Budget

How to buy a budget laptop without getting screwed

PC brands love to tout expensive, high-end laptops, but history has shown most people buy a budget laptop. And why not? A $500 laptop can be a capable machine that will serve you well for years. There’s just one problem: the brands are on to you. They’ve flooded the market with hundreds of slightly tweaked…

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Budget 2021 sets up a fight over high-interest loans

Though it got only a few lines in the hundreds of pages that made up Budget 2021, the federal government’s commitment to open talks on changing Canada’s “criminal rate of interest” has anti-poverty activists bracing for a battle with high-interest lenders.People walk pass a payday loan store in Oshawa Ont. on Saturday May 13, 2017.…

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