After you work with your estate planning attorney to draft a carefully tailored estate plan, it is usually your responsibility to “fund” the trust. We can help you stay on top of the latest news that affects your everyday life. Subscribe to stay up to date. (To subscribe to our blog click here). What does…
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Twitter for Business to Cost $1,000 Monthly for Verified Check-Mark
Elon Musk’s Twitter needs cash — and now the mega-billionaire wants companies and brands to fork over $1,000 monthly to get verified check-marks on his social network. Twitter is asking organizations to pay $1,000 per month, plus an additional $50 monthly for each affiliated sub-account, to maintain the gold check-mark verification badges the company introduced…
Soaring rents in Toronto, Vancouver force residents on modest incomes into ‘deplorable’ conditions
With Vancouver and Toronto vacancy rates at 0.9 and 1.7 per cent respectively, and rental prices surging, seniors, students, new immigrants, single parents and people with disabilities — those on modest or fixed incomes — are being priced out of their communities. Ren Thomas, associate professor of planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, warns it’s…
Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot – Business News
Photo: The Canadian Press File – The Microsoft Bing logo and the website’s page are shown in this photo taken in New York on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Microsoft is promising to make improvements to its new artificially intelligent Bing search engine after it’s been insulting and threatening some of its early users. (AP Photo/Richard…
Excess household savings may help economy avoid harsher downturns: BMO – Business News
Households have savings The Canadian Press – Feb 17, 2023 / 10:44 am | Story: 412057 Photo: The Canadian Press A new BMO report suggests excess household savings in Canada and the US may help both countries avoid a severe economic downturn amid high interest rates. Pedestrians walk through a sliver of sunlight in the…
Are You Prepared for Russian Ransomware?
Recently, a health network in Pennsylvania was hacked by a Russian ransomware gang called BlackCat. We can help you stay on top of the latest news that affects your everyday life. Subscribe to stay up to date. (To subscribe to our blog click here). BlackCat attacked a physician practice in Pennsylvania, but did not disrupt…
Prominent Chinese investment bank says its founder is unreachable
Shares of the company that operates one of China’s top investment banks, China Renaissance, plunged Friday after the firm said it had lost touch with its founder, Bao Fan, one of the country’s most high-profile bankers and a top tech-sector dealmaker. China Renaissance Holdings said in a filing to Hong Kong’s stock exchange Thursday that…
Chattanoogan Bill Kilbride to remain TVA chairman and other business news
Chattanoogan Bill Kilbride to remain TVA chairman Chattanoogan Bill Kilbride will remain as chairman of America’s biggest public utility until November unless his replacement is named and confirmed before then. In the first meeting of a full nine-member TVA board since 2019, Kilbride was elected Thursday to remain as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority…