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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Vermond, Kira

Earn, spend, save : the savvy guide to a richer, smarter, debt-free life/by Kira Vermond.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-67654-7

1. Women—Canada—Finance, Personal. I. Title.

HG179.E37 2009 332.0240082'0971 C2009-905898-7

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