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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Some of you may recall that I moved my self-directed TFSA with TD Direct Investing and my self-directed RRSP with Questrade to Wealthsimple Trade back in May. In case you’re wondering, I wrote a real …
Mrs. T and I are working toward financial independence by investing in dividend stocks and index ETFs. Our plan is to live off dividends by having between $60,000 to $70,000 in dividend income. We may …
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 …
We are hybrid investors. This means we invest in both individual dividend paying stocks and index ETFs. We are doing that because we want to construct our own ETF that can generate a steady dividend …
I hope everyone is enjoying the last bit of summer (or winter if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere). Because we were in Denmark and Iceland for over 7 weeks starting at the end of April …
Back in 2017, I wrote a post titled “Does Work Define Who You Are?” In it, I posed the question – why do we tell people what we do for work when we first meet …
It’s hard to believe 2024 is already halfway done. I don’t know about you but I feel that as I get older, each year seems to go by faster and faster. Weird heh? For the …
