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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This Week in RWRDS April 11, 2025: 43 Million Points….. Gone! Apr 12th
This week we discuss how a PC Optimum member has lost 43 million points, check out the Ultimate High End Traveller Credit Card portfolio, look at a WestJet points bonus for using your companion voucher and much more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast! Watch This Week in RWRDS her.... More »
June 1 Update: When earning 5x points isn't the same as earning 5x points - a loyalty lesson, more TD card offers extended & SiriusXM Amex offer + MORE Jun 2nd
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 70,000 bonus points a.... More »
The best instant approval credit cards in Canada 2022 + MORE Oct 12th
If you’re applying for a credit card, chances are you want it as soon as possible. Unfortunately, you often have to wait several days to see if you were approved, and then wait some more while the card makes its way to you in the mail. The good news is many credit cards now offer instant approval..... More »
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Podcast Episode 100: Canada’s Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards 2023 + MORE Jan 11th
Rewards Canada is pleased to present the best Travel Rewards Credit Cards in Canada for 2023! In this, our 15th edition of ranking the best credit cards in Canada we have added two new categories to help Canadians from all walks of life find the best travel credit cards for their wallets. Cli.... More »
AIR MILES Bonus Boom is now live – earn bonus miles with participating partners + 95 bonus miles when you collect three different Bonus Boom offers
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The latest AIR MILES Bonus Boom event kicked off today with a whole bunch of bonus miles offers for shopping or completing actions with various AIR MILES partners. Most of the bonuses are available between today and April 14 and once again if you use three different Bonus Boom offers you’ll get 95 bonus AIR MILES. New this time however is the ability to get the 95 bonus miles all from one retailer so long as they have multiple offers. For example Sobeys has three different offers available so if you meet the criteria for those three offers you’ll get the 95 bonus miles. With Bonus Boom you can earn well over 1,000 bonus miles with all the offers but in reality most serious collectors will be earning upward of several hundred miles. It really depends on what shopping you need to get done – for example you can earn two of three partners simply by redeeming 95 cash miles at Safeway and then doing the same at Sobeys (you need to opt-in for those particular bonus offers) and then you have your usual type of bonus offers from Amex, BMO, AIR MILES Shops, Shell, Staples, Global Pet Foods and more…Now’s the time to grab an Air Canada Aeroplan credit card – get up to 50,000 points at no cost other than card spending!
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Earlier on the Rewards Canada blog we detailed how you can now convert the Buddy Pass portion of the welcome offer on half a dozen Aeroplan co-brand credits to 30,000 Aeroplan points. This is a huge deal! To be able to get an extra 30,000 points out of a welcome bonus is unprecedented. Yes – the buddy pass can have huge value in its own right but by converting it to points you do take out some uncertainty over shorter term travel (think less than 2 years). Plus the buddy pass is meant for North America travel including Hawaii and only in economy class. By taking the points you can use them to build up your balance for travel to anywhere in the world that you can redeem Aeroplan points for (and that’s a lot of places) in any fare class you like including First Class. Image via Dat N.Now I do say it is time to grab an Aeroplan card and I stand by that. Come May when the next round of offers come out on most of these cards who knows what the bonus will be but there may not be a Buddy Pass, there may not be a first year annual free offer and more than likely the bonus points won’t be near the points you can get right now with the buddy pass…
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. The latest Rewards Canada Podcast that covers new hotel openings in Canada from Hilton, Hyatt, IHG & Marriott is now in video format on our YouTube Channel – Check it out here —WestJet announcned they will be resuming flights to Charlottetown, Fredericton, Moncton, Sydney, and Quebec City starting in late June. They will also bring back their Toronto to St. John’s flight at that time as well. (Source WestJet)Planned Network Service Resumptions: Route Frequency Planned restart date St. John’s-Halifax 6x weekly May 6, 2021 Charlottetown-Toronto 11x weekly June 24, 2021 St…You can now convert Air Canada Buddy Passes into 30,000 Aeroplan points!
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Shout out to Ashul at Points, Miles & Bling and Ricky from Prince of Travel who broke the news last night that Aeroplan is now allowing members to convert the Air Canada Buddy Passes earned from an Aeroplan co-brand card into Aeroplan points! The option to convert has not been published publicly by Air Canada however Anshul and Ricky have confirmed with the airline that this indeed is true. And it is an awesome deal – Air Canada will give you 30,000 Aeroplan points if you choose to convert your Buddy Pass to Aeroplan points. To do so you simply have to call Aeroplan and tell them you would like to convert your Buddy Pass to points.Recommended reading: The Air Canada Buddy Pass explained & evaluated Now why is this an awesome deal? It is an awesome as it technically creates some the best welcome bonus points offers ever seen on Aeroplan co-branded credit cards! It also provides an avenue for single travellers or those playing in one player mode in the points & miles game to jump on one of the cards now instead of waiting to see what offers may come in the future that weren’t targeted to traveling with a companion…
