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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2021 Goals and Resolutions – Q1 Update

2021 Goals and Resolutions Q1 Update

For the past three years, I have set up goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year and posted them on this blog. I then provided quarterly updates on how I was doing. I …

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Dividend Income – March 2021 Update

Tawcan dividend income March 2021

Like February, we spent March mostly at home. However, with two weeks of spring break, we had to find activities to keep both kids busy. With the weather getting warmer and longer daylight, we thought …

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Have I failed as a father?

have I failed as a father

Since Mrs. T is originally from Denmark and I am originally from Taiwan, we both know the benefits of being able to speak more than one language. Naturally, we wanted our kids to be able …

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Are we going to see a roaring ’20s?

Are we going to see a roaring 20s

Some say that history repeats itself. Are we going to see a repeat of the roaring ’20s a hundred years later?  The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 influenza pandemic, lasted from February 1918 …

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Five lessons I’ve learned as an investor

five lessons I've learned as an investor

Long time readers may remember that the first stock I purchased was ING Canada. ING Canada caught my interest initially because my parents used ING for their house insurance. I also thought ING Canada owned …

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