Scotiabank credit cards: A breakdown of the bank’s best cards + MORE Nov 25th

Scotiabank (originally called the Bank of Nova Scotia) is technically older than Canada itself. Founded in Halifax in 1832, the bank beat Confederation by 35 years. With that amount of history in the business, it’s no surprise the bank can offer and support a wide variety of products—including 18 credit cards—tailored to various financial needs and goals. Read on to determine the best Scotiabank offers in a selection of categories from travel, to cash back, to perks.

The best Scotiabank credit cards in Canada 2019

Best for travel rewards—Scotiabank Gold American Express
Best for cash back—Scotia Momentum Visa Infinite
Honourable mention for cash back—Scotia Momentum Visa
Best for students—Scotiabank Scene Visa
Best low interest rate—Scotiabank Value Visa
Best for perks—Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite
Honourable mention for perks—Scotiabank Platinum American Express

Best for travel rewards
Scotiabank Gold American Express Card*
While the bank has a few options when it comes to collecting travel rewards, our top pick is the Scotiabank Gold American Express…

Last week when we launched our contest to celebrate Aeroplan’s Black Friday Cyber Monday offers, one of them we let you know about was the hotel transfer bonus.Here are the hotel partners participating in the Black Friday version of the hotel transfer bonus:As you can see the most popular hotel transfer partner, Marriott Bonvoy, is not included this time so this version of the transfer bonus is more about cleaning out accounts. If you have points in any of the above hotel programs that you know you will never use towards a free night award but are enough to be transferred to Aeroplan then this may be the time to do so. These transfer bonuses are a really good way to use up ‘orphaned points’. This transfer bonus runs until December 3, 2019.Learn more about Aeroplan’s Black Friday Hotel Transfer bonus here!You can find this offer and many more Black Friday Cyber Monday offers on our BFCM Deals page!One program you may want to look at a little closer is Shangri-La’s Golden Circle. If you have points in this program they are offering their own bonus incentive on converting points of 25%…

Continuing on our ‘as we mentioned in our giveaway’ post last week, the Aeroplan eStore Black Friday Cyber Monday deals are now available. These bonuses run until December 3 and we now know that the two most popular retailers, Amazon.ca and Apple, are 5x and 7x miles respectively. Unfortunately not the 10x miles some were hoping for but if you need and want to make your purchases now you should so that you can earn those bonuses.Now, if 2018 is any indicator of what this year may be, you may want to hold off on Amazon purchases as last year in the middle of December the Aeroplan eStore did offer 10x miles (see our post from last year here) but there is no guarantee that it will happen this year. We can only hope it will!Related: Rewards Canada’s Guide to Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals for 2019!Some other popular retailers you can earn bonus miles with include Indigo (10x miles + earn Plum points), Sephora (7x + Beauty Insider points) and Dyson (10x miles)Just a sample of the offers!Remember as well, for purchase at Amazon to use an American Express card as they are offering bonus points for Amazon…

The Black Friday Cyber Monday train that started last week continues with this offer (and there will be many more offers as the week goes on!)This one is again tied into to shopping online via a reward portal and again is for Amazon. The portal is airmilessshops.ca and this offer is exclusive to those who hold a BMO AIR MILES Mastercard (See all of them here). Cardholders who opt-in for this offer via this registration page will earn 100 Bonus AIR MILES when they spend $200 using their eligible BMO AIR MILES Mastercard between November 29 – December 2, 2019, inclusive at amazon via airmilesshops at airmilesshops.ca/en/shops/amazon. You will not get AIR MILES® Reward Miles on Amazon Gift Cards, Amazon Prime Sign-up, Books, eBooks, Groceries, Automotive supplies, Tools & Home Improvement, books, or Kindle devices or Kindle eBooks.This bonus will be offered over and above AIR MILES own bonus they will be offering for Black Friday Cyber Monday for shopping at Amazon via their online shopping portal which is going to be 20x miles for purchases made November 29 to December 2…

I don’t often have an opportunity to write a credit union review. The reason for this is that most credit unions tend to be quite small, and as such, serve a relatively small client base within a very defined (and smallish) geographical area. In short, it doesn’t work all that well for a personal finance website with a Canada-wide audience. Meridian Credit Union is an exception, however.
While Meridian’s brick-and-mortar locations are exclusive to the province of Ontario, Meridian is a big financial institution. The largest credit union in Ontario, and the 3rd largest in Canada, Meridian serves almost 350,000 members, with assets under management of more than $21 billion. Not only that, but Meridian has established a solid foothold in the online banking space through its subsidiary, motusbank. Because of this, with some limitations, Meridian products and services are available to most Canadians, either through its Ontario branch network, or online, via mostusbank.
Meridian Credit Union Personal Banking
Meridian has a wide range of personal chequing accounts to offer its members, with a few of them standing out as having particularly good value; the Pay As You Go, Limitless Chequing, and the Senior Chequing Account…