Free Tax Clinics, File Your Taxes for Free!

With tax season upon us, it's time to file your taxes, and lets face it, filing your taxes can be taxing. In case you didn't know, most students are eligible for a free tax filing at a tax clinic.

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Pests, Pests, Pests!!

Let’s face it, pests can be real pests. As much as we don’t like them, they are everywhere and have figured out how to live around us and constantly try to live with us. Bed bugs, mice, spiders, flies, cockroaches, all these critters can cause significant damage in your homes so we wanted to give you some tips on how to prevent them and get rid of them.

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How to Prepare Your Place for Winter

Winter is coming! With winter right around the corner and the first signs of snowfall showing up across different cities in Canada, we decided to give you some ideas on how to prepare your place for winter.

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Advice to my first-year self

In this week’s blog, we reached out to some of our community members and asked them to give us one piece of advice they would give to their first-year self and here are some of the responses we got.

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More Tips for First-Year Students

In last weeks blog we discussed some tips for first year students. That blog inspired this week’s blog about biggest regrets and lessons learned from students. We put together a list of some of the most valuable lessons from current and previous students. Please take a read because some of these are real eye openers.