There are many web resources for the retired educator to explore. We have only included a few for your information. If you have some links to recommend, please send an email.
Investments and Finance
- FSON/RCSF - The Financial Services OmbudsNetwork is a free service that gives financial consumers access to recourse if they have concerns about their financial service providers. Consumers can call regarding any financial service or product via phone (1-866-538-3766) or visit the website.
- Money - CANOE Money's information on financial markets. Comprehensive.
- Generations - A site that provides articles written by Jeanne Best of Ontario on a variety of topics such as wills, estate planning and power of attorney.
- Bank of Montreal - Mutual fund web site has an easy to use asset allocation and
risk tolerance level questionnaire. - Ernst &Young - A large collection of investment, finance, accounting and tax
oriented links. - Investor Education Fund - provides information on mutual funds, money and investing, calculators for determining mutual fund investment returns, explanations on the kinds of investments that can be made, etc.
- Canadian Business On Line - Includes My Money, a Canadian magazine about managing your money wisely, and other useful financial information.
- Altamira - Has managed corporate, pension and private investments for over 25
years. Today they manage money for approximately 250,000 Canadians
coast tocoast. They hope you find visits to their web site both enjoyable
and informative. - Stingy Investor - Packed with free stuff, Norm Rothery's website links to interesting articles on investing, economics and business in popular and professional journals. A quick, easy way to keep up!
- FoundMoney - a website that helps people track down thousands of dollars
they never even knew they had ...Around the world, billions of dollars worth of
cash and property remain abandoned and unclaimed.
Retired Teachers' Associations
- Canadian Association of Retired Teachers (ACER-CART)
- National Education Association - Retired (USA)
- B.C. Retired Teachers' Association - (BCRTA)
- National Retired Teachers' Association (USA)
- Education International (Brussels, Belgium)
News
Lifestyles for Seniors
- Seniors Canada On-Line - is a trusted bilingual web site sponsored by the Canadian government with much information of use to seniors. Search by subject or by major life changes. You can also vary the print size to suit you.
- Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS): Get an overview of Canada's retirement income system and find out what's in it for you.
- Wired Seniors - strives to provide practical information relative to senior lifestyles -- Many links to sites of interest to the over 50 age group.
- Manitoba Seniors' and Healthy Aging Secretariat - is a central point of contact for seniors, their families, and organizations. It also provides copies of its publications and valuable links to other seniors' websites.
- Young Retired – is a website with information about retirement planning, travel, fitness and volunteer opportunities. It contains many links to sites of interest to retirees.
Continuing Education
- Creative Retirement Manitoba- A highly acclaimed guide for retirees to
Manitoban, Canadian and global information and services. - Virtual Museum Of Canada - A great site full of interesting learning opportunities, it has a range of beautifully presented topics for personal study and enjoyment.
Wellness
- Canadian Health Network - a national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information service to help Canadians find the information they're looking for on how to stay healthy and prevent disease.
- Health Canada - Addresses health topics including cancer, hepatitis,
natural health products, STDs, smoking, and food and nutrition. - Women's Health Matters - Evidence-based and updated information on women's health and news, and research findings on women's diseases and lifestyle trends.
- Manitoba Healthy Living - A good provincial source of topics of interest and events.
Travel
- Travel Guild - Several long-stay and tour opportunities described here.
- Travel Canada - Have you visited our country? This is the official site of the Canadian Tourism Commission.
- Work Overseas - The Canadian Bureau for International Education has some interesting opportunities for teachers and principals.
Search Engines
- The WebCrawler - The other general purpose text searcher.
- Yahoo Canada - Searches both by text and by category.
- Canada411 - The Canadian white pages - personal and business.
- Yahoo People Search -USA - Searching for individuals via E-Mail, Telephone, Net Phone, Government in the United States of America.
- Canadian Government - Various information and search options.
- Excite - A search engine.
- HotBot - A search engine.
- Google - One of the best text-searching search engines for the Internet.
- Amazon.com - lists a wide range of shopping options, has an international directory and an extensive catalogue of products.
- Narrowgate - Manitoba's on Line Shopping Centre; offers free classified advertisement listings.
Other
- The Manitoba Teachers' Society - the professional organization for
public school teachers in Manitoba. - Teachers' Retirement Allowance Fund - has a special section for retired teachers.
- Legislative Assembly of Manitoba - names and addresses of Manitoba MLAs.
- Faculty of Education (U of MB) Alumni Association - a site for University of Manitoba graduates in Education. Lots of features and information found here.
- Alumni of Brandon University - connect with BU grads here.
- Alumni of the University of Winnipeg - connect with U of W grads here.
- Wickipedia - a free encyclopaedia, in several languages, that you can add to.