Here’s my 5 favourite posts from the last seven days:

• BigCajunMan writes about Students: Banks’ New Markets
• Canadian Mortgage Trends shares some info about the Home Trust Builder Program – interesting if you’re looking to build your new home
• Frugal Trader at MDJ discusses Setting up a Corporation
• Tom ponders Mint.com Coming To Canada? (Possibly answering Canadian Capitalist’s question: What should Microsoft Money users do?)
• Preet exposes The Financial Advisor Retirement Plan (Making one re-think all those fees they pay?)

Have a great weekend everyone!

P.S. Check back tomorrow for my Twitter round-up.

The top 5 this week doesn’t really have anything to do with school, but it’s an homage to my fiancée who graduated from the faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa last spring, and just was recommended to the supply teaching list in Ottawa yesterday!  She’s also headed back to complete her Masters of Education this fall.  (So if any Ottawa teachers out there need a supply… )

Without further adieu, here’s my top 5 favourite posts from the last week:

• Thicken My Wallet writes about Life insurance for your children (Okay, maybe one back to school related link!)
• Tax Guy warns, “Kiss the Home Renovation Tax Credit Goodbye“, however the Liberals say they’ll support it no matter what happens election-wise
• Big Cajun Man wrote a two part series answering the question, “How Do Banks Differentiate Themselves?“  (Part 2 here.)
• Preet questions, why no Stop Loss Orders on Mutual Funds?
• Frugal Trader writes about Converting a Principal Residence into a Rental Property

Have a great long weekend everyone!  I’m back on Tuesday.

As is my weekly tradition, here’s my five favourite posts from the last week:

• Canadian Dream: Free at 45 writes about The Average Return Fallacy
• Frugal Trader from MDJ explains Lifestyle Inflation, and I blogged about my strategies to avoid it on Wednesday
• Mike at Quest for Four Pillars asks, When Do You Buy New Items Or Just Replace Parts?
• Canadian Mortgage Trends delves into the mailbag to answer questions about HELOCs vs Mortgages
• Tom at The Canadian Finance Blog answers the question: What is CMHC Mortgage Insurance?

Bonus Link:

• Preet from Where Does All My Money Go? presents another great giveaway, the Benjamin Graham on Investing Giveaway Contest

We didn’t write a frugal (Marie hates that description!) wedding related post this week, but I promise we’ll be back with one next week.  Have a great weekend everyone!

Here’s my favourite PF blog posts (in no particular order) from the last seven days:

• Big Cajun Man is Learning to Live Without a Cellphone (sort of)
• Preet at Where Does All My Money Go? talks about Commissions Being Banned For Financial Advisors (no, not in Canada unfortunately)
• Canadian Capitalist asks Why the middle class is feeling Squeezed?
• Matthew Kepnes writes a guest post on Million Dollar journey about How to Save Money on Travel
• Canadian Mortgage Trends says: Variables Get More Competitive

Bonus links:

Two of my favourite bloggers also wrote about ING TFSAs this week, and they sound like a good option for someone wanting to hold cash in theirs.

• Canadian Capitalist mulls over Choosing a TFSA Savings Account
• Frugal Trader at MDJ gives us an ING Direct Review and $25 Referral Bonus

Have a great weekend, everyone!

As is my weekly practice, here’s my 5 favourite (in no particular order) posts from the blogosphere:

• Canadian Mortgage Trends warns of The Cost of Long Amortizations
• Tom at The Canadian Finance Blog reminds you to Backup Your Important Documents and Files
• Tax Guy from Canadian Tax Resource outlines recent changes to the tax code affecting RRIF and RRSP Losses After Death
• Mr. Cheap of Quest for four pillars discusses Job Envy – being the child of, and also fiancee of a Teacher, I’ve seen quite a bit of this
• Canadian Dream: Free at 45 drinks Thirty Bottle of Wine that he made… but not in one sitting, I hope

Have a great weekend, and if you’re in Ontario: try and stay cool!  I might have to escape to an air-conditioned movie theater this weekend…