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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Long time readers will know that we are at a point where our annual dividend income can pay for our core expenses. However, core expenses do not include expenses like eating out, entertainment, vacation, charitable …
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 …
As many of you know, we deploy a hybrid investing strategy where we invest in both dividend paying stocks and index ETFs. This strategy provides us with a predictable monthly dividend income as well as …
A while ago, I wrote a VEQT review where I performed a thorough and deep analysis of the Vanguard All-Equity ETF. While I really like VEQT, we ended up buying XEQT for our kids’ RESPs …
Long-time readers know we are deploying a hybrid investing strategy – we invest in both dividend growth stocks and index ETFs in our dividend portfolio. For our kids’ RESPs, we have switched from multi-ETFs to …
Two weeks ago, I went on my first business trip of 2025 in order to attend two trade shows – Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona and Embedded World in Nuremberg. Since MWC was Monday …
A new year means new TFSA contribution room for Canadians and permanent residents 18 years and older. In case you’re not familiar with the TFSA, please check out the ultimate TFSA guide to understand the …
