by Steve Randall 01 Nov 2019
November is Financial Literacy Month, encouraging Canadians to take charge of their finances by making a budget, having a savings and debt reduction plan, and understanding their financial rights and responsibilities.
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada has weekly themes through the month including starting with a budget, setting financial goals, being a smarter financial consumer, and borrowing money wisely.
Meanwhile Advocis, The Financial Advisors Association of Canada, has set Canadians a 30-day challenge to take concrete steps toward transforming their finances.
“More and more, we are hearing from people across all age groups and backgrounds about the need for programs targeting financial literacy,” said Greg Pollock, President and CEO, Advocis. “Advocis is again supporting Financial Literacy Month this year with a set of initiatives designed to help Canadians take charge of their finances. Fully supported by our 13,000 members in 40 chapters across the country, we are extending a challenge to the public to do the little things this month that can make a big difference in their overall financial health.”
The Ontario Securities Commission says that its focus for the month is connecting with people across the province, in person, online, and by phone.
“Improving people’s financial knowledge, skills, confidence and behaviours is a key area of focus of the OSC,” said Tyler Fleming, Director of the Investor Office at the Ontario Securities Commission. “People need the tools to make informed financial decisions, and through our financial literacy and investor education activities we’re helping millions of people get smarter about money.”
What is Lorem Ipsum?
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Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Where does it come from?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.