Travel Insurance

Why You Need Travel Insurance

Why You Need Travel Insurance

Traveling is a large part of many people's lives. It provides us with the opportunity to experience new cultures, taste new food, or even go back home to visit family and friends. Unfortunately, even the best laid plans can go awry due to unforeseen circumstances such...

5 Unfortunate Things That Can Happen Without Travel Insurance

5 Unfortunate Things That Can Happen Without Travel Insurance

The Government of Canada has announced an official end to all COVID-19 border and travel measures, effective October 1/2022. Essentially a free flow of travel is allowed to and from the country's air, land, and sea borders (normal regulations standing). As a result,...

Spring Break Insurance and Safety Tips 2022

Spring Break Insurance and Safety Tips 2022

For obvious reasons, it has been three years since we've published our otherwise annual guide to enjoying a safe and liability-free spring break. But now that BC Public Health Order (PHO) restrictions have been lifted on many spring break types of activities in the...

Ready to Travel? We’ve Got You Covered (literally)

Ready to Travel? We’ve Got You Covered (literally)

National and international travel within and from Canada has opened up across the country. Citizens are permitted to hop on planes, trains, and automobiles to almost anywhere they please (with a few caveats, of course). Each destination and form of travel will carry...

Forgot How to “Do” Summer? Here’s a Safety Refresher

Forgot How to “Do” Summer? Here’s a Safety Refresher

BC is in Stage 3 of the provincial reopening plan, which comes with a return to a large number of freedoms we enjoyed prior to the events of 2020. It just so happens that this coincides with the onset of summer. While every household will move forward responsibly with...

Why Single Parents Need to Rethink Their Insurance Coverage

Why Single Parents Need to Rethink Their Insurance Coverage

British Columbia ranks third (behind Ontario and Quebec) when it comes to the number of single parent households in a province. But even though you may share this distinction with nearly 220,000 other BC families, you may feel alone from time to time. You have a world...

Why You Need Travel Insurance More Than Ever Before

Why You Need Travel Insurance More Than Ever Before

At the onset of January 2020, the Canadian government updated a Middle East travel advisory, recommending against non-essential travel due to the “volatile security situation” in Iran. Two weeks later they updated their travel advisory for the Hubei Province of China...

Insurance Risk of Kids on Spring or Summer Vacation

Insurance Risk of Kids on Spring or Summer Vacation

Whether you find this while planning for spring break or summer vacation, there’s one thing that parents have to account for when traveling with kids in tow - insurance risk. From tot to teen, your children present a set of vacation challenges that could cost you...

Spring Break Safety Tips 2019

Spring Break Safety Tips 2019

Spring break is here and all over BC households are heading out on vacation. And while it's a time to fulfill wanderlust dreams, your trip can result in inconvenience or an outright nightmare if necessary precautions aren't taken. To make sure it's more of the former,...