Workshop & Webinar Topics
Learning Money Management Skills | Adult Education

Financial Living

65 Side Hustles: When trimming expenses isn’t enough, it’s time to look at the other side of your budget – income. This session explores 65 real side hustle ideas and helps you figure out which ones match your skills, schedule, and financial goals. A little extra income can make a big difference.

Available in English or French

75 Ways to Save on Household Expenses: The cost of living keeps rising, but your paycheck doesn’t always keep up. This session is packed with 75 practical, easy-to-implement tips for cutting costs on groceries, utilities, transportation, entertainment, and more. Every dollar saved is a dollar working for you.

Available in English or French

Cautious Consumerism: Fraud and scams cost Canadians billions of dollars every year but even careful people can be caught off guard. This session helps you understand how identity theft and fraud happen, how to protect yourself, and exactly what to do if you become a victim. Knowledge is your best defense.

Available in English or French

Cent$ible Celebrations: Planning a celebration shouldn’t mean sacrificing your financial peace of mind. This session gives you a practical framework for organizing any event, big or small, while staying on budget and on purpose. Celebrate what matters without the financial stress that follows.

Available in English

Holidays Without Credit: The holidays should bring joy and not a January debt hangover. This session helps you re-imagine how you approach the holiday season with a realistic plan that honours what matters to you, without starting the new year in the red. Plan ahead, feel good, and celebrate without financial regret.

Available in English

Death, Taxes and Beyond: Getting your financial house in order is one of the most caring things you can do for the people you love. This session takes the overwhelm out of estate planning by walking you through taxes, insurance, and the key documents your family would need if something happened to you. One step at a time.

Food and Finance: Two of the most common goals, eating better and spending less, don’t have to compete with each other. This session connects the dots between meal planning, grocery habits, and your food budget, giving you practical tools to save money while nourishing your family well. Simple changes, real savings.

Available in English or French

Holiday Money Hangover: The party’s over and the bills are here. This session helps you face your post-holiday debt head-on with a clear plan to pay it off and a strategy to make sure next year looks different. It’s not about guilt; it’s about getting back on track.

Available in English

Home Owner Basics: Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions you’ll ever make, and it’s about more than just the mortgage. This session helps you figure out if you’re truly ready, what to expect financially, and how to make a choice that’s right for your life and your budget. Go in informed, not overwhelmed.

Available in English or French

Investment Basics – Making The Most Of Your Money: Investing doesn’t have to be intimidating. This session breaks down the fundamentals, savings plans, investment types, fees, and risk, in plain language, so you can start making informed decisions about your money’s future. This is education, not advice; clarity, not complexity.

Available in English or French

Irregular Income: Managing money on an unpredictable income takes a different approach and using the right system can make all the difference. This session offers three practical strategies designed for anyone with variable earnings, from freelancers to seasonal workers, to help you feel in control no matter what month it is.

Available in English or French

Mind Your Money: The Psychology of Saving: Knowing you should save and actually doing it are two very different things. This session digs into what gets in the way: your mindset, your habits, your relationship with money. It then gives you science backed strategies to make saving feel less like a struggle and more like a habit.

Available in English or French

Mind Your Money: An Introduction to the Psychology of Spending: Have you ever bought something and wondered why? Marketers spend billions understanding what drives us to spend, and this session gives you a behind-the-scenes look at those tactics. Once you see them, you can’t unsee them and that awareness becomes your superpower.

Available in English

Technology and Spending: Canadians spend an average of 11 hours a day on screens, and marketers know exactly how to use that time to influence your spending. This session pulls back the curtain on how algorithms, data, and digital design shape your financial decisions, and gives you the tools to take back control.

Available in English

Money and Mental Health: Participants will learn how money and mental health are tied together, learn practical steps to increase their sense of financial well-being and learn where to find help.

Available in English

Organizing Your Finances in 1 Month: Participants will learn what important documents they need to have, how to store them securely, and how to create a “just in case something happens to me” sheet so their loved ones can take care of their affairs.

Available in English or French

Planning For Temporarily Reduced Income: Participants who are facing reduced income will learn strategies on how to cope financially with their new reality.

Available in English

Vacations on a Budget: Participants will learn a variety of ways to save money while planning and going on vacation so they can have fun without worrying about money.

Available in English