Rene Babin
Powell River, BC, Canada | Writer | Resident in 2026
Rene is a Financial Advisor with over 30 years experience helping people manage their wealth. An early part of his career his was helping a bank understand how its lending practices led to a critical level of loan defaults at one of its newest branches. The accumulation of his hands on experiences led him to write a book. Credit, it’s a drug. Cure the addiction for a dollar a day; explores how debt can take a hold of your life, who’s to blame, how it happens for some and not others, and a path to recovery.