Quotes of the Day

If you're looking at residential rental properties, have a gander at the annual rental housing market survey the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (www.cmhc.ca) produces. The Conference Board of Canada (www.conferenceboard.ca) is one of several organizations that issue business and consumer confidence surveys. For a fee, the Board provides detailed analyses for specific regions. The information gleaned from these sources, like interest-rate projections, can help you gauge whether markets are in for a boom or a downturn. [2020] - Douglas Gray

Over time, some of the ways of limiting food will prove to be more effective than others. A popular method is to skip breakfast and have a late lunch (the 16:8 diet). Another is to eat 75% fewer calories for two days a week (the 5:2 diet). If you're a bit more adventurous, you can try skipping food a couple of days a week (Eat Stop Eat), or as the health pundit Peter Attia does, go hungry for an entire week every quarter. [2019] - David A. Sinclair

One of the things you can do to prevent difficult rent increase conversations is by having the rent increase talk at the very beginning when you have your tenant sign the lease agreement. Since most landlords don't have this conversation, let me suggest another alternative. Give your tenant 6 months advance notice before you increase the rent. If the tenant asks why, just explain that strata fees are going up, property taxes are too, inflation, etc... [2015] - Gary Wong

The first blockchain ETFs to hit the markets were BLOK and BLCN, both of which launched on January 17, 2018 (right at the time when Bitcoin was taking a hit). On January 29, 2018, another blockchain ETF, KOIN, showed its face in the competition. [2019] - Kiana Danial

DBT (dialectical behavior therapy) consists of four pillars joined by one overarching theme. The overarching theme is mindfulness, which gives you the ability to work through the other four: emotional regulation (getting control over our emotions), distress tolerance (our ability to handle emotional stressors), interpersonal effectiveness (how well we make our needs and feelings known to others), and self-management (taking care of ourselves, beginning with basic tasks like getting up in time to go to work or school).  [2023] - Peter Attia