-care action plan worksheet.

Webinar (June 9, 2021): Virtual one-on-one client support

Read the slides for the ‘Virtual one-on-one client support’ webinar.
Watch the video recording for ‘Virtual one-on-one client support’

Download the handouts:
Client tool: Information to remember
Tip sheet: Supporting client intake, triage, and referral in virtual financial help services
Financial coaching at a distance: Tips for practitioners

Connect and Share (June 17, 2021): Tax-time debrief

Read the slides for ‘Connect and Share: Tax time debrief’.
View additional resources in Prosper Canada’s Tax filing toolkit.

Workshop (June 21, 2001): Beyond bubble baths - self-care during a pandemic

Workshop slides: Beyond bubble baths – self-care during a pandemic
Handout: Beyond bubble baths – Self-care during a pandemic

Resources shared during session:
Native-land.ca
Indigenous languages list in British Columbia
Self-compassion.org
Tara Brach mindfulness resources
Headspace
Boho beautiful guided meditations

Webinar (June 23, 2021): Diversity and inclusion - A conversation with SEED Winnipeg

Watch the video recording for ‘Steps to more equitable and inclusive programming’
Read the slides for ‘Steps to more equitable and inclusive programming’
Handout: Indigenous Inclusion resources

Workshop (June 24, 2021): Visualizing client experiences - Using journey maps

Workshop slides: Visualizing client experiences
Handout: More resources for using journey maps

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Introduction to Indigenous Peoples’ cultures online course

This free, on-demand, introductory course provides learners with insight into the history of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples; an understanding of the devastation of colonialism on Indigenous communities and economies from an Indigenous perspective and how it is critical to reconciliation; and how culturally sensitive health care models help inform how accounting and finance education can be inclusive and supportive.

This course was developed to provide the writers and facilitators of CPA education programs, cases and examinations with insight, knowledge and skills to better understand the perspectives of Indigenous students, to help support their success. It will provide all learners with a valuable introduction into the deep cultural and historical foundations upon which the future prosperity of Indigenous communities must be built.

 



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Federal Spending on First Nations and Inuit Health Care

An analysis of provincial/territorial health care funding and funding for First Nations and Inuit by Indigenous Services Canada through the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.

This report provides an analytical overview of federal and provincial/territorial government health spending for the First Nations and Inuit population.



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A labour market snapshot of South Asian, Chinese and Filipino Canadians during the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the varying labour market experiences and outcomes of diverse groups of Canadians.

To mark Asian Heritage Month, Statistics Canada is providing a profile of the employment characteristics of the three largest Asian populations in Canada: South Asian, Chinese and Filipino Canadians.

Results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) show that South Asian men are much more likely to be employed than South Asian women, that Chinese Canadians have higher average hourly wages than other visible minority groups, and that Filipino women have among the highest employment rates of all groups, with many working on the front line in the health care sector during the pandemic.

Unless otherwise stated, all data in this article reflect the population aged 15 to 69 during the three months ending in April 2021, and are not seasonally adjusted.



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Labour Force Survey, April 2021

April Labour Force Survey (LFS) data reflect labour market conditions during the week of April 11 to 17.



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The Wealth of Unattached Men and Women Aged 50 and Older, 1999 to 2016

The evolution of the wealth, assets and debts of various groups of Canadians since the late 1990s has been documented in several studies. Yet little is known about the evolution of the wealth holdings of unattached men and women aged 50 and older, who make up a large part of the population. This study assesses how the wealth holdings of unattached men and women aged 50 and older evolved from 1999 to 2016 using data from the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, 2005, 2012 and 2016, and fills this information gap.



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Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

This report looks at how the dispossession of Indigenous lands nearly destroyed Indigenous economic livelihoods and discusses restitution from the perspective of stolen wealth.



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San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training

Cultural safety is about fostering a climate where the unique history of Indigenous peoples is recognized and respected in order to provide appropriate care and services in an equitable and safe way, without discrimination.

This website includes information about the San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program delivered by the Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia.



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National Housing Strategy

The National Housing Strategy is a 10-year, $70+ billion plan creating a new generation of housing in Canada giving more Canadians a place to call home.



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Trans PULSE Canada COVID Data Dashboard

In September – October 2020, the Trans PULSE Canada study team conducted the COVID Cohort to assess the social, economic, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on trans and non-binary people in Canada. 

This dashboard serves as an interactive tool for community members and researchers to explore key findings from the Trans PULSE Canada COVID survey, and to break down the results by one or more socio-demographic characteristics. The proportions in the dashboard are weighted to represent the 2019 Trans PULSE Canada sample.



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Report – Social and economic impacts of COVID-19 on transgender and non-binary people in Canada

A survey led by researchers at Western University explores the experiences of trans and non-binary Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial research from the Trans PULSE Canada survey highlighted that many trans and non-binary Canadians will avoid seeking necessary health care because of a fear of discrimination. The survey findings also show that trans and non-binary Canadians had disruptions in primary health care, mental health care and gender-affirming care during the pandemic, and a high frequency of interruptions to hormone regimens. They also found that twice as many trans and non-binary people reported that they stopped accessing mental health support than those who started accessing support. The team also looked at the social and economic impacts of the pandemic and found that a majority of trans and non-binary people in Canada are experiencing negative financial and social impacts of COVID-19. Almost 60 per cent of respondents said they their access to trans and non-binary social spaces has decreased.



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Canada’s Charities & Nonprofits

This infographic shows the size, scope, and economic contribution of charities and nonprofits across Canada.



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Non-Profit Organizations and Volunteering Satellite Account: Human Resources Module, 2010 to 2019

In 2019, non-profit organizations (NPOs)—serving households, businesses and governments—employed 2.5 million people, representing 12.8% of all jobs in Canada. The employment share ranged between 12.4% and 12.8%, increasing during the 2010-to-2019 period.

While the economic and social landscape of Canada is very different at the time of this release than it was in 2019, these data provide a valuable baseline to better understand the potential impacts of COVID-19 in later reference years.



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Self-care for frontline practitioners: Challenges and Strategies

Resources

Handouts, slides, and time-stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar.

Click ‘Get it’ above for video link for this webinar.

Handout: Implementing a practice of self-care

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Nurturing Supporting Relationships: The Foundation to a Secure Future

This handbook provides a guide for actions to take when nurturing supporting relationships for people living with a disability.



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Employment Insurance, February 2021

February Employment Insurance (EI) statistics reflect labour market conditions as of the week of February 14 to 20.

Ahead of the February reference week, non-essential businesses, cultural and recreation facilities, and in-person dining reopened in many provinces, subject to capacity limits and various other public health requirements. Public health measures were relaxed in Quebec, Alberta, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on February 8, although a curfew remained in effect in Quebec. Measures were loosened in many regions of Ontario on February 10 and 15, although stay-at-home orders remained in place in the health regions of Toronto, Peel, York and North Bay Parry Sound. In Manitoba, various measures were eased on February 12. In contrast, Newfoundland and Labrador reintroduced a lockdown on February 12, requiring the widespread closure of non-essential businesses and services.



