Fadi El-Eter

Every time a new iPhone is out, Canadians wait in line every day for months (until the new iPhone is available in abundance) to buy it. For the untrained eye, this might look like a Canadian obsession with new technology, especially with new iPhones. But,...

Canadian banks are finding that Twitter is a powerful platform to gain more clients by going casual with their existing/potential clients and pretending that they are the nicest people on earth... Anyhow, I found it interesting to know how many Twitter...

Newcomers to Canada realize, within a few weeks, that having a credit card makes a lot of things easier of them. They can shop easier, they don't have to pay transaction fees, and they can shop online anywhere. However, with no credit history whatsoever,...

Note: This post applies to Canada and the United States. I don't know about the rest of the world. I have signed a lease on a brand new car yesterday (note: the brand is not Toyota), I thought I was getting a pretty good deal on the car. However, when...

Try traveling from any airport in the world and you'll feel like Alice in Wonderland after drinking the shrinking potion: everything is bigger at the airport, much bigger. You find huge TicTacs, Toblerones (I have no idea why Toblerones are very...

After a few months of absence, I am going back to writing on my blog. Since I am actively looking for a car, I did a research to find what are the top 10 car makers in Canada. Here they are (each Car Maker is followed by the percentage of cars sold with...

I love watching just for laughs - it really makes me laugh and it makes me proud, since it's made right here in Montreal. But, unfortunately, it's fake! If you don't believe me, let me give you a few proofs: I've been living in Montreal for over 8...

No - I didn't make a mistake while typing the title of this post - I really meant "get" and not "pay". In my last post, I revealed that (most) banks do not charge an cash advance fees if your credit card is in a credit position. Now that this was...

Cash advance fees - we all hate them! Sometimes we withdraw money from our credit cards (often it is a very small amount) to cover for purchases in stores that do not accept credit cards, and we are dinged with the most inhumane fees ever. Banks charge at...

I watched today a very nice video on Bloomberg, about a plan to build an underwater hotel in Dubai for a total cost of $120 million. Apparently, that wasn't Dubai's first attempt to build an underwater hotel; the HydroPolis hotel that was planned back in...