T Thoughts

We examine poverty and the way online discussions incorrectly influence reality of young women. From the infamous $300 date to not eating at the Cheesecake Factory we analyze the incorrect narratives around dating and how they can intersect with human rights violations Music by https://linktr.ee/jeffkaale_ https://ca.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/average-canadian-salary-by-age https://maytree.com/publications/reducing-poverty-among-minimum-wage-workers-in-ontario-potential-impact-of-cwas/#:~:text=As%20such%2C%20the%20Official%20Poverty,is%20determined%20to%20be%20%2420%2C508. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1110001601&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.1&pickMembers%5B1%5D=3.1&pickMembers%5B2%5D=5.1&pickMembers%5B3%5D=4.3&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2005&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2019&referencePeriods=20050101%2C20190101  https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/ending-poverty#:~:text=According to the most recent,7.1 per cent in 2019.  https://unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/our-w

Discussing the financial implications of long distance dating, accidents co on the highway and some other random stuff. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tthoughts/episodes/Please-let-him-be-in-the-same-postcode---Podmas-6-e2pcot

It was a busy year we still had time to read for the annual book review and it was quite a variety. We started from Relationships and Confidence from The School of Life to Black Women in America edited by G. Lerner and we ended with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

Another year gone so another annual summary of lessons learned and quotes stolen.

Merry Christmas everyone and a quick update from the Eurovision trip

Declining literacy, increasing consumer debt and bank layoffs - they’re stories we are seeing more often on the news, but how do they impact your fiscal year end? Plus why are Toronto hotels offering monthly rental plans?

Considering the purchases that were or were not necessary last quarter along with revealing plans for the winter

When no spend October goes completely wrong and looking at how to bounce back from a spending binge.

Minimum wage is set to go up in Ontario but the property market is still crazy and inflation doesn’t really feel like it’s down. Employers, their ongoing requests to return to work and going back over financial fundamentals when you may be earning more but actually have less to spend.

“That stock is down 97% y’all at this point I’m holding onto it for me to humble myself.” Catching up on the investing temperature from the 2023 Toronto Money Show Toronto and reviewing: -Why Black investors should consider the ethics and practices involved in private lending -What investing lessons can you learn when you have decided you are not retiring at 40 or quitting your job to be a day trader.

The burden of booking a trip while single and the increasing cost of tipping while dining out

Race based Affirmative Action was struck down by US Supreme Court. The challenge of podcasting when you are holding back and why we won’t stop podcasting.

Discussing my trip to Cuba and the annoyances of the human population on planes and airports . . .

If you want the job done right then might as well do it yourself, it can be taxes or websites designs

A tragic fairy tale based on real life events as witnessed by me

A tragic fairy tale based on real life events as witnessed by Me

A random poetry reading

Discussing the new drinking regulations set in Canada while trying to figure out new equipment

When you meet up with people from the motherland but they not actually from the motherland

Looking back at the year, books of the year and of course quotes of the year