Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.

I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.

My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.

Today, the portfolio generates over $5,400 in dividends per month. We originally dreamed of becoming financially independent and living off dividends by 2025. Although we could live off dividends by supplementing it with a part time income in 2025, we aren't in a rush to cross the so called "finish line." Therefore, we are taking it easy and we plan to realize the dream of living off dividends before 2030.

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2025 Goals and Resolutions – Q1 Update

2025 Goals and Resolutions - Q1 Update

Welcome to the first quarterly update of my 2025 goals and resolutions. Since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year, published them on this blog, and provided quarterly updates.  …

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Dividend Income – March 2025 Update

Dividend Income - March 2025 Update

Welcome to another monthly dividend income update. After our financial epiphany in 2011, we got very serious with dividend growth investing. Since then, we have grown our dividend portfolio from basically nothing to over seven …

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2024 Stock Transactions Analysis

2024 Stock Transactions Analysis

Because we are still in the accumulation phase of our financial independence journey, we make many stock transactions every year, mostly purchasing more stocks from new capital and occasionally selling shares. In our December 2024 …

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Dividend Income – February 2025 Update

Dividend Income - February 2025 Update

Welcome to another dividend income update. Since the creation of this blog back in 2014, I have been posting monthly dividend income reports to keep ourselves accountable, and also to demonstrate that it is possible …

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