Growing up I played a lot of different sports. As I got older I focused on basketball, and became pretty good for a Canadian high school basketball player. After finding out I was a half-step below the CIS level when I started attending the University of Manitoba, I...
I can already hear your comments. What kind of moron writes a post called Why You Shouldn’t Go To University on a site called My University Money? This site is all about going to university, and all sorts of tips on maximizing your experience. It’s all...
I recently came across this video when talking to a friend of mine, and instantly became a huge fan of it (maybe even a prophet for it?). The message is definitely brilliant, but the medium in which it is delivered is equally outstanding (as a University of Manitoba...
I know most of you are wondering how it is possible to save money at the bar, especially since your guard goes down once you’re a little buzzed and you forget all about frugality. It took me about three years to discover the pattern that was common among older...
I’m not sure if the book store market near you is as cornered as the one I live in, but growing up near Winnipeg, MB, the monster chain of Chapters came in and destroyed the competition. We used to have a nice little locally-run bookstore named McNally Robinson. ...
As a site that purports to focus on post-secondary issues, with an eye towards finance, I simply couldn’t ignore the Brandon University strike any longer. For those of you that are unaware of the situation, the professors walked off the job on Oct.12 (a month and a...
If you have been considering buying a tablet, you have for sure heard that RIM dropped the prices of their playbooks by $3oo dollars. Like many people I was very tempted to go right to the closest shopping center and pick one up,...
Some think tanks have been cautiously warning Canadians (and really most countries in the Western World) that as a result of new austerity measures and the demographic issues that are about to hit us, the real cost of tuition for the average post-secondary student...