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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Dividend Income – February 2022 update

Tawcan dividend income Feb 2022

If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that we’d see a global pandemic, the Taliban taking back Afghanistan, racial injustice, devastating forest fires, heatwaves, destructive floods, attack of the US Capitol, and a …

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Be an owner

Be an owner

When it comes to dividend investing, I rely on a simple strategy – be an owner. Basically, I want to be the owner of a business that produces and sells products that people use every …

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2022 Goals and Resolutions

2022 goals and resolutions

Another new year, is it time for another set of new goals and resolutions? Or maybe not? Since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year and tracked them via …

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Dividend Income – January 2022 update

dividend income update

Wow, it’s hard to believe January 2022 is done and we’re in February already. Hopefully 2022 doesn’t fly by this quickly. Thanks to work giving me January 4th off, we enjoyed a fun day skiing …

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FIRE. RIP.

When I created this blog over seven years ago, the sole purpose was to chronicle our journey for financial independence and joyful life. I wanted to share my knowledge with like-minded people. I could have …

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