Author: Clint Curtis

660 – 724: as good. 725 – 759: as very good. 760 – 900: as excellent. What’s a good credit score for my age? Anywhere between 670 to 739 is considered good. A credit score between 740 to 799 is considered very good. Credit scores 800 and up are considered excellent. Someone with a VantageScore […]

Police certificates must be recent and not have expired. Police certificates will remain valid as long as the expiry date has not passed or as long as it was issued no more than three months before the date the applicant submits his or her application. How long is the validity of police clearance in Canada? […]

The Equifax group of companies includes Equifax Canada Co., which is a registered Canadian credit bureau that maintains Canadian credit report information, and Equifax Information Services LLC, which is a credit bureau that maintains U.S. credit report information. Is Canadian and US credit the same? Each country has its own unique credit reporting system with […]

1976. Canada’s last hangings were carried out in December 1962, although the de jure abolition of the death penalty did not come until 1976. However, every attempt to eliminate capital punishment has met with fierce opposition. When was Canada’s last execution? Dec. 11, 1962From Confederation in 1867 until Parliament abolished the death penalty in 1976, […]

The best way to go about this is to file a dispute with the credit bureaus, Equifax and TransUnion. They will look into the entry, and should they find it expired, they will take the steps needed to remove it from your credit report. How can I get something off my credit report in Canada? […]

The inauguration of the Peace Tower and its Carillon took place on July 1, 1927, the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. This major event attracted thousands of spectators to Parliament Hill and was marked by the first national and international radio broadcast in Canada. What happened in 1927 in Canada? August 20 – John Duncan MacLean […]

In 2014, Canada’s Conservative government passed a law that effectively created a two-tier citizenship program. In 2015, that law went into effect, making second class citizens of anyone who wasn’t born in Canada. Who would be considered a second-class citizen? A second-class citizen is a person who is systematically and actively discriminated against within a […]

‘hard’ credit check. The score that most Canadian lenders use is called a FICO score, previously known as the Beacon score. FICO, which is a U.S. company, sells its score to both Equifax and TransUnion. FICO says 90 per cent of Canadian lenders use it, including major banks. Which credit score check is most accurate? […]

1950s and 60s By the 1950s, jazz was popular across Canada, and a number of Canadian jazz artists became well known beyond their home country, most notably pianist Oscar Peterson, known as a virtuoso pianist and recording artists. Was jazz popular in the 1920s in Canada? From the 1920s to the 1950s, the good times […]

The ban on booze created a situation where organized crime thrived and access to alcohol was relatively easy. Moreover, the violence, rum-running, and smuggling continued even after the provincial bans on alcohol were repealed because prohibition was still going on south of the border. Why was prohibition a failure in Canada? The movement grew out […]