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A snapshot: Status First Nations people in Canada

This is a custom report produced in collaboration between the Assembly of First Nations and Statistics Canada. It includes a variety of social and economic statistics for Status First Nations people living on and off reserve and includes comparisons with the non-Indigenous population.



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Get Smarter About Money: Financial Literacy 101 videos

GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca is an Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) website that provides unbiased and independent financial tools to help you make better financial decisions. This series of videos covers different financial literacy topics., including:

  • What is an RRSP?
  • What is a TFSA?
  • What is a mutual fund?
  • Why open an RRSP?
  • What is an RESP?

 



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Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing

This report examines Indigenous housing in urban, rural, and northern areas, an expression which is taken to refer to Indigenous housing in all areas of Canada other than on reserves. This report is intended to provide an analysis of unmet Indigenous housing need and homelessness in these areas, and of government spending to address those issues. The report ends with a range
of estimated costs for addressing housing need to various extents under various programs.
This report was prepared at the request of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA).



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Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Montreal “Cultural Communities”

This exploratory study aims to better understand the challenges experienced by members of cultural communities in Montreal, particularly the most disadvantaged groups, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020.



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Disability Tax Credit Tool

The Canadian Disability Tax Credit (DTC) can help reduce the taxes you or someone who supports you owe. It also offers a lot of other great benefits.

To apply for the DTC, your healthcare provider will need to fill out the Disability Tax Credit Certificate (form T2201). This tool is designed to give them the information they need to fill out that form



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Unconnected: Funding Shortfalls, Policy Imbalances and How They Are Contributing to Canada’s Digital Underdevelopment

In an effort to understand the challenges and opportunities facing civil society and community organizations working to improve the quality of Canada’s internet, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) commissioned research firm The Strategic Counsel to conduct a qualitative and quantitative assessment of stakeholder perceptions of the nation’s digital philanthropy landscape.
The research results show that digital development in Canada is underfunded, piecemeal, ad hoc and unorganized despite stakeholders sharing many of the same goals. The research results show that digital development in Canada is underfunded, piecemeal, ad hoc and unorganized despite stakeholders sharing many of the same goals – the connecting of Canadians to the internet in an affordable and reliable manner so that they can comfortably and knowledgeably participate in an increasingly digital economy and society. The research also found that these goals and the challenges surrounding them have only become more pressing with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global crisis that has pushed nearly every aspect of our daily lives online.



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Barriers to Digital Equality in Canada

Internet is an essential service. As technology increasingly shapes our world, it is important that Canadians can keep up with the rapid changes, latest skills and emerging industries. Unfortunately, not every resident of Canada is able to access these opportunities to unlock a potentially brighter future.

AIC and ACORN partnered to undertake research with low and moderate income Canadians, in order to uncover the barriers to digital equity that exist in Canada today and shine a light on the urgent need to tackle these barriers to ensure equal access to digital opportunities.



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National Report on High Interest Loans

ACORN Canada undertook a study focusing on high interest loans, especially when taken online. For the purpose of the study, high interest loans were defined as loans such as payday loans, installment loans, title loans etc. that are taken from companies/institutions that are not regular banks or credit unions.

The study was conducted to examine the experience of lower-income consumers in the increasingly available online high-cost credit markets.

The study was divided into three phases - conducting a literature review and webscan which was undertaken by Prosper Canada; legislative scan to understand the regulatory framework; and a national survey to capture experiences of people who have taken high interest loans, especially online.



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Ongoing Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Charitable Sector

While most charities have been able to adapt and innovate to continue to offer services and programs to their communities since the onset of the pandemic, the situation remains challenging. For the vast majority of organizations, the constraints and uncertainty of the pandemic, paired with social distancing mandates, are driving significant shifts to organizational priorities. Nearly a year since the onset of the pandemic, the COVID-19 crisis continues to have a significant impact on demand, capacity, and revenue, and is influencing staffing decisions and volunteer contributions.

The crisis is dramatically changing how many organizations operate. Findings from Imagine Canada's second COVID-19 Sector Monitor study show the ongoing effects of the pandemic on the charitable sector.  



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OpportuNext (career transition online tool)

OpportuNext from The Conference Board of Canada is a free-to-use career tool created in partnership with the Future Skills Centre. The tool can be used by anyone looking to plan a career path with a similar skillset or for anyone providing employment services.



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The relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and people in poverty: Exploring the impact scale and potential policy responses

This research project aims to identify the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and poverty in Vancouver, by analyzing how the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed people into poverty and the impact of COVID-19 on people already living in poverty. Several examples of COVID-19 recovery policies and projects being implemented elsewhere that could support people experiencing poverty in Vancouver are also provided.



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Control, Sufficiency, and Social Support Lessons from Low-income Canadians about Financial Wellbeing

This report examines how diary participants achieve the financial wellbeing that they have. The evidence we found is that low-income people work very hard to manage their finances. They endeavor to control their finances so that, as one participant said, their finances don’t control them. They must prioritize needs and wants because there is not enough for both. One participant talked about her goal of having a ‘little bit more’ than her needs so that there was a little extra for savings or small purchases or trips. Finally, we saw that family and friends are terribly important for achieving financial wellbeing because social supports can provide loans, gifts, and emotional support. Having a low-income means that banks offer few financial supports. Of course, family and friends also make demands.

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The Differential Impact of the Pandemic and Recession on Family Finances

This report summarizes the results of a follow-up survey with nineteen low- and modest-middle income Winnipeggers, undertaken in June through September 2020. These respondents were drawn from the 29 Canadian Financial Diaries (CFD) participants who completed a year-long diary in 2019. The results of the survey illustrate that low- and moderate-income earners are feeling stressed with increased expenses and uncertainty about future economic stability.

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Proposals for a Northern Market Basket Measure and its disposable income

As stated in the Poverty Reduction Act, the Market Basket Measure (MBM) is now Canada’s Official Poverty Line. The Northern Market Basket Measure (MBM-N) is an adaptation of the MBM that reflects life and conditions in two of the territories – Yukon and Northwest TerritoriesNote. As with the MBM, the MBM-N is comprised of five major components: food, clothing, transportation, shelter and other necessities. The MBM-N is intended to capture the spirit of the existing MBM (i.e., represent a modest, basic standard of living) while accounting for adjustments to the contents of the MBM to reflect life in the North.

This discussion paper describes a proposed methodology for the five components found in the MBM-N, as well as its disposable income. This discussion paper also provides an opportunity for feedback and comments on the proposed methodology of the MBM-N.



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Investing and The COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey of Canadian Investors

The Investor Office conducted this study to further our understanding of the experiences and behaviours of retail investors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The study explored several topics including the financial preparedness, savings behaviour, financial situations, changing preference, and trading activity of retail investors. Key findings include that 32 per cent of investors have experienced a decline in their financial situation during the pandemic while 16 per cent have experienced an improvement. Half of investors have not done any trading during the pandemic, but of those who have been trading, 63 per cent have increased their holdings.



