The cliff that never cameWhat actually counts as a US assetThe filing obligation that arrives even when the tax does...
Shiraz Ahmed
Thirty Days, One Form, and the Registration Rule Canadians Think Went Away
The rule people think was struck downWho this actually applies toWhat the final rule changedThe biometric change that...
The Cuts Are Not Coming: Rebuilding a Cross-Border Plan Around Rates That Stopped Falling
The assumption almost every plan was quietly built onWhat the Bank of Canada has actually signalledWhy the American...
Ballast No More: What a Rising Term Premium Means for Fixed Income Held in Two Currencies
Thirty years compressed into one numberWhy the world’s largest single investor is rewriting its bond mandateThe...
Elbows Up, Eyes Open: Backing Canadian Industrial Policy Without Doubling a Bet You Already Own
What Ottawa actually committed toThis is a programme, not an announcementThe four ways a Canadian household is already...
Cross-Border Estate Planning and U.S. Estate Tax: The Canada-U.S. Guide
A 2026 plain-English guide to how two very different death-tax systems can reach the same estate at once. Canada and...
Roth IRA in Canada: What Happens to Your Account When You Move
A 2026 plain-English guide to the treaty election, the deadline most people miss, and the one mistake that cannot be...
Read the Provisions, Not the Headline: What Canadian Bank Q3 Results Say About How Far the Trade War Has Travelled
Six banks reported into the worst week of the trade fightProvisions are the number that actually mattersWhat that...
Two Central Banks, Two Directions, Forty-Eight Hours Apart: What a Widening Rate Gap Does to a Cross-Border Household
What Warsh said, and what it did to the odds overnightWhat the Bank of Canada is walking into on WednesdayThe gap, and...
Eight Days and Counting: What Canada’s September 8 Counter-Tariffs Change for Cross-Border Families and Owners
The negotiation is over. This is the part that costs money.What actually gets more expensive on September 8The GM...
Should You Close Your TFSA Before Moving to the U.S.?
A 2026 plain-English framework for deciding whether to collapse your TFSA before you become a U.S. person. The...
RRSP, TFSA and FHSA When You Move to the U.S.
A 2026 plain-English guide to how each of your Canadian registered accounts behaves once you become a U.S. resident....
Picks and Shovels North of the Border: Churchill Falls, the AI Power Crunch, and Canada as an Electricity Exporter
Most people experience the AI boom as a short list of ticker symbols. Six or seven American names, one currency, one...
Fifty Percent, Live: What a Collapsed Trade Deal Means for Cross-Border Families and Owners
Most deadlines resolve quietly. This one did not. For three weeks the story was a negotiation. Meetings in Washington,...
Priced for Perfection: Canadian Bank Earnings, Hidden Concentration, and the Portfolio You Did Not Choose
There is a version of this week that writes itself. Six large Canadian banks report quarterly results, most of them...