{"id":114,"date":"2010-11-18T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T22:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/index.php?option=com_wordpress&amp;p=114&amp;Itemid=13"},"modified":"2010-11-18T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T22:07:02","slug":"credit-education-week-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/credit-education-week-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Education Week Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tCreditaid&#8217;s President &amp; CEO, Brian Denysuik is in Toronto this week attending the Credit Education Week Canada conference to learn about the latest in Credit industry news and trends.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some highlights of the conference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overview of the Financial Literacy Task Force Report.<\/li>\n<li>An address from the Ontario Assistant Deputy Minister, Education Mr. Grant Clarke.<\/li>\n<li>A fantastic speech from Mr. David Chilton, Author, The Wealthy Barber.<\/li>\n<li>A panel presentation by Laurie Campbell, Edward Gordon and Pat Foran on the Financial Literacy Task Force Report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And some takeways from the conference presenters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Doug Melville, Ombudsman and CEO of OBSI spoke about Consumer Credit Pitfalls.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Lyse Laram\u00e9e, from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada spoke about helping consumers make informed decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Ms.Terri Gibbson, Manager of Business Development for the Ontario Region at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) who spoke about making informed homeownership decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Marc LeBrun, Director General responsible for the Canada Student Loans Program spoke about support for new Canadians seeking post-secondary education.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Janet Hunter who develops education materials for adult learners spoke about newcomers and financial literacy, one size doesn\u2019t fit all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creditaid&#8217;s President &amp; CEO, Brian Denysuik is in Toronto this week attending the Credit Education Week Canada conference to learn about the latest in Credit industry news and trends. Here&#8217;s some highlights of the conference. An overview of the Financial Literacy Task Force Report. An address from the Ontario Assistant Deputy Minister, Education Mr. Grant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/credit-education-week-canada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Credit Education Week Canada&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123,124,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}