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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Since joining the PC Insiders program, I have become more and more interested in the PC Optimum points program and how I could earn more points to redeem against grocery bills. To take advantage of …
I don’t typically write about current events and I have been trying to stay away from politically-related posts on purpose. Lately, however, is it harder and harder to not write about them. I am deeply …
As parents, we encountered a lot of struggles when Baby T1.0 was born, both emotionally and mentally. In the first few days of his life, Baby T1.0 lost 14% of his birth weight. While it’s …
What a year 2020 has been so far. Due to COVID-19, we have been social distancing since mid-March by staying at home as much as possible. The stock market started sliding in late February due …
The financial independence retire early movement is getting a lot of attention lately. While it’s nice to see the movement gaining traction, I feel most of the major media coverage has been very early retirement …
Long time reader will know that I have been doing regular monthly dividend income updates since this blog was born six years ago. I do these monthly dividend income updates to keep myself accountable and …
There are many similarities between the US and Canada when it comes to personal finance. One of the major key differences is how mortgage interest is treated when you file your income tax. In the …
