# homeless — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 11 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover homeless. Page: Feed: --- ## [It’s that time again – time to grow your pension!](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/20/its-that-time-again-time-to-grow-your-pension/) _2026-08-20 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ It’s worth paying your pension some attention and it’s also time to check it! As I have posted elsewhere this morning, for most people the pension they’ll check first is their state pension! Here’s mine – make sure you’re getting … Continue reading → ## [State pension on course for £500 rise as earnings growth hits 4.1%](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/20/state-pension-on-course-for-500-rise-as-earnings-growth-hits-4-1/) _2026-08-20 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Thanks to Ellie Carric for this look forward to later in the year when we discover how much we will “earn” in our state pension from April next year. I wish there were more articles as bonnie as this! I … Continue reading → ## [The horror of letting the taxman take your unspent pension pot!](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/20/the-horror-of-letting-the-taxman-take-your-unspent-pension-pot/) _2026-08-20 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ I have swum in a pool where mournful pensioners refill the water level with their tears. Bless Steve Hunt and all the others in that swimming pool. Open the article for page after page of indignation at the treasury’s designs … Continue reading → ## [Where have the IGCs gone? What are we using to compare VFM?](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/20/where-have-the-igcs-gone-what-are-we-using-to-compare-vfm/) _2026-08-20 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Royal London wrote the last IGC report I commented on. They always looked to IGCs to promote Royal London’s pension capacity. But IGC’s were published the same year as pension freedom came in and the DC workplace pension providers were … Continue reading → ## [2022 murder spelled out in court](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/19/2022-murder-spelled-out-in-court/) _2026-08-19 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Elyse Quenneville-Proulx killed 81‑year‑old Rollande Ducharme in 2022 – a woman living in a seniors’ residence and a total stranger. Among strange features of the incident is that a coroner initially waived an investigation. It was only later, and on the insistence of her niece, that the dead woman was found to have 34 knife \[…\] ## [Items on homelessness](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/19/items-on-homelessness/) _2026-08-19 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ There was a fire at a homeless camp on Atwater on Tuesday night, and not the first at that location. The Gazette has another item on homeless camps, this one on a large camp on Notre‑Dame East, where roughly 150 people now live. The services mentioned mostly consist of a toilet and help in finding \[…\] ## [Charges suspended in Rezayi case](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/19/charges-suspended-in-rezayi-case/) _2026-08-19 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Charges against 11 other teenagers in the incident that saw Nooran Rezayi cut down by a police bullet last September in Longueuil have been suspended. They’re calling it a question juridique complexe but it’s obvious that police had to own up that there was no reason to use force against those kids. ## [La Presse’s series on ruelles vertes](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/19/la-presses-series-on-ruelles-vertes/) _2026-08-19 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ La Presse has gathered its series on ruelles vertes in one place. I’ve got to say, late summer is the peak in our alleys. There are flowers galore and the trees and other greenery have reached their maximum. So many great alleys in the Plateau, in Rosemont, in Villeray and elsewhere. Time for some good \[…\] ## [Shein plans a popup store on Ste-Catherine](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/19/shein-plans-a-popup-store-on-ste-catherine/) _2026-08-19 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Fast fashion megabrand Shein will have a popup store on Ste‑Catherine at the end of the month. Not everyone is thrilled. ## [REM down or slow Wednesday morning](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/19/rem-down-or-slow-wednesday-morning/) _2026-08-19 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ The REM is down between Brossard and Côte‑de‑Liesse and slowed everywhere else, Wednesday morning, blamed on an equipment breakdown. ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aEV5iQK1fxZx) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [Burnham’s big issue reaches me somewhere I never expected a prime minister to speak](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/19/burnhams-big-issue-reaches-me-somewhere-i-never-expected-a-prime-minister-to-speak/) _2026-08-19 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ I know this is a little geeky but I like someone who reaches out to me this way. I’m pleased to see Andrew Burnham writing this himself (I assume it is himself who’s taken a few minutes to write … Continue reading → ## [Autism -“Is it a superpower? No. Does it let me do things others can’t? Probably”](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/19/autism-is-it-a-superpower-no-does-it-let-me-do-things-others-cant-probably/) _2026-08-19 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ There is not much that I can say that Jon Dunkley has not said for himself. He is autistic, he is articulate and he gives us insight to many situations we have all been through. Thanks Johnny Timpson OBE for … Continue reading → ## [Why Gen Z are abandoning their pensions – I agree with Tom for a different reason.