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Financial Literacy Resources

Compiled by the Black Creek Financial Action Network

Personal Finances

  • The McGill Personal Finance Essentials course is available in English and French and aims to enhance participants’ knowledge and skills related to their own personal finances: https://www.mcgillpersonalfinance.com/
  • Money Matters, free, introductory financial literacy program designed for adult learners. If you want to learn on your own there are a number of resources. https://abcmoneymatters.ca/learners/

Strengthening Consumer Financial Protection
An open letter to Ontario’s Minister of Government and Consumer Services regarding fringe financial services.

Trends and Issues

BCFAN Resources

BCFAN on Retiring on a Low Income

Black Creek Financial Action Network sponsored a presentation by John Stapleton about Retiring on a Low Income on June 25, 2013. John’s work challenges mainstream thinking about retirement for people on a low income, and has suggestions from a practical as well as policy level to increase financial awareness and planning for seniors.

To find out more about CPP/OAS & Guaranteed Income Supplement see:

“Ottawa’s financial literacy strategy is noble but, it’s not enough,” Opinion article by Brenda Spotton Visano published in the Globe and Mail in 2015.

Student Finances