Rentlar

Depends on how worried you are and how safe or risky you want to play it given the world's uncertainty.

Contribute to your TFSA what you can afford to (within your contribution limit). If you are super risk averse but want to lend money to Canadian banks at a better rate than savings accounts, a GIC (guaranteed investment certificate) would probably be the best choice, aka term deposit. Returns are lower but aside from the time to maturity there's no downside risk.

Passive index funds are on the whole relatively low risk (in a line must go up world, anyway). If you want a TSX index run by a Canadian bank rather than Blackrock you could look at ticker symbol TTF (TD), or ZCN (BMO). There are probably various fund companies that are Canadian but I just haven't researched it.

But whatever you do (aside from insane Baysteeetbets type of gambling on the market), the important thing is that you are starting to save early. That is excellent, when you're starting out that's more crucial than whether your investment yields 4.5% or 5% in a year.

Glad to have you. Enjoy your time here!

Not having to ride a Boeing aircraft is a great bonus to taking Porter.

It's not much of a surprise to me Swoop is gone under WestJet, lately they seem to be trying to combine the barebones-ness of Flair Airlines with the terrible service quality and tardiness of Air Canada.

Air North had amazing service when I travelled to Yukon. Porter is the nicest of all the national carriers.

I do miss Lynx Air for the short time it was around. They were basic but did the job and didn't treat us like sardines to be stuffed in a can.

Senators (in the US) are elected representatives of their state. Sen. Booker, through his 25 hour speech, brought his constituents' message to the forefront, criticized the Senate, Democrats' and his own failures to act. He got millions of people to look at Senate business as if he was a professional streamer which is usually boring stuff. The speech is Booker's answer to "what can I do at this moment to make a difference?", which hopefully will get others to ask the same of themselves.

It's impossible to measure the true impact of the speech afterward, but it's intended to inspire people to take action, resist the Trump monarchy, and cause "good trouble" where they can. Who knows whether this has had any influence on the Wisconsin Supreme Court which was a humiliation to Musk, or if it had any influence on the 4 Republican Senators joining Democrats to pass a resolution nullifying the false emergency against Canada?

I'm not against buying from countries other than Canadian, but I am considering Canadian alternatives first if they exist, then anywhere-but-US second.

Notably the Canadian countermeasure will have no tariffs on Mexican auto products and none on car parts from US or Mexico, unlike the US side tariffs.

Yes, but we have to move past the "it can't be that bad for my business" and the "don't blame me, I didn't vote for Trump" excuses. Blue state residents have to actually stand up for their state and fellow residents against this administration. I've been impressed by some of the protests in LA in support of Mexico, but Sacramento, Olympia, Albany, Salem have a lot of legwork to do to protect itself from the Trump admin. Canadian actions are meant to spur individual Americans to action as well.

I get that there are many Americans and American companies that do great things. Hell, I still have a Costco membership because they treat their workers and customers really well for a large chain, and have demonstrably rejected the "anti-woke" movement.

But understand that if this keeps going on I'm not renewing it this year. This is because every dollar that goes to Washington DC through US federal taxes is metaphorical ammunition for Trump, to illegally threaten to withhold funding for refusing to go along with his demands.

The results are expected, but it's the fact that the US President is stupid enough to hurt his own country having the entire country's resources at his own disposal to know better, is a bit shocking. It's like stepping on a rake while pointing and looking at it.

It can get you fired from Target

“That’s the kind of disruption we would never expect,” said Hung. “I never heard of this happening until now. It’s definitely quite a bit of headwinds."

This is exactly the reason we have to affect blue states like CA/WA/NY/MA just like red states with our dollar. So many people and companies still have their head in the sand and don't realize the Trump rhetoric is a real threat to Canada and more than just trolling. They don't really become aware of it until it actually affects them and that's not limited to Republicans.