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/19/why-gen-z-are-abandoning-their-pensions-i-agree-with-tom-for-a-different-reason/) _2026-08-19 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Tom has written a great article that appears below and in the Times. I agree that there is good reason to prioritise other things than long-term saving when at work. But our parents insisted we paid the stamp (as my … Continue reading → ## [I wasn’t black, was at Cambridge and am still prejudiced](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/19/i-wasnt-black-was-at-cambridge-and-am-still-prejudiced/) _2026-08-19 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ I read this story with a sickening feeling of guilt. I was boasting last week that I read English at Cambridge like Andy Burnham and Amy Hunt as if that made me something. Of course it does, it makes you … Continue reading → ## [2.4m People flexibly accessed Pension Income before Age 65. The Treasury is the Big Winner](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/19/2-4m-people-flexibly-accessed-pension-income-before-age-65-the-treasury-is-the-big-winner/) _2026-08-19 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ This may or nay not be true but whether this was chicanery by the Exchequer of not, there is a lot of money that will not be paid as pension that was incentivised to be so. I’m agreeing with James … Continue reading → ## [Grim details about Monday’s killing](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/18/grim-details-about-mondays-killing/) _2026-08-18 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ TVA has lurid details about the murder on Monday and its effect on the neighbourhood. ## [STM announces plans for metro’s 60 years](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/18/stm-announces-plans-for-metros-60-years/) _2026-08-18 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ The STM plans to mark the 60th anniversary of the metro around mid‑October with live music and other festivities. I’m devastated that there’s no mention of clowns. ## [The Money We Carry After the Money Changes](https://rahkimsabree.substack.com/p/the-money-we-carry-after-the-money) _2026-08-18 · Rahkim Sabree · Overcoming Financial Trauma_ A reflection on financial stability, old survival patterns, and what it really means to feel safe with money. ## [Brief piece on restoration of Notre-Dame](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/18/brief-piece-on-restoration-of-notre-dame/) _2026-08-18 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ CityNews has a brief piece on the ongoing restoration of Notre‑Dame – ours, that is. ## [Churchill Falls deal: Innu not consulted](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/18/churchill-falls-deal-innu-not-consulted/) _2026-08-18 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ While Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and Mark Carney exult in the pact to develop Churchill Falls to generate more megawatts, CBC reminds us here that the land belongs to the Innu and they were not consulted. ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nK1F80UkJIiH) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [PQ won’t hold referendum under Trump](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/18/pq-wont-hold-referendum-under-trump/) _2026-08-18 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ PSPP has announced that his party won’t hold a third separation referendum while Trump remains US president. This is naive in the extreme, since Trump is an embodiment of the feeling of a large minority, if not a majority, of Americans – that Canada is really theirs. The U.S. is poised to pounce as soon \[…\] ## [The unions fired up by “collective pensions”](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/18/the-unions-fired-up-by-collective-pensions/) _2026-08-18 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ I have to say, I have been surprised and pleased by the interest of union pension officers in what we can now call “collective pensions” (formerly CDC!). There are three dates in my diary to catch up with them. The … Continue reading → ## [“There’s nothing special about dividends” – says Robin Powell.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/18/theres-nothing-special-about-dividends-says-robin-powell/) _2026-08-18 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ This article is important to pensions though it’s aimed at people with portfolios of directly held shares. Pension funds of course don’t pay a dividend, they pay a pension which is an encashment of the fund. But people base their … Continue reading → ## [Life Insurers promote themselves as different but they dependably deliver the same thing!](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/18/life-insurers-promote-themselves-as-different-but-they-dependably-deliver-the-same-thing/) _2026-08-18 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Who to believe? Both Scottish Widows and Standard Life are advertising their products with different messages but with the same pictures, pictures of happy clients being supported by human beings and by financial technology. The financial conundrum for insurance companies … Continue reading → ## [John (JQ) Quarrel , a great lawyer – a great voice speaking for decency in pensions.