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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Founded by Michael Katchen in 2014, Wealthsimple has been slowly expanding its financial products for Canadians. In early 2024, Wealthsimple beta launched its Visa Infinite card, which offered cash back and some additional benefits. Since …
We all know that post-secondary education is getting more and more expensive. Fortunately, the Canadian government created the Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP), a tax-deferred investment account to help families pay for a child’s post-secondary …
I have always enjoyed hearing from readers, whether it’s via comments or emails. Quite often, I learn a few things through these reader interactions and sometimes a blog post comes out as a result. That’s …
Welcome to our latest monthly dividend income update! We have been doing these monthly updates since the birth of this blog to track our financial independence progress. It is our way of showing that it …
Welcome to Part 3 and the final part of our 20-day Taiwan trip report. I hope you have enjoyed reading about our trip and seeing all the pictures so far. After 8 days in Taiwan, …
Last week I shared the first three days of our Taiwan trip with a lot of pictures to give readers an idea of what our trip was about. Taiwan is very tourist-friendly and thus is …
As many of you know, years ago I created the word Tawcan by combining Taiwan and Canada (it should have been Taican but that’s not very original for me so I changed it slightly). The …
