Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.
I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.
Today, the portfolio generates over $4,500 in dividends per month. Our dream is to become financially independent and live off dividends by 2025.
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As many of you know, we deploy a hybrid investing strategy where we invest in both dividend paying stocks and index ETFs. This strategy provides us with a predictable monthly dividend income as well as …
A while ago, I wrote a VEQT review where I performed a thorough and deep analysis of the Vanguard All-Equity ETF. While I really like VEQT, we ended up buying XEQT for our kids’ RESPs …
Long-time readers know we are deploying a hybrid investing strategy – we invest in both dividend growth stocks and index ETFs in our dividend portfolio. For our kids’ RESPs, we have switched from multi-ETFs to …
Income tax is one of those unavoidable things in life. If you have a working income, you most likely will need to pay income tax to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA). Typically your employer will …
Thanks to higher demands and supply shortages, oil prices and oil-related stocks have gone for a nice run over the last year and a half. Despite this run, I continue to believe that renewable energy …
If you’re reading this blog, there is a good chance that you are interested in financial independence retire early. More specifically, you are looking to invest in dividend growth stocks and live off dividends when …
Earlier this year, I discussed three key reasons why we don’t invest in GICs and have no plan to invest in them any time soon. After reading that article, a few readers asked about Canadian …
