Cedar Report

Natalie Chen is the Features Editor at Cedar Report, where she leads the lifestyle desk and oversees the publication's consumer guides and long-form analysis. Her beat covers the everyday decisions Canadian readers are trying to make - from understanding RRSP and TFSA contribution rules to comparing cell phone plans, navigating the rental market, and making sense of changing immigration pathways.

Before joining Cedar Report, Natalie spent six years at a Toronto-based consumer magazine, starting on the personal finance desk and rising to senior features editor. She built her skills fact-checking mortgage rate comparisons and writing deep dives on the real costs of homeownership in Canada's most expensive cities. Her transition to digital journalism was driven by a conviction that the guides people actually need should rank where people actually search for them.

Natalie's writing is research-heavy and plainspoken. Her guides start with a real question, not a keyword, and she has written extensively about CRA tax deadlines, provincial health coverage gaps, tenant rights by province, first-time buyer incentives, and the financial realities of raising a family in Canadian cities where costs have outpaced salaries.

She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Commerce and a minor in Creative Writing. She lives in Toronto and has a standing rule that she will try any restaurant once, as long as someone else is choosing.