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Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Women: Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been profound and far-reaching. Beyond endangering the health of Canadians, the pandemic has worsened inequalities among groups of people. Women, girls and gender-diverse people have faced unique challenges during the pandemic.

The Committee recommends that the Government of Canada take various actions to assist women, girls and gender-diverse people during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Many recommendations relate to improving women’s health and labour force participation. Some recommendations focus specifically on women’s paid and unpaid care work. The Committee also recommends interventions to help reduce trafficking and violence against women.



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Budget 2021: A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience

The federal budget released on April 19, 2021 covers the Canadian government's plan for:

  • Part 1 - Finishing the Fight Against COVID-19
    • Chapter 1: Keeping Canadians Healthy and Safe
    • Chapter 2: Seeing Canadians and Businesses Through to Recovery
  • Part 2 - Creating Jobs and Growth
    • Chapter 3: New Opportunities for Canadians
    • Chapter 4: Helping Canadian Businesses Grow and Succeed
    • Chapter 5: A Healthy Environment for a Healthy Economy
    • Chapter 6: Strengthening the Cities and Communities We Call Home
  • Part 3 - A Resilient and Inclusive Recovery
    • Chapter 7: A More Equal Canada
    • Chapter 8: Strong Indigenous Communities
    • Chapter 9: Protecting Our Shared Values
  • Part 4 - Fair and Responsible Government
    • Chapter 10: Responsible Government



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Canadians’ Well-being in Year One of the COVID-19 Pandemic




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Financial Relief Navigator

The Financial Relief Navigator is an online tool that can help you find support to raise your income or lower your expenses in these challenging times.

The tool will suggest income benefits or other support programs you may be eligible for in your province/territory in Canada. 

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Measuring Health Equity: Demographic Data Collection in Health Care

The Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (Toronto Central LHIN) provided financial support to establish the Measuring Health Equity Project and has called for recommendations on health equity data use and a sustainability approach for future data collection.

This report describes the journey Toronto Central LHIN and Sinai Health System have taken to embed demographic data collection in hospitals and Community Health Centres. It also summarizes the potential impact of embedding demographic data collection into Ontario health-care delivery and planning. And finally, it describes the use of this data, the lessons learned, and provides recommendations for moving forward.



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Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change

There is a growing "colour-coded" inequity and disparity in Ontario that has resulted in an inequality of learning outcomes, of health status, of employment opportunity and income prospects, of life opportunities, and ultimately of life outcomes. Colour of Poverty-Colour of Change believes that it is only by working together that we can make the needed change for all of our shared benefit

These fact sheets provide data to help understand the racialization of poverty in Ontario. 



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2020 Second Annual Report of the Disability Advisory Committee

In November 2017, the Minister of National Revenue, the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, announced the creation of the Disability Advisory Committee to provide advice to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on interpreting and administering tax measures for persons with disabilities in a fair, transparent and accessible manner. The committee’s full mandate is attached as Appendix A. Key disability tax measures are described in Appendix B.

Our first annual report, Enabling access to disability tax measures, was published in May 2019. Since that time, we believe there has been important progress with respect to the administration of and communications about the disability tax credit (DTC). Our second annual report describes in detail the many improvements that the CRA has introduced over the past year in response to the recommendations in our 2019 report. These changes are summarized in “The Client Experience” on the following pages.

Section 1 of this second annual report presents a review of the 42 recommendations made in our first annual report. Each recommendation summarizes the relevant context and associated follow-up actions.

Section 2 covers the new areas of conversation during the second year of our mandate. Selected topics focus, for example, on DTC data, concerns of Indigenous peoples and eligibility for a registered disability savings plan.

Section 3 includes the appendices, which provide details not covered in the text.



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Building Understanding: The First Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

In August 2018, the Government of Canada announced Opportunity for All – Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Strategy included a commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goal's target of reducing poverty by 20% by 2020 and 50% by 2030. Opportunity for All included the adoption of the Market Basket Measure (MBM) as Canada's Official Poverty Line and the creation of the National Advisory Council on Poverty (Council) to report on progress made toward the poverty reduction targets.

This is the first report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty. It continues Canada's discussion on poverty by bringing forward the voices of individuals with lived expertise of poverty. It details progress toward our poverty targets and recommends improvements to our poverty reduction efforts.



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Opportunity for All – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy

Canada is a prosperous country, yet in 2015 roughly 1 in 8 Canadians lived in poverty. The vision of Opportunity for All – Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy is a Canada without poverty, because we all suffer when our fellow citizens are left behind. We are all in this together, from governments, to community organizations, to the private sector, to all Canadians who are working hard each and every day to provide for themselves and their families.

For the first time in Canada's history, the Strategy sets an official measure of poverty: Canada's Official Poverty Line, based on the cost of a basket of goods and services that individuals and families require to meet their basic needs and achieve a modest standard of living in communities across the country.

Opportunity for All sets, for the first time, ambitious and concrete poverty reduction targets: a 20% reduction in poverty by 2020 and a 50% reduction in poverty by 2030, which, relative to 2015 levels, will lead to the lowest poverty rate in Canada's history.

Through Opportunity for All, we are putting in place a National Advisory Council on Poverty to advise the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development on poverty reduction and to publicly report, in each year, on the progress that has been made toward poverty reduction.

The Government also proposes to introduce the first Poverty Reduction Act in Parliament in Canada’s history. This Act would entrench the targets, Canada's Official Poverty Line, and the Advisory Council into legislation.



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Study: A labour market snapshot of Black Canadians during the pandemic

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Canadians, including Black Canadians, have experienced significant economic hardship, while others put themselves at risk through their work in essential industries such as health care and social assistance.

Statistics Canada looked at how the 1 million Black Canadians aged 15 to 69 are faring in the labour market during one of the most disruptive times in our economic history. Analysis of the recent labour market situation of population groups designated as visible minorities is now possible as a result of a new question added to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in July 2020.

Unless otherwise stated, all data in this release are unadjusted for seasonality and are based on three-month averages ending in January 2021.



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Momentum’s Money Management Courses

The money management courses are offered online, on demand, for free. Learn at your own pace and on your own schedule on a variety of topics, including:

  • budgeting
  • credit
  • assets
  • banking
  • consumerism
  • education savings

 



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Aboriginal Peoples Survey: Data tables, 2017

New data tables on the labour activities of Indigenous Peoples are now available.

Data are from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and include information on labour force status, job satisfaction, skills training, skills that limit job opportunities, job permanency, part-time or full-time job status, mismatch of skills for current job, disability status and disability severity class, by Indigenous identity, age group and sex.

Data are available for Canada, the provinces (Atlantic provinces combined) and the territories.



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Longitudinal Immigration Database: Asylum claimant and immigrant economic region tables, 2018

Tables on the income and mobility of immigrants by economic region, and a table on asylum claimant economic outcomes, are now available. These tables use data from the Longitudinal Immigration Database.

 



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Aspects of quality of employment in Canada, February and March 2020

The labour market in Canada has experienced unprecedented changes over the last 12 months. Entire sectors of the economy have been subject to temporary restrictions on business activities as a result of public health measures aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, many workers have seen changes in working conditions, such as teleworking, reduced work hours and greater job insecurity.

