“Mom, there’s a word that people use here that means ‘hat,’” my 10-year-old daughter told me one day during our first winter in Vancouver.

“It sounds like ‘tunic.’”

“Tunic?” I asked. “A hat? Are you …

British Columbia’s capital city of Victoria used to be dubbed a destination for the “newly wed and nearly dead.” Yes, it was — and still is — popular among both newlyweds and retirees, but with …

We recently reported on the Moneysense annual ranking of Best Places to Live in Canada. As part of this year’s survey, the publication also ranked Canada’s Best Places for New Immigrants.

Six of the top …

Every year, Moneysense rates Canada’s Best Places to Live, weighing factors as diverse as weather, incomes and taxes, job prospects, access to health care, home affordability, crime rates, and overall lifestyle, including the percentage of …

When you’re thinking about where to retire, are you thinking about Canada?

Canada may not come to mind as readily as, say, Mexico, Costa Rica, or the south of France, but plenty of people do …