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 – November 2016 Update

Can you believe it was only last month when Donald Trump won the US presidential election? For some reason, I feel like the presidential result happened years ago. Weird eh? Since the presidential election, we have …

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10 Financial Tips for millennials

By definition I am a millennial but I really don’t feel like one. Why? Because I was born in the early 1980s and have been working for over 10 years. Nowadays, people seem to associate …

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The four different stages of financial competency in life

When I read Physician on Fire’s recent post on Financial Independence vs Financial Freedom my brain went wild (like spidey sense wild!) and I started wondering – Do we go through our life in different financial stages? Just like …

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The Ultimate Black Friday Survival Guide

The US Thanksgiving is around the corner. Many people associate Thanksgiving with crazy sales because of Black Friday. During this time, stores lower their prices to entice people to spend money and buy things. Every …

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Dividend stocks to monitor

It’s hard to believe that our last dividend stock purchase was back in September. I have to admit, it’s a bit weird not to have purchased anything for the last 3 months. However considering that we have …

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Stuff

I typically like to write an article with a specific theme. This article is an exception. Lately my mind seems to be going 300 km/hr. I can’t pinpoint the exact root cause, it’s probably due …

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