From mid-February to mid-March 2020, the 2020 Survey on Quality of Employment (SQE) collected information on aspects of job quality in Canada from the perspective of workers. Estimates reflect employment characteristics before the full onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and contribute to establishing a baseline for future analysis of quality of employment in Canada. Unless otherwise stated, the analysis focuses on the 23.5 million workers who were employed in February or March 2020 or who had last worked in 2018 or after, and excludes unpaid family workers.



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Longitudinal Immigration Database: Immigrant children and census metropolitan area tables, 2018

The most recent 2018 data from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) indicate that immigrant children make a significant contribution to Canadian society and the Canadian economy over time. Although immigrant children (32.2%) are more than twice as likely as non-immigrant children (15.4%) to live in low-income households, factors such as the opportunity to be educated in the Canadian system and an increased proficiency in the official languages help immigrant children attain wages in adulthood similar to those of their Canadian-born peers.

This analysis connects the characteristics of immigrants who came to Canada as children with their adulthood socioeconomic outcomes in 2018, such as participation in postsecondary education and median wages. The IMDB provides a long-term perspective on immigrants and their socioeconomic outcomes in Canada, offering details on how immigration is shaping Canada's future. In addition, these data from 2018 contribute to baseline estimates in preparation for future research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrant children, including immigrant children admitted during the pandemic, their adjustment period and their long-term socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood.



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Growing household financial instability: Is income volatility the hidden culprit?

On March 9th, 2018, leading American and Canadian researchers and policy makers from all sectors gathered in Toronto to explore the question: Growing household financial instability: Is income volatility the hidden culprit? The policy research symposium was an invitational event co-hosted by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and Prosper Canada. Its purpose was to shine a light on an issue that has gained prominence in US economic and policy circles but was just emerging as a topic for exploration in Canada in the context of
growing household financial instability.

This report summarizes key insights, conclusions and next steps from the symposium in the hopes that it will inform, catalyse and support further action on this issue. To view the conference agenda and links to all conference presentations, please see Appendix 1. Presentation videos can be found online at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0J2kAG0MZZ5gd_6ZaHjqqEcenL2jCtP



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Yukon Poverty Report Card 2020

This report was released as part of public education movement Campaign 2000's annual assessment of child and family poverty in Canada, providing an overview of the following key issues relating to poverty in Yukon:

  • the housing crisis and the challenge of food insecurity with a focus of the disproportionate impact on children and youth, Indigenous peoples, and others.
  • an overview of previous initiatives and ongoing work that can be leveraged to support a comprehensive approach to reducing poverty in the Yukon.
  • a description of some successful community-driven initiatives that are supporting improvements in the health and wellness of Yukoners.
  • ten recommendations including several policy proposals to improve the health and wellness of children, youth, and families specifically.



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NWT Market Basket Measure

The Market Basket Measure (MBM) is a national measure of low income based on the cost of a fixed basket of goods that represents a modest, basic standard of living.  It includes the cost of food, clothing and footwear, transportation, shelter, and other expenses for a reference family of two adults (aged 25 to 49) and two children (aged 9 and 13).

The Northwest Territories Market Basket Measure (NWT-MBM) adjusts the clothing portion of the national basket to better represent life in the North.  This has been used to calculate the NWT-MBM for regional centres across the NWT.



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The Cost of Poverty in the Atlantic Provinces

This report costs poverty based on three broad measurable components: opportunity costs, remedial costs and intergenerational costs. The authors state that these costs could potentially be reallocated, and benefits could potentially be realized if all poverty were eliminated. The total cost of poverty in the Atlantic region ranges from $2 billion per year in Nova Scotia to $273 million in Prince Edward Island. It is close to a billion in Newfoundland and Labrador, $959 million, and $1.4 billion in New Brunswick. These costs represent a significant loss of economic growth of 4.76% of Nova Scotia’s GDP to 2.9% in Newfoundland and Labrador. The impact on Prince Edward Island’s GDP is 4.10%, and 3.71% in New Brunswick.
The purpose of this costing exercise is to illustrate the shared economic burden of poverty, and the urgency that exists for Atlantic Canadian governments to act to eradicate it.



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Creating Financial Security: Financial Planning in Support of a Relative with a Disability

This handbook covers the following topics:

  • An understanding of why financial planning is important and how to align your financial objectives with your life goals and values.
  • An overview of common financial planning components and tools available to individuals with a disability (including the ODSP, RDSP, DTC, and more).
  • Common financial planning strategies for young, middle-aged and older families.
  • Tips for finding a good financial advisor.
  • Common pitfalls people make when it comes to planning for a loved one with a disability, and how to avoid them.



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Distributional and Fiscal Analysis of a National Guaranteed Basic Income

Several parliamentarians requested that the PBO prepare a distributional analysis of Guaranteed Basic Income using parameters set out in Ontario’s basic income pilot project, examine the impact across income quintiles, family types and gender, and identify the net federal revenue increase required to offset the net cost of the new program. This analysis also accounts for the behavioural response.



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Roadblocks and Resilience

This report, Roadblocks and Resilience Insights from the Access to Benefits for Persons with Disabilities project, provides insights on the barriers people with disabilities in British Columbia face in accessing key income benefits. These insights, and the accompanying service principles that participants identified, were obtained by reviewing existing research, directly engaging 16 B.C. residents with disabilities and interviewing 18 researchers and service providers across Canada. We will use these insights to inform development and testing of a pilot service to support people with disabilities to access disability benefits.

The related journey map Common steps to get disability benefits also illustrates the complexities of this benefits application process. 

This journey map illustrates the process of applying for the Disability Tax Credit.

The journey map Persons with Disability (PWD) status illustrates the process of preparing for and applying for and maintaining Persons with Disabilities Status and disability assistance in B.C.



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2021 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada – Report 4 – Canada Child Benefit

A report from Auditor General Karen Hogan concludes that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) managed the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) program so that millions of eligible families received accurate and timely payments. The audit also reviewed the one-time additional payment of up to $300 per child issued in May 2020 to help eligible families during the COVID‑19 pandemic.

The audit noted areas where the agency could improve the administration of the program by changing how it manages information it uses to assess eligibility to the CCB. For example, better use of information received from other federal organizations would help ensure that the agency is informed when a beneficiary has left the country. This would avoid cases where payments are issued on the basis of outdated information. To enhance the integrity of the program, the agency should request that all applicants provide a valid proof of birth when they apply for the benefit.

The audit also raised the concept of female presumption and noted that given the diversity of families in Canada today, this presumption has had an impact on the administration of the Canada Child Benefit program.



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Creating Change: Momentum’s Contribution to High-Cost Credit Reform in Alberta

As part of Momentum’s systems change planning process that was grounded in both participant and community experience, the issue of payday loans and other forms of high-cost credit (e.g., pawn, installment, rent-to-own, title and car loans) emerged as a priority issue for Momentum to address the financial barriers for people living on low incomes to exit poverty and build sustainable livelihoods.
To evaluate its work for high-cost credit reform in Calgary and Alberta in the period of 2012 to 2019, an outcome harvest was conducted. This evaluation reflects the collective efforts of multiple partners, identifies outcomes achieved as well as Momentum’s contribution to these outcomes.