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/18/john-jq-quarrel-a-great-lawyer-a-great-voice-speaking-for-decency-in-pensions/) _2026-08-18 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ This is not a happy end to John Quarrel’s life. I intend to go up north to wish him a better after life. Much went wrong in his later days and Susan and his daughter Helen have stood behind him … Continue reading → ## [Another woman stabbed to death](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/17/another-woman-stabbed-to-death/) _2026-08-18 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Another woman has been stabbed to death, Monday afternoon, in a location TVA calls St‑Michel but which my map suggests is just inside St‑Léonard. Either way, the situation is unsettlingly like Saturday’s: a woman killed, a man found nearby with serious injuries. Item says the relationship between the two in Monday’s incident has not been \[…\] ## [Pornhub to pay millions to child porn victims](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/17/pornhub-to-pay-millions-to-child-porn-victims/) _2026-08-17 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Pornhub is to pay $120 million to people in two U.S. states who sued it because videos of them when they were minors were uploaded to Pornhub without their consent. ## [SMF revives REM de l’Est](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/17/smf-revives-rem-de-lest/) _2026-08-17 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Mayor Martinez Ferrada is reviving the idea of a REM de l’Est. Will this be Montreal’s answer to Quebec City’s Troisième Lien? ## [The Storefront Outreach Model](https://mattlove.substack.com/p/the-storefront-outreach-model) _2026-08-17 · Matt Love · The New American Diaspora_ Many readers of The Old Crow Book Club have written or told me that their favorite part of the book is the appendix at the end where I list in great detail my ideas for addressing the crisis of homelessness in Oregon. ## [Visit to researchers prepping for next pandemic](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/17/visit-to-researchers-prepping-for-next-pandemic/) _2026-08-17 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ CTV visits labs and researchers preparing responses for future pandemics. It’s not spelled out, but it’s clear that Canada needs to be able to act on its own when we face a new health crisis. ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FPYInSvMj0ir) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [This should appeal to the young professional – get paid at a massive discount on tax!](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/17/this-should-appeal-to-the-young-professional-get-paid-at-a-massive-discount-on-tax/) _2026-08-17 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Works for the hi-paid kids I know. Imagine paying 71% of your pay away when it could provide you deferred pay I don’t think that a Collective Pension excludes anyone. If you are young and you want to pay your … Continue reading → ## [The Dashboard is cleaning up our data – so we’ll see our retirement wages.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/17/the-dashboard-is-cleaning-up-our-data-so-well-see-our-retirement-wages/) _2026-08-17 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ It makes us think;- the prospect of life with a pension dashboard! If Chris Curry is right, the dashboard has done part of its job- a year from starting. We don’t know when he’ll have it open to the public … Continue reading → ## [German pensions – this is the big new deal for asset managers](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/17/german-pensions-this-is-the-big-new-deal-for-asset-managers/) _2026-08-17 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ The big story for asset managers in Europe is not CDC or DC or the revival of DB as an investment opportunity, it is German funded pensions. ## [Threescore years and ten; 70’s now the age to retire , not to die!](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/17/threescore-years-and-ten-70s-now-the-age-to-retire-not-to-die/) _2026-08-17 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ There’s a murmuring doing the rounds mocking those of my generation (mid 60’s) who cannot stop working but who know their children wish they would. They result in announcement of a career end. But these retirement announcements always promise another … Continue reading → ## [Divorce means pensioner poverty for many of a certain age](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/17/being-single-and-retired-can-mean-pensioner-poverty-says-lcp/) _2026-08-17 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Coping with the difference in lifestyle you face in retirement is one thing, maybe it’s not good for marriage. A high number of couples split up rather than go through a changed lifestyle – it would seem. While freedom from … Continue reading → ## [Cartoonists this week](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/16/cartoonists-this-week-61/) _2026-08-16 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ It was a mixed bag of themes this week as we hover between summer and school, the tendentious trade negotiations with the fractious dictator to the south and the impending Quebec election. Côté didn t get much of a holiday with everything going on. Our cartoonists tend to enjoy seeing Carney crushed by Trump although I \[ \] ## [CF Montreal fans banned for racist abuse](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/16/cf-montreal-fans-banned-for-racist-abuse/) _2026-08-16 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Two fans of CF Montreal have been banned after accusations of antisemitic abuse directed at an opposing player of Israeli origin on the New England Revolution team. ## [Electric bikes, scooters, called hazardous](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/16/electric-bikes-scooters-called-hazardous/) _2026-08-16 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ La Presse focuses on the hazards of electric bicycles and there have been items on the dangers of e scooters in town as well. The Journal even reported on the son of Justin Trudeau using such a scooter without a helmet. ## [The Low Earner’s Pension Payments;- now pushed back to 2027 – it’s a scandal.