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Scotiabank Gold American Express Card review Jan 9th
The Scotiabank Gold Amex combines some of the best aspects of a travel card with the ability to participate in the Scene+ Rewards Program. For a modest annual fee, you’ll enjoy considerable insurance coverage, some travel perks, and the ability to earn up to 6 Scene+ points per $1 spent.
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Earn bonus Aeroplan points when you fly Air Canada to or from Ontario + MORE Feb 8th
Air Canada Aeroplan has a new promotion to earn bonus Aeroplan points for taking multiple flights to or from Ontario. To me it appears that is a response to all of Porter Airlines new flights to/from major cities across Canada out of Toronto. More so it does seem targeted to keeping business travell.... More »
October 25 Update: Air Canada adding new Quebec City to Calgary & Vancouver flights and earn 1,000 bonus points on your next Best Western stay + MORE Oct 26th
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points.... More »
March 28 Update: MBNA Alaska Airlines World Elite Mastercard Review (Updated for 2022), new Flight Reviews page & last few days for the amazing KLM sale! + MORE Mar 28th
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. Today we released an update to our review of the MBNA Alaska Airlines World Elite Mastercard. The card was first reviewed on Rewards Canada in 2013 and I have.... More »
Podcast Episode 72 - The New Air Canada Aeroplan Program + MORE Nov 11th
Episode 72 - November 10, 2020 The New Air Canada Aeroplan Program In this episode we discuss the highly anticipated and long awaited new Air Canada Aeroplan program. We talk about the new dashboard, redemptions, credit cards, the new Buddy Pass on the credit cards .... More »
Earn 4x Aeroplan Miles for Choice Hotels stays in November
– RewardsCanada.ca
Looks like the Double Miles offer we’ve seen for the past few months has been bumped up to Quadruple Miles for this month!Offer details:Quadruple Aeroplan Miles for stays at over 5,500 Choice Hotels Worldwide. Full details and online booking.Find many more Aeroplan bonus offers here.November 9 Update: Enter to win WestJet Gold Elite status, new Swissport Aspire Lounges in YYC, lots of new bonuses
– RewardsCanada.ca
News, Tips & Tricks Week 3 of the Rewards Canada 15th Anniversary has arrived! This week you can enter for a chance to win WestJet Rewards Gold Elite status. The status provides you with some great benefits when flying on WestJet! Check out this latest contest along with our exclusive booking promotion on the 15th Anniversary site! A little over a week ago we let you know that the new International Terminal in Calgary opened up. Along with that opening come two new Swissport business class lounges. These two lounges are part of their Aspire branding which brings a higher level of lounge service to YYC. These are the first two Aspire lounges in North America. In fact the Transborder lounge includes showers and is the first lounge in Calgary to do so. You can still access the old Swissport lounge in Concourse A (The Chinook lounge) while the old Transborder Rocky Mountain lounge has disappeared from websites. Not sure if it will open up as another lounge but now that Concourse A and B are both domestic there is no need for Swissport to have two lounges in that part of the airport…6 end-of-year steps to protect your credit
– creditcards.com
With the big spending months closing in, take steps to keep your credit under control
Find the reason for a sudden 100-point credit score drop
– creditcards.com
Start by reviewing ‘credit score factors’ listed on your report
Canadians continue to pile up non-mortgage debt
– moneysense.ca
TORONTO – Canadians continued to pile up non-mortgage debt compared with a year ago but delinquency rates remained low, according to credit monitoring agency TransUnion.Average consumer non-mortgage debt balances rose to $21,686 at the end of the third quarter, up from $21,195 in the same quarter last year.
The increase came as non-mortgage debt levels rose 3.57 per cent to $17,969 in Quebec and 2.64 per cent to $21,620 in Ontario.
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However, while borrowing increased, serious national delinquency rates stood at 2.70 per cent, up from 2.62 per cent a year ago.
The change came as delinquency rates rose 13.39 per cent to 3.13 per cent in Alberta and 11.92 per cent to 3.46 per cent in Saskatchewan.
TransUnion forecast average debt levels to continue to rise over the next two years, but delinquency rates to move lower…