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Money Mentors – Savings & Debt Resources

Collection of money management resources, including how create effective budgets, realistic spending plans, deal with your debts, save more money, build a stronger credit rating, and prepare for retirement.



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Disability Inclusion Analysis of Lessons Learned and Best Practices of the Government of Canada’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

This report provides the findings of research conducted to assist Employment and Social Development Canada in identifying good or best practices and lessons learned from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Conducted in partnership with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN), this research helps us better understand how diverse people with disabilities in Canada have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of government COVID-19 measures on diverse people with disabilities in Canada.



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Overcoming Digital Divides Workshop Series: Framing Paper

Canada’s digital divide has often been narrowly defined as the gap that exists between urban and rural broadband internet availability — Canadian urban centres have significantly greater internet subscription levels at faster speeds than rural communities.(Government of Canada, 2019). The cost of building new internet infrastructure in less developed areas continues to impede equitable access to sufficient internet services.

This series aims to engage people living in Canada, industry, academia and policymakers to advance a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the circumstances that precipitate the conditions that shape digital inequities in Canada. Through expert panel discussions and thoughtful participatory dialogue, the series aims to drive toward innovative solutions to greater digital inclusion across Canada. The series will be presented in six parts, each tackling a specific theme with unique concerns. The series will also build on intersectional connections across themes while identifying new issues and impacted communities. 



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Homeless Shelter Flows in Calgary and the Potential Impact of COVID-19

Social distancing and self-isolation are two of the key responses asked of citizens during a pandemic. For people without a home, this advice is rather more difficult to follow. This article uses daily data describing the movements of 36,855 unique individuals who used emergency homeless shelters in Calgary over the period 1 January 2014–31 December 2019. The use of emergency shelters is characterized by large flows from and into the broader community and smaller flows between individual shelters. Between admissions of new people into the shelter system and multiple re-admissions of current clients, there were an average of 43,613 movements between the community and between shelters each month. The size of these flows provide a measure of the extent to which people reliant on homeless shelters are exposed to the risk of transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). 



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Cross Canada Check-up (updated March 2021)

Canada ranks consistently as one of the best places to live in the world and one of the wealthiest. When it comes to looking at the financial health of Canadian households, however, we are often forced to rely on incomplete measures, like income alone, or aggregate national statistics that tell us little about the distribution of financial health and vulnerability in our neighbourhoods, communities or provinces/territories.

The purpose of this report is to examine the financial heath and vulnerability of Canadian households in different provinces and territories using a new composite index of household financial health, the Neighbourhood Financial Health Index or NFHI.

This report is an update of Cross Canada Check-up: Provincial/territorial findings from Canada's Neighbourhood Financial Health Index published in 2018. 
 
Update July 22, 2022: Please note that the Neighbourhood Financial Health Index is no longer available



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Household economic well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, experimental estimates, first quarter to third quarter of 2020

Over the first three quarters of 2020, disposable income for the lowest-income households increased 36.8%, more than for any other households. At the same time, the youngest households recorded the largest gain in their net worth (+9.8%). These changes were driven by unprecedented increases in transfers to households, as the value of government COVID-19 support measures exceeded losses in wages and salaries and self-employment income.

As the pandemic unfolded in Canada, households experienced extraordinary changes in their economic well-being. While quarterly releases of gross domestic product and the national balance sheet provide an aggregate view of these impacts, new experimental sub-annual distributions of household economic accounts (DHEA), released today, provide insight into how the pandemic and the associated government support measures have affected the economic well-being of different groups of households in Canada.



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Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2019

Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile is an annual report produced by the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics at Statistics Canada as part of the Federal Family Violence Initiative. Since 1998, this report has provided data on the nature and extent of family violence in Canada, as well as an analysis of trends over time. The information presented is used extensively to monitor changes that inform policy makers and the public.



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Low income measure (LIM) thresholds by income source and household size

Low income measure (LIM) thresholds by household size for market income, total income and after-tax income, in current and constant dollars, annual.



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COVID-19 in Canada: A One-year Update on Social and Economic Impacts

This summary provides highlights on the work the Agency has and is undertaking using existing and new data sources to provide critical insights on the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians. It covers the first year of the pandemic from March 2020 to March 2021.



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Study: Association between food insecurity and stressful life events among Canadian adults

The COVID-19 pandemic and the related business closures and lockdowns have given rise to a series of unprecedented socioeconomic and health-related challenges, one of which is increasing food insecurity.

Throughout the pandemic, Statistics Canada has continued to collect and release data on food insecurity in Canada—including exploring the link between food insecurity and mental health, financial stability and Indigenous people living in urban areas.

This study looks at the characteristics of food insecure Canadians, focusing on how losing a job, suffering an injury or illness, or a combination of events can increase the risk of food insecurity. This release compares the food security outcomes of two different subpopulations: those who had experienced a stressful life event and those who had not.



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Labour Force Survey, February 2021

February Labour Force Survey (LFS) data reflect labour market conditions during the week of February 14 to 20.

In early February, public health restrictions put in place in late December were eased in many provinces. This allowed for the re-opening of many non-essential businesses, cultural and recreational facilities, and some in-person dining. However, capacity limits and other public health requirements, which varied across jurisdictions, remained in place.

Restrictions were eased to varying degrees in Quebec, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia on February 8, although a curfew remained in effect in Quebec. In Ontario, previous requirements were lifted for many regions on February 10 and 15, while the Toronto, Peel, York and North Bay Parry Sound health regions remained under stay-at-home orders through the reference week. Various measures were eased in Manitoba on February 12.

In contrast, Newfoundland and Labrador re-introduced a lockdown on February 12, requiring the widespread closure of non-essential businesses and services.



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The MIX Challenge Toolkit: Tools & Techniques for Challenge-Based Innovation Partnerships & Procurement

The Municipal Innovation Exchange (MIX) project team created this Toolkit to assist municipalities - individual line managers or project owners, or municipal strategic teams (like a Smart Cities Office) - that are contemplating or undertaking a procurement by means of innovation partnership.

The Toolkit can help municipal staff decide which projects are a good fit for this approach to procurement. It can help them initiate and manage an innovation partnership. It can also help them assess the whole experience afterwards and determine if and how to apply innovation partnership again.

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Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts (2nd edition)

Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts, 2nd edition, provides Canadians with an updated introduction to the social determinants of our health. We first explain how living conditions “get under the skin” to either promote health or cause disease. We then explain, for each of the 17 social determinants of health:

  1. Why it is important to health;
  2. How we compare on the social determinant of health to other wealthy developed nations; and
  3. How the quality of the specific social determinant can be improved.

Improving the health of Canadians is possible but requires Canadians to think about health and its determinants in a more sophisticated manner than has been the case to date. The purpose of this second edition of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts is to stimulate research, advocacy, and public debate about the social determinants of health and means of improving their quality and making their distribution more equitable.



