Besides the Canada Day festivities on Wednesday, Ottawa has been pretty quiet this week. But while there hasn't been any Senate-style bickering or major economic announcements, there are still a few things worth reading about this weekend.

Siddhartha Lokanandi is a New Yorker who regularly uses credit cards to help him make big-ticket purchases. Last fall, for example, he put several thousand dollars on one card in order to send his mother to India.

A recent Deloitte study has issued some warnings about the level of indebtedness in Canada. Here are the main points: