The “Big Five” Canadian banks offer credit cards and include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Did you know that there are many other options?
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Via Rail youth train passes sold out after high demand
– moneysense.ca
TORONTO —Via Rail said early Thursday that all available $150 youth passes for unlimited travel across Canada in July had been sold out after the sales were derailed on Wednesday due to high demand on its website.
The Canada 150 Youth Pass — intended to coincide with celebrations marking the country’s sesquicentennial — went on sale Tuesday. The company said, however, that sales were temporarily suspended “due to high demand” and technical difficulties with its online booking engine.
But Via Rail pushed out a tweet at about 3:30 a.m. ET Thursday morning saying all available of the passes had been sold.
“Bon voyage! All the Canada 150 Youth Passes have been sold. 1,867 young travellers will discover Canada this summer,” read the tweet.
An earlier tweet said sales were being capped at 1,867—which corresponds to Canada’s confederation — “otherwise there won’t be enough seats for all come July.”
The pass is for young people between the ages of 12 and 25…
The Canada 150 Youth Pass — intended to coincide with celebrations marking the country’s sesquicentennial — went on sale Tuesday. The company said, however, that sales were temporarily suspended “due to high demand” and technical difficulties with its online booking engine.
But Via Rail pushed out a tweet at about 3:30 a.m. ET Thursday morning saying all available of the passes had been sold.
“Bon voyage! All the Canada 150 Youth Passes have been sold. 1,867 young travellers will discover Canada this summer,” read the tweet.
An earlier tweet said sales were being capped at 1,867—which corresponds to Canada’s confederation — “otherwise there won’t be enough seats for all come July.”
The pass is for young people between the ages of 12 and 25…
Dollarama says it sees plenty of room to expand, will start taking credit cards
– canadianbusiness.com
Dollarama Inc. will start to accepting credit cards across all of its stores this year, the retailer said on Thursday, as it posted stronger-than-expected results that sent its stock surging.
The Montreal-based company also raised its estimate of how many of its stores Canada can support within a decade to 1,700 from 1,400. It had 1,095 stores as of Jan. 29.
“This provides us with a comfortable runway for continued organic growth in Canada, consistent with the current store format, real estate quality and capital payback period,” Dollarama CEO Neil Rossy said Friday.
The company said it’s time to stop insisting that customers pay either by cash or debit card _ which usually don’t charge merchants the same processing fees as credit card transactions.
Rossy said Dollarama will begin to accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express in all of stores across Canada by the end of its second quarter, which ends mid-summer.
Chief financial officer Michael Ross added that pilot tests show that sales growth will offset the cost of allowing credit cards, but added it will take a year to know whether it can do better than break even…
The Montreal-based company also raised its estimate of how many of its stores Canada can support within a decade to 1,700 from 1,400. It had 1,095 stores as of Jan. 29.
“This provides us with a comfortable runway for continued organic growth in Canada, consistent with the current store format, real estate quality and capital payback period,” Dollarama CEO Neil Rossy said Friday.
The company said it’s time to stop insisting that customers pay either by cash or debit card _ which usually don’t charge merchants the same processing fees as credit card transactions.
Rossy said Dollarama will begin to accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express in all of stores across Canada by the end of its second quarter, which ends mid-summer.
Chief financial officer Michael Ross added that pilot tests show that sales growth will offset the cost of allowing credit cards, but added it will take a year to know whether it can do better than break even…
