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Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money & Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery
In this book Ellen Roseman distills the financial advice she gives in her columns and blogs into 81 quick tips that all Canadians can use to help them spend sensibly, save money, and avoid costly consumer traps. This book of "personal finance greatest hits" is filled with illustrative examples and cautionary advice from Roseman and stories from her faithful readers. Filled with a wealth of information, the book includes the low-down on dealing with banks and car dealers, cutting costs of communication services, improving your credit, buying and renovating a home, fighting online fraud, ensuring you have the right insurance, and more.
Money 101: The One Class You Can't Afford to Cut!
You are working hard and trying to save some money, but at the end of the day, there never seems to be enough to go around. Money 101 is a crash course on financial basics from one of Canada's most trusted personal finance columnists. Ellen Roseman offers easy-to-understand advice on a wide range of topics, including tips on spending less and saving more, managing a budget, negotiating mortgages and car leases, getting the insurance you need, investing, saving for children's education and your own retirement, and much more. Money 101 helps you master personal finance without pain, whether you're a novice or experienced. Your own personal tutor, it'll teach you to get better control of your money so you'll have more to save and invest.
Money 201: More Personal Finance Advice for Every Canadian
Money 201 is the second installment of a basic course in financial literacy for Canadians. A follow-up to the best-selling Money 101, this book offers more street-smart advice from Canada's most trusted personal finance writer. There's always something new to learn when it comes to your finances, and Ellen Roseman offers easy-to-understand advice on a wide range of topics. The tough test of dealing with everyday finances is one you can't afford to flunk. Let Money 201 be your own personal tutor on all the financial basics you need to save, spend, borrow, and invest money wisely.
Ellen Roseman
Toronto Star columnist on Consumer Affairs, Personal Finance Author & Speaker
Ellen Roseman is a journalist who sticks up for ordinary Canadians. She's been advocating for consumer rights for the past 35 years. She is also a personal finance and consumer affairs columnist with the Toronto Star’s business section and a former columnist and associate managing editor of The Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail. She also is a business commentator for CBC Radio. Her books, Money 101: Every Canadian’s Guide to Personal Finance, and Money 201: More Personal Finance Advice for Every Canadian, are based on a series she did in the Toronto Star. +
The columns, which have now morphed into Money 911, are an easy-to-understand introduction to personal finance for those of us who are short of time and money. She is also the author of Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money and Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery.
When you hear about consumer issues in Canada, you can’t avoid finding references to Ellen Roseman. She’s become a brand name for activism and a champion at helping consumers fight back against injustices. People praise her direct, down to earth and common sense writing style.
Ellen’s personal finance and consumer columns appear in the Toronto Star’s business section on Wednesday, Saturday and Monday.
She was the Star’s business editor for two years (1997-1998). Before that, she was with the Globe and Mail as a columnist and associate managing editor of the Report on Business.
Her books, Money 101: Every Canadian’s Guide to Personal Finance, and Money 201: More Personal Finance Advice for Every Canadian, are an easy-to-understand introduction to personal finance for those of us who are short of time and money.
She’s the author of four other books, Ellen Roseman’s Money Guide for Modern Families, Canadian Parent’s Sourcebook, Canadian Consumers’ Survival Book and Consumer, Beware!
Her latest book, published in December 2012, is: Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money and Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery.
She’s been teaching courses in investing and personal finance at the University of Toronto’s continuing studies department since 2004. She also does Financial Basics workshops at Ryerson University.
Ellen is on the board of FAIR (Canadian Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights) and Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO). --
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