The Mogo Blog

How to start a personal finance group

If you’re anything like me, the notion of attempting to get your personal finances in order is scary as scary can be. Like many young Canadians, I never learned about the nuances of finance in school (side note: shouldn’t we be teaching our kids this? I would like to see a personal finance class overtake those stupid CAPP career classes we were all subjected to in high school. I took about ten personality tests that all said, “writer/teacher/creative-type” when I could have used some lessons abo

Join the Crowd: Artists and Designers and Everyone are using “Crowdfunding” to get things done, and I dig it

Lately it seems like everyone out there has something they want me to help them pay for, be it an album, a film, an art project, a book, schooling, or even helping their journalistic website stay afloat. And while that might sound like grumbling, I actually think it’s a cool offshoot of the power of the internet. “Crowdfunding” is not really new, per se, but with the increasing power of sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, getting a lot of people to give a little bit of money to make your proje

The best dates in Toronto - what to do on a Saturday night

Bored with dinner and a show? Is bowling and brunch passé? Spruce up your dating life this spring with wildly adventurous dates that are sure to amuse the object of your adoration. Adventure dating need not be expensive, but it does require imagination, a flare for the extraordinary and occasionally, a spare pair of pants. Circus Act Take a fantastic flying trapeze class at the Toronto School of Circus Arts [http://www.torontocircus.com/index.php?id=16]. Here, every Friday brave couples take t

Get out your beer goggles: The Vancouver Craft Beer Week is coming

Any beer drinker worth his or her salt knows that all brews are not created equal. BC has long been associated with a healthy—any maybe even a little snobby, in a good way!—wine industry, but it’s only in recent years that beer has started to get the same amount of attention in this province. Vancouver’s really been upping the ante on that front, especially where craft beers are concerned. For the uninitiated, craft beer is a more specialized, small batch version of the big guys. For every mass

The Canadian Mint makes a glow in the dark dinosaur coin

That headline is serious. As pictured above, the Royal Canadian Mint is going retro… VERY retro. The new, special edition, quarter features a (super tough to spell) pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dino – which was found near Grand Prairie, Alberta in the early 1970s. When the light goes out, the dino’s bones will glow. They’re only making 25,000 of these, so keep your eyes peeled and on the look out for this first run. Rumour has it, there will be another two runs of the coin. Want to get your hand