Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights I am a bit late on this update -it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, and the temperature is heating up so I’ve been spending a lot of time outdoors. Started coaching my son (Isaac’s) soccer two days a week.  So far 2/4 have been rained out unfortunately, but it’s been fun! Isaac turned 6 at the end of April, so we had a few different parties at our place. Went to both Winnipeg Jets playoff games – which were pretty underwhelming, but still had a good time. Took the wife out to a restaurant she hadn’t been to yet, played in a curlin ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights Since selling the cabin, we’ve got to work on a lot of the house renovations we said we were going to do.  New roof – done.  New floors – done. Rip out old fireplace – done.  We also picked up some new furniture.  One of the last things is to get the place re-painted.  We’ve started this and the whole job should be done this week! The kids had a school concert – it was Isaac’s first ever and they both did great.  Holland had her first ever sleepover party at a friends house last weekend, everyone survived ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights The new year is here, the holidays are behind us, and we are back into the normal routines (school, dance, soccer, curling etc).   I played in the Ironman  Curling Bonspiel over the weekend, which was a ton of fun – although nothing like real curling.  Basically you curl on the river, in -30 weather and the conditions are insane….no sliding out, just hucking the rock as hard as you can and hoping it lands somewhere in play.  It was still lots of fun though, they had beer inside, everyone had flasks outside, an ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights We made it!  2023 is upon us, and holy shit was it a busy December to cap the year off.  Here are a few highlights…. Holland had her winter dance recital.  This was her second ever recital – last year she did 1 routine, this year she is in 2 classes (Acro & Jazz) so she performed two different dances.  She killed both of em of course…. Like complete idiots, we decided to do a bunch of renovations in December (right before we were scheduled to host 2 Christmas dinners and a New Years Party).  Somehow, we m ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights Well, the waiting is finally over, I got to see Canada play 3 games in a World Cup, and although I would have loved to see them get a win, or advance from the group – it was always going to be a challenge.  This World Cup should give them some experience for 2026 when we co-host the tournament.  It should also lead to a few (more) of our players signing contracts over in Europe which will definitely help.   I finally bought one of the chairs I’ve had my eye on for years.  I haven’t had it delivered yet, but he ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights Another busy month!  My soccer season started, the kids are in dance & swimming, and I started my curling “career” with a win! The cabin has officially sold, the money has cleared and we’ve begun spending it/investing it and making plans for the rest of it.  The first thing we did was we each took a bit of money to “treat ourselves”.  Amber bought a bunch of new clothes, spent some money on a girls trip and got a new Christmas Tree.  In typical Jordan fashion – I got an XBOX One Series X and some booze…hah.&nbs ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights – February 2022 This is going to be a quick update. Not really feeling writing an update this month as everything kind of sucks in the world….but I haven’t missed one since I started, so I’ll do a quick one! Financial Highlights for February: I’ve been really focusing on maxing my TFSA out this year.  Very early on I never contributed to it at all – as I was only putting money into an RRSP.  I  have since switched my focus.  As of January 1st, I had $29,614 contribution room available.  In the first 2 mont ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights – December 2021 Today 2021 will come to and end.  We will begin 2022 much the same as we started 2021. On the verge of a lockdown, so much uncertainty, and still no clear end in sight.  Luckily the high vaccination rates and the seemingly less severe omicron are keeping hospitalizations and deaths “low”, and we will continue to hope this will be the 4th and final wave… We celebrated my mom’s 65th Birthday earlier this month, with a nice dinner at Cibo (one of my favourite restaurants here in Winnipeg). We had a small – but n ..read more

Dividend Income & Portfolio Update Personal Highlights – November 2021 I feel like every month I say “I cannot believe it’s already XYZ Month….but god damn, the year is almost over..this is crazy. Our province did their annual bourbon lottery/release.  I didn’t get as lucky this year with anything too crazy- but was still able to pick up a few bottles- including Stagg Jr, Little Book Chapter 5 and Eagle Rare.+ Watched both the Canadian Men soccer games.  Half way through World Cup qualifying Canada is sitting in 1st place and has a pretty damn good chance of qualifying for Qatar ..read more

With the year coming to an end, I thought it would be a good time to look over my portfolio and share one or two thoughts on each stock I currently own. Just a little blurb about each, how it has performed for me, if I still like it, and if I’d consider buying more. Going through the list, I noticed a few things: Overall I am pretty happy with the mix of stocks and funds I own There is still SOME value to be found out there Over the last couple of months, I’ve received quite a few dividend increases. A few examples: Telus, Power Corp, Manulife, European Residential Reit & Diversified Roya ..read more