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Amex Offers: Spend $175 with Amex Travel for hotel or car rentals and receive a $50 statement credit + MORE Jul 20th
A new Amex Offers for booking with Amex Travel came out today This offer provides a $50 statement credit when you spend $175 or more on prepaid hotel or car rental bookings online with Amex Travel. The offer is good for one single qualifying purchase or cumulative qualifying purchases so you could .... More »
September 8 Update: Points earned for Red Cross donations count towards Everyday Status Qualification, earn bonus points on Air Canada gift cards & a 50,000 PC Optimum points offer + MORE Sep 8th
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. Rewards Canada reader Jason T. reached out to us via Facebook and asked if the promotion for earning Air Canada Aeroplan points for .... More »
TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card welcome offer boosted to 20,000 Bonus Aeroplan Points, buddy pass and no annual fee in the first year Jan 18th
TD has revealed a new welcome bonus today for their TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card and it actually took us a little by surprise. We knew the last offer was going to end on January 17 and were guessing that we’d either see a continuation of the 10,000 points, a buddy pass and first year annual fee .... More »
IGA stores in Quebec to start accepting American Express cards and confirmation of Air Canada as part of the International Airline Program Aug 15th
Here's your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. Great news being forwarded on to us from one our readers! Sam let us know that they received a letter from Scotiabank letting them know that their Scotiabank Americ.... More »
Scene+ will launch at IGA, Sobeys and other stores in Quebec & New Brunswick on March 23 Feb 23rd
On March 23 the Scene+ program will finish their nationwide roll out at Empire Company Limited stores such as IGA and Sobeys. Stores in the provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec will switch from AIR MILES to Scene+ as will the only hold out in the west, Thrifty Foods. This will mark the completion o.... More »
A look at what you have to actually spend to get some of the best credit card welcome bonus offers
– RewardsCanada.ca
Yesterday we released our monthly Top Credit Card Sign Up Offers post which strictly looks at the value of the welcome or sign up bonus for cards in the Canadian market. To recap, these are the top five cards on the list for November:For some reason yesterday we received not just one but two requests to take a look at this list based on what you have to spend to get those bonuses!Good point. Just want to note that maybe next analysis can include how much is required to spend to get the bonus pointe. For example, for the avg CDN, getting the entire 40k from the TD card more difficult than the WestJet given spend reqd. Just an idea! Love the articles— Anik Dattani (@DattaniAnik) November 6, 2019 So shout out to Anik and DC for this idea!And here it is! We’ve taken nine of the better card welcome bonuses out there and list them in order of the spend required to get the bonus from the minimum to the maximum! We’ve also added in maximum travel value and also the timeline to get the bonus…
Flying Alaska Airlines out of Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver or Victoria over the next four days? Show a Starbucks Holiday Cup to get priority boarding! The Seatlle based airline teamed up withe Seattle based coffee chain for this promotion for the launch of holiday cup season! Find out more here!What does this mean exactly? Starbucks holiday cup-holders––anyone who purchases a Starbucks drink served in a holiday cup––will get to be in the “espresso” lane, following group B. Just be sure to listen closely to your gate agent’s announcements.With all that holiday spirit in the air, you know we couldn’t stop there! Some lucky guests on select flights might find surprise Starbucks treats on their seats, too.Remember as well if you have the MBNA Alaska Airlines World Elite Mastercard you’ll save money while flying Alaska as the card provides you with your first checked bag free!Another Canalta Rewards CFL contest! This time you can win four tickets to the West Final at Mosaic Stadium in Regina on November 17 to see the Saskatchewan Roughriders take on the Calgary Stampeders or I guess it could be the Bluebombers…