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10: A Guide for a Community-Based COVID-19 Recovery

Our cities and communities are where people live. It is here we see the effects of public policy and it is here where we will address the issues that matter most to Canadians. The choices made today will impact Canada’s recovery from COVID-19. If we want a future where our cities are thriving, we need to work together to achieve a collective community-based response. We are all in this together and it will take all of us in a community to find our way through.

If you are a community leader, such as a mayor, an elected official, a business leader, a community activist, or a concerned citizen, this guide was written for you. We created it to be accessible and easy to use, with five sections and links to resources throughout.



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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility and Income Inequality in Canada

In this paper, administrative Canadian tax data are exploited to compute measures of intergenerational income mobility at the national, provincial and territorial levels. This work provides detailed descriptive evidence on trends in social mobility. Five cohorts of Canadians, born between 1963 and 1985, are observed as teens living with their parents and again as adults in their late 20s and early 30s.



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COVID-19 Fraud Alerts

GetSmarterAboutMoney.ca is an Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) website that provides unbiased and independent financial tools to help you make better financial decisions. This series of videos increases awareness of fraudulent activity during COVID-19. Topic include:

  • Pump-and-dump scams
  • Fake government messages
  • Warnings about your finances
  • Work from home scams
  • Signs of investment fraud
  • Quick high-return schemes



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Diversity of charity and non-profit boards of directors: Overview of the Canadian non-profit sector

Charities and non-profit organizations play a vital role in supporting and enriching the lives of Canadians. A crowdsourcing survey of individuals involved in the governance of charities and non-profit organizations was conducted from December 4, 2020, to January 18, 2021. The objectives of the survey were to collect timely information on the activities of these organizations and the individuals they serve and to learn more about the diversity of those who serve on their boards of directors. A total of 8,835 individuals completed the survey, 6,170 of whom were board members.



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Labour Force Survey, January 2021

After the December Labour Force Survey (LFS) reference week—December 6 to 12—a number of provinces extended public health measures in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. January LFS data reflect the impact of these new restrictions and provide a portrait of labour market conditions as of the week of January 10 to 16.

In Ontario, restrictions already in place for many regions of southern Ontario—including the closure of non-essential retail businesses—were extended to the rest of the province effective December 26. In Quebec, non-essential retail businesses were closed effective December 25 and a curfew implemented on January 14 further affected the operating hours of some businesses.

As of the January reference week, existing public health measures continued in Alberta and Manitoba, including the closure of in-person dining services, recreation facilities and personal care services, as well as restrictions on retail businesses.

Restrictions were eased between the December and January reference weeks in two provinces. In Prince Edward Island, closures of in-person dining and recreational and cultural facilities were lifted on December 18. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the surrounding area, restrictions on in-person dining were eased on January 4.



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Canadian Economic News, January 2021 edition

This module provides a concise summary of selected Canadian economic events, as well as international and financial market developments by calendar month. All information presented here is obtained from publicly available news and information sources, and does not reflect any protected information provided to Statistics Canada by survey respondents. This is the issue for January 2021.



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Income and mobility of immigrants, 2018

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of Canadian immigration, including reduced permanent resident admissions and lower labour market outcomes. This article presents the latest economic and mobility outcomes of immigrants admitted to Canada using data from the 2019 Longitudinal Immigration Database, and provides baseline estimates prior to the pandemic for future analyses.

In recent years, the profile of immigrants admitted to Canada has changed. The median entry wage for immigrants admitted to Canada in 2017 was the highest to date, reaching $30,100 in 2018.

This value surpassed the previous high of $26,500 for 2017 outcomes of immigrants admitted in 2016. These new data also highlight a decreasing gap between the immigrant median entry wage and the Canadian median wage ($37,400). Factors such as pre-admission experience, knowledge of official languages, and category of admission, among other socioeconomic characteristics, could contribute to the rise in median entry wage compared with previous admission years.



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The COVID-19 pandemic and Indigenous people with a disability or long-term condition

This paper uses crowdsourced data to provide an overview of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health, service access, and ability to meet basic needs of Indigenous participants with disabilities or long-term conditions. Changes in overall health and mental health are examined by disability type, age group and sex. The most commonly reported service disruptions since the start of the pandemic are also presented.

The crowdsourcing data reflected health and other disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants with a disability or long-term condition. Indigenous participants were more likely to report worsened overall health and mental health, service disruption, and a greater impact on their ability to meet essential needs.



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Statistic Canada’s Longitudinal Immigration Database: Birth area and income table, 2018

Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) Interactive Application has been updated to include data on citizenship intake rates and income by birth area, sex, pre-admission experience and admission category. This table includes income measures up to 2018 for immigrants admitted to Canada since 2008.



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Report on the Charities Program 2018 to 2020

The charitable sector is a major social and economic force, offering vital services to Canadians and people around the world. The Canada Revenue Agency's Charities Directorate employs an education-first approach and client-centric philosophy. It aims to promote compliance with the charity-related income tax legislation and regulations in order to support charitable giving and development of the sector, while protecting charities and the public from abuse.

This report provides an update on the Directorate’s activities over the past two years, including the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.



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State of Fair Banking in Canada 2020: Borrower and Lender Perspectives

The DUCA Impact Lab defines fair banking as any financial product or service that lives up to the following set of principles:

  • Pricing is clear, transparent, and well understood
  • Pricing is representative of the cost of funds, cost of administration and risk, rather than what the market will bear
  • It is clear to all parties how any personal data is being used by the lender
  • Personal data is only used for purposes agreed to by both the borrower and lender
  • The terms and conditions, including penalties and the rights of each party are clearly explained and well understood by both lender and borrower
  • Products are only recommended that will bring the borrower closer to their expressed goals
  • The borrower is clear on what the institution will do (and not do), with deposits to earn a return
  • The assessment of risk is objective, transparent and not prejudicial
  • Financial institution recommendations are not biased towards in-house product recommendations
  • Products empower consumers when they need access to financial services, not just when they do not

Their Fair Banking 2020 report presents data on the following areas:

  • Debt load and its impact on Canadians
  • Financial confidence
  • Divide between borrowers and lenders
  • How financial products are priced
  • Poor credit and ability to access to financial product and services
  • Demographic snapshot: People of colour and Indigenous Canadians

 



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The COVID-19 Wildfire: Nonprofit Organizational Challenge and Opportunity

Nonprofit organizations in Canada were significantly impacted by COVID-19, including lost revenue and needing to adjust the program delivery. The lack of technology capacity in the nonprofit sector is a key barrier for many nonprofit organizations to adapt to delivering programs online. Momentum, a Calgary-based nonprofit organization, experienced both financial and programmatic challenges due to COVID-19. Momentum pivoted program delivery to provide supports during the COVID-19 lockdown and developed innovative approaches to online programming. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Momentum was able to rapidly develop its capacity to use technology for online programming with the support of critical new funding. Many nonprofits will have to transform their business models to not only survive but thrive in the post-COVID world.



