July 1, 2018 | Canada Insurance, Insurance Trivia
Sir John. A. Macdonald is well known to Canadians as our first Prime Minister, but did you know he was also the first president of the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (Manulife)? Macdonald was born in Scotland and moved to Kingston, Upper Canada during his...
June 1, 2018 | Individual and Family Health Insurance, Life Insurance
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease? COPD is an obstructive, long-term lung disease that results in difficulty breathing. COPD damages the airways (bronchioles) that transport oxygen into the lungs, and it also results in damage to the air sacs at the end of...
May 1, 2018 | Life Insurance
Many people think that having a stroke automatically excludes them from obtaining life insurance protection, but this is not the case. Factors that insurance companies look at include the number of strokes suffered, the amount of damage caused by the stroke(s), the...
April 1, 2018 | Individual and Family Health Insurance, Life Insurance
Hypertension, often referred to as “high blood pressure”, is the abnormally high blood pressure of the arteries. A good way to picture high blood pressure is to imagine pumping too much air into an inflatable device. Keep on doing this and eventually, the...
March 15, 2018 | Life Insurance
Many Canadians choose to donate to charities in an effort to make life better for those less fortunate. Charities play an important part in Canadian society, raising money for programs that would not otherwise be able to financially survive. Before donating, it is...