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/16/the-low-earners-pension-payments-now-pushed-back-to-2027-its-a-scandal/) _2026-08-16 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Following any email of 9th July HMRC has written to provide an update on the delivery of the Low Earner’s Pension Payment (LEPP). It arrived early in August Yet another delay in the tax-man paying back pension payments They Continue reading ## [What is the future for GPP workplace pensions.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/16/what-is-the-future-for-gpp-workplace-pensions/) _2026-08-16 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ My DC pot was established with L G by First Actuarial, my employer at the time of auto-enrolment. We were going to use Prudential but that large insurer which is now offering pensions through M G had recently withdrawn from writing Continue reading ## [SJP’s right to hold pre-eminence in managing financial affairs of the wealthy questioned](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/16/sjps-right-to-hold-pre-eminence-in-managing-financial-affairs-of-the-wealthy-questioned/) _2026-08-16 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Yesterday I published an article by Gordon Aitken that stood up for SJP after it had taken a stock-marketing beating for losing customers. My argument has consistently been that SJP serves a place in society, they are an expense that Continue reading ## [The complexity of some tax free cash sum payments – and who to go to for answers.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/16/the-complexity-of-some-tax-free-cash-sum-payments-and-who-to-go-to-for-answers/) _2026-08-16 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Sensible but technical stuff for the smart and those who have smart advisers! Queries on Lump Sum Payments Dave King Pensions Technical Consultant, Aries Insight April 21, 2026 Across the last couple of weeks, Aries have been asked several questions Continue reading ## [Brian Henderson’s Retirement Value Scorecard – for the smart and smart advisers.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/16/brian-hendersons-retirement-value-scorecard-for-the-smart-and-smart-advisers/) _2026-08-16 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ Yesterday I published Brian Henderson s brilliant thoughts on Value for Money as a way of helping individuals determine for themselves what is their best way forward at retirement. He converts the current VFM assessments to a tool known as Retirement Continue reading ## [Murder in St-Michel?](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/15/murder-in-st-michel/) _2026-08-15 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ TVA has a very scanty report on a possible murder in St Michel on Saturday afternoon. Not much more detail in La Presse. Sunday morning, there s info that it was a woman who was stabbed to death, and that a man has been arrested. Police are numbering this as the city s 15th homicide this year. I \[ \] ## [Meth lab busted in middle of river](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/15/meth-lab-busted-in-middle-of-river/) _2026-08-15 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Friday morning, cops boarded boats and busted a meth lab on an island off Verchères, round about here. ## [Brian Henderson asks whether CDC gives you better VFM than DC – it depends!](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/15/brian-henderson-asks-whether-cdc-gives-you-better-vfm-than-dc-it-depends/) _2026-08-15 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ You can download the document for yourself from here. Here is Brian s introduction on social media ## [Some thoughts on the SPP’s “Home Truths; Rethinking Retirement Wealth”](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/15/some-thoughts-on-the-spps-home-truths-rethinking-retirement-wealth/) _2026-08-15 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ You can read the SPP paper here The UK must stop treating pensions and housing as separate policy issues to address the growing retirement adequacy challenge, the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has argued. They re bang on In a Continue reading ## [Being all things to everyone’s annoying – Aon should not annoy DWP/HMT](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/15/being-all-things-to-everyones-annoying-aon-should-not-annoy-dwp-hmt/) _2026-08-15 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ This was a week when Aon brought employers all things to all private sector employers All private companies run workplace pension schemes so Aon run a product for every pension saver. The net accessible market for Aon is every employer Continue reading ## [Turning “de-risking”to “growth” through a new pension strategy.](https://henrytapper.com/2026/08/15/turning-de-riskingto-growth-through-a-new-pension-strategy/) _2026-08-15 · henry tapper · AgeWage: Making your money work as hard as you do_ There is a story that Andy Smith is brace tell. He is an independent consultant and though he has skin in the game, his honesty is commendable. The de-risking of DB pensions through the buy-in/out of insurers is slowing. I Continue reading ## [City, province to pay $20M restitution](https://mtlcityweblog.com/2026/08/14/city-province-to-pay-20m-restitution/) _2026-08-14 · Kate · Montreal City Weblog_ Claude Paquin will receive $20 million in restitution after he was cleared of conviction for a double murder in 1978. He was behind bars from 1983 till 2001, after which he was still under strict parole conditions. He was finally acquitted two years ago – but now he s 83 years old.