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One in five Canadians with mental health-related disabilities lives in core housing need

Canadians with mental health-related disabilities were more than twice as likely as those without disabilities to live in households considered to be in core housing need in 2017. Canadians with mental health-related disabilities were also more likely than those without disabilities to live alone, to rent their homes and to live in subsidized housing, according to the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD).

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has identified those living with pre-existing mental health-related disabilities as a particularly vulnerable population because of the impacts of isolation and disruptions to mental health-related services during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent crowdsourcing survey by Statistics Canada found that almost three-quarters (73%) of participants with mental health-related disabilities stated that their mental health had worsened since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, PHAC has indicated that those living with inadequate or unsuitable housing are also more vulnerable during the pandemic and are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19.

This infographic presents pre-existing living situations and housing conditions among Canadians with mental health-related disabilities that may put them at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, as well as the emotional and psychosocial impacts of living through a pandemic.



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Study: The changing nature of work in Canada amid recent advances in automation technology

While automation has changed the nature of work in Canada over the past few decades, this change was very gradual, and did not accelerate with the very recent developments in artificial intelligence.

The results of this study reveal that the share of Canadians working in managerial, professional and technical occupations increased from 23.8% in 1987 to 31.2% in 2018, while the share employed in service occupations increased more moderately from 19.2% to 21.8% over the same timeframe. Jobs in both of these occupational groups are generally difficult to automate.

Meanwhile, the share of workers employed in production, craft, repair and operative occupations (more automatable tasks) went from 29.7% in 1987 to 22.2% in 2018, while the share employed in sales, clerical and administrative support occupations also fell over the period (from 27.3% in 1987 to 24.9% in 2018). These jobs are generally more amenable to automation.



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Together BC: British Columbia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy

 British Columbia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, sets a path to reduce overall poverty in B.C. by 25% and child poverty by 50% by 2024.

With investments from across Government, TogetherBC reflects government’s commitment to reduce poverty and make life more affordable for British Columbians. It includes policy initiatives and investments designed to lift people up, break the cycle of poverty and build a better B.C. for everyone.

Built on the principles of Affordability, Opportunity, Reconciliation, and Social Inclusion, TogetherBC focuses on six priority action areas:

  • More affordable housing for more people
  • Supporting families, children and youth
  • Expanding access to education and training
  • More opportunities, more jobs
  • Improving income supports
  • Investing in social inclusion



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Questions and answers about filing your taxes

Questions and answers released by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) about filing your taxes, including information on:

  • Prior to filing your tax return
    • changing your address
    • getting someone else permission to access your tax information
    • getting free tax help
  • Filing your tax return
    • deadline to file your taxes
    • common mistakes people make on their taxes
    • what is a non-refundable tax credit
  • Digital services available to file your tax return
  • After filing your tax return
    • when you can expect a refund
    • how long you should keep receipts or records
    • what to do if you cannot pay your balance owing



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Mapping Toronto’s Digital Divide

This report analyzes Toronto's home internet and device access, quality, affordability, and usage, during pandemic closures of businesses, schools, and community organizations.

Read this report to help you:

  • Understand the demographics and geographies of who is not connected or cannot afford home internet in Toronto, with comparisons to provincial and national data, how they get online, and where in Toronto they live. 
  • Unpack the digital divide beyond basic access: speed, affordability, quality, and devices per household member.
  • Identify gaps in existing programs and services meant to close the digital divide.



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Stop Overpaying, Start Switching

In the past year, 1 in 4 Canadians surveyed renegotiated their contracts or switched providers to take advantage of better deals and services.

This webpage provides information on switching or renegotiating your contract to reduce your monthly bills and get better products and services.



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Statistics on Indigenous peoples

This data hub includes data on the following subjects:

  • Crime and victimization
  • Demographic characteristics and Indigenous groups
  • Education, learning and skills
  • Health and well-being
  • Income and spending
  • Indigenous children
  • Indigenous population profiles
  • Labour and employment
  • Language and culture
  • Living arrangements and housing
  • Other content related to Indigenous peoples



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Consumer Price Index Personal Inflation Calculator

This interactive tool created by Statistics Canada allows you to explore your personal rate of inflation, based on the goods and services you consume.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the official measure of inflation in Canada. It is representative of the change in prices experienced by the average Canadian household. However, your personal experience of inflation may not perfectly match the Canadian average due to differences in your spending habits. The Personal Inflation Calculator accounts for those differences and provides a measure of inflation unique to you.



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Labour Force Survey, December 2020

December Labour Force Survey (LFS) results reflect labour market conditions as of the week of December 6 to 12.

As of the reference week, public health measures introduced earlier in the fall remained in place in Manitoba and much of Quebec. These included the closure of many recreation and cultural facilities and in-person dining services, as well as various degrees of restrictions on retail businesses.



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Food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Canadians living in households that experienced food insecurity (insecure or inadequate access to food because of financial constraints) during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were significantly more likely to perceive their mental health as fair or poor and to report moderate or severe anxiety symptoms than Canadians in food-secure households. Approximately one in seven Canadians (14.6%) were estimated to live in a food-insecure household in May 2020.

This study, released in Health Reports, is the first to examine the association between household food insecurity and self-perceived mental health and anxiety among Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also estimated that 9.3% of Canadians living in food-insecure households reported having recently accessed free food or meals from a community organization.



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Debt Relief Options in Canada – Long Term Outcome Comparison

This research report compares the long-term financial outcomes of Canadians, based on a study comparing consumers who used a debt management program (DMP), bankruptcy (BK), or a consumer proposal (CP) to obtain relief from debt.



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Financial Life Stages of Older Canadians

This study, commissioned by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and conducted by the Brondesbury Group, provides some insights on the knowledge that older Canadians have about the financial realities of retirement and how they would apply that knowledge earlier in life if they are able to do so. The top financial concerns and main financial risks of older Canadians are identified for each life stage and how they are being managed are discussed.



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Behavioural insights: key concepts, applications and regulatory considerations

There are numerous factors that influence the decisions that people make. Behavioural insights (BI) recognizes this and, through a combination of psychology, economic and more recently other behavioural research, examines how people are often neither deliberate nor rational in their decisions in the way that traditional models, strategies and policies assume.

Behavioural insights recognize how people actually behave versus traditional economic and market theory of people as rational actors. This report discusses how leading practitioners and regulators around the world are using behavioural insights to address issues in capital markets and improve outcomes for investors and market participants.



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Encouraging Retirement Planning through Behavioural Insights

This research report identifies behaviourally informed ways that government, regulators, employers, and financial institutions can encourage retirement planning.

Thirty different initiatives and tactics that could be implemented by a variety of stakeholders to encourage retirement planning are proposed, and interventions are organized around four primary challenges people face in moving from having the intention to create a retirement plan to the action of making a plan: (1) it’s hard to start, (2) it’s easy to put off, (3) it’s easy to get overwhelmed and drop out, and (4) it’s hard to get the right advice.

 

The report also includes the results of a randomized experiment that evaluated several of the approaches proposed in the report. This report was published as part of the Ontario Securities Commission’s strategy and action plan to respond to the needs and priorities of Ontario seniors.



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Change Matters Volume 2: Assets

This is the second brief in a new series from The Financial Clinic. Change Matters leverages the data gathered through our revolutionary financial coaching platform, Change Machine, alongside the voices, wisdom, and lived experiences of Change Machine customers. We hope that our action oriented analysis will lead to positive social change. We believe we have a responsibility to ask the right questions, to use our data for good, and to inspire products, practice, and policy innovations that centralize the needs of the working-poor in building economic mobility.



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Overcoming Poverty Together 3: The New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Plan 2020-2025

The new Economic and Social Inclusion plan for New Brunswick builds upon progress accomplished over the past 10 years. It includes nine priority actions divided into three pillars:

  • Income Security: includes actions addressing improvements to social assistance, changes to the Employment Standards Act and an increase of the capacity and sustainability of social enterprises.
  • Co-ordination of Programs and Services: includes actions towards a review of government programs, services and tax policies targeted to low-income individuals, and the implementation of a One-Stop-Shop service to help New Brunswickers access information and navigate government and community programs and services.
  • Inclusion and Healthy Communities: includes actions bringing improvement to mental and addictions services, the development of regional transportation plans, work with partners to provide inclusive opportunities for recreation activities for New Brunswickers on a low income, and the development of food programs in all schools.

The objective of the plan is to reduce income poverty by at least 50 per cent by 2030, in line with the objectives of Opportunity for All, Canada’s first poverty reduction strategy, and those of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainability of the United Nations.



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State of the Child Report 2020: Protecting Child Rights in Times of Pandemic

The 2020 State of the Child Report includes six recommendations and gives a snapshot of some of the challenges New Brunswick children and youth will have to overcome as the province moves forward and juggles the new realities of public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while respecting child rights.



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State of the Child Report 2019

This report's release was part of Child Rights Education Week and also in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). 2019 was declared the International Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations.

The report contains an overview of some of the serious challenges facing New Brunswick children and youth, including more than 200 statistics presented in the report’s Child Rights Indicators Framework. A special emphasis was placed on education rights.

Some of the concerning findings revealed in the report include:

  • nearly half of youths in poverty feel socially excluded;
  • half of all youths have no one they look up to; and
  • one in four youths with special needs does not feel that they belong at their school.



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Guide de recours : Lors d’un conflit avec un fournisseur de communication

A guide for consumers to help with problems related to communications services. Information is provided to allow consumers to better assert their rights and facilitate the resolution of a dispute with communication service providers. (Please note this is a French-language resource.)



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Bien choisir son crédit : un guide pratique [A Practical Guide to Making Smart Credit Choices]

A guide comprised of 12 fact sheets for consumers to learn more about credit, grouped into the following topics: general information, warnings, credit products, and comparison tables. (Please note this is a French-language resource.)



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Creating Communities Where We Live – A Good Practices Guide

Creating Communities Where We Live - A Good Practices Guide is a locally-driven community-based researched project conducted in Edmonton, Alberta, by e4c and the University of Alberta Community Service-Learning program. The project seeks to add to the knowledge and practice of community care around supporting people to achieve a safe, secure, and affordable housing experience.

The 10 good practices in this guide describe structures, roles, and relationships which promote community and wellbeing for tenants who live in affordable housing. The practices are informed, in part, by research into tenant and staff experiences at affordable housing complexes run by four Edmonton housing providers.



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Canadian Economic Dashboard and COVID-19

This dashboard presents selected data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on economic activity in Canada. It includes data on a range of monthly indicators - real GDP, consumer prices, the unemployment rate, merchandise exports and imports, retail sales, hours worked and manufacturing sales -- as well as monthly data on aircraft movements, railway carloadings, and travel between Canada and other countries.



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CPA Canada 2020 Canadian Finance Study

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) has released its comprehensive Canadian Finance Study 2020, which examines people's attitudes and feelings towards their personal finances. The results highlight the new financial realities that Canadians are experiencing during these unprecedented times.

Nielsen conducted the CPA Canada 2020 Canadian Finance Study via an online questionnaire, from September 4 to 16, 2020 with 2,008 randomly selected Canadian adults, aged 18 years and over, who are members of their online panel.

Among the key pandemic-related findings:

  • 31 per cent of the participants say their income has decreased as a result of COVID-19.
  • 30 per cent of respondents report COVID-19 has reduced the amount they are saving.
  • 21 per cent of pre-retired respondents reveal they now plan to retire later as a result of COVID-19.
  • COVID-19 also is impacting the way survey participants are spending, with 55 per cent saying they are spending less, on average.
  • Nearly half of the respondents (46 per cent) say that their financial situation is about the same as it was a year ago.
  • 77 per cent of those surveyed are not receiving a COVID-19-related benefit from the federal government.



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Gender Results Framework: Data table on core housing need

Statistics Canada's Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics has released an enhanced data table on the topic of core housing need. These statistics will be used by the Gender Results Framework, a whole-of-government tool designed to track gender equality in Canada.

Using data from the 2006 Census of Population, the 2016 Census of Population and the 2011 National Household Survey, the table shows the proportion of the population in core housing need by selected economic family characteristics.

This table includes a breakdown by province and territory, age group as well as other demographic characteristics such as population groups designated as visible minorities and Indigenous identity.



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A profile of Canadians with a mobility disability and groups designated as visible minorities with a disability

Results from the 2017 Canadian Survey of Disability (CSD) have shown that over half of Canadians with a mobility disability need at least one workplace accommodation. Among population groups designated as visible minorities who have a disability, one-quarter considered themselves to be disadvantaged in employment because of their condition.

In recognition of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Statistics Canada released three new data products based on findings from the 2017 CSD. One infographic focuses on disabilities related to mobility and another takes a look at visible minorities with disabilities. In addition, two data tables, on industry and occupation of those with and without disabilities, are now available.



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Labour Force Survey, November 2020

November Labour Force Survey (LFS) results reflect labour market conditions as of the week of November 8 to 14.

In September and October, many provinces began introducing targeted public health measures in response to rising COVID-19 numbers. In early November, restrictions related to indoor dining and fitness facilities were eased in Ontario, while in Manitoba new measures affecting restaurants, recreational facilities and retail businesses were introduced. Much of Quebec remained at the "red" alert level in November, leading to the ongoing closure of indoor dining and many recreational and cultural facilities.



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Virtual self-assisted tax filing: Learnings from a program pilot

Resources

Handouts, slides, and video time-stamps

Read the presentation slides for this webinar.

Download the handout for this webinar: Process map: Virtual Self-File model overview

Time-stamps for the video recording:
4:01 – Agenda and introductions
5:59 – Audience polls
10:27 – Project introduction (Speaker: Ana Fremont, Prosper Canada)
14:31 – Tour of TurboTax for Tax Clinics (Speaker: Guy Labelle, Intuit)
17:59 – Woodgreen project pilot (Speaker: Ansley Dawson, Woodgreen Community Services)
27:35 – EBO 2-step process (Speaker: Marc D’Orgeville, EBO)
39:26 – Woodgreen program modifications (Speaker: Ansley Dawson, Woodgreen)
46:03 – Q&A

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