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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MBNA Best Western Mastercard to be discontinued Jun 27th
Last fall MBNA made the decision to stop accepting new applications for their Alaska Airlines, Best Western and Harley-Davidson co-brand credit cards. They did however allow existing cardholders to keep their cards and continuing using them as usual. Earlier this month notices were sent out to holde.... More »
Now live: Air Canada Aeroplan dynamic pricing with seven partner airlines Mar 26th
Effective today (March 25, 2025) the dynamically priced award chart for flights on Air Canada now includes United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways, and the program’s Canadian regional airline partners Calm Air, Canadian North, and PAL (Provincial Airlines). Award flights on these air.... More »
Meet Michelle Hung: The Sassy Investor who shows clients how to realize their worth + MORE Apr 7th
Michelle Hung—a.k.a. The Sassy Investor— is a Chartered Financial Analyst, financial planner and two-time author who realized her worth the first time she asked for a well-deserved raise. Her most recent book, Investing for Teens: How to Save, Invest, and Grow Money (Rockridge Press, 2022), teac.... More »
Canada’s best credit cards for grocery purchases 2022 + MORE Feb 2nd
Everybody needs to put food on the table, so you might as well earn rewards while doing so. Considering that the price of food in Canada is predicted to rise between 5% and 7% this year (nearly $1,000 more per year for a family of four), there’s no better time to earn useful rewards and cash back .... More »
Amex Offers spend $500 with Amex Travel receive a $150 statement credit & Sandman Hotels offering up to 50% off with a $25 gas credit + 2x points! + MORE Jul 21st
Here's your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. There is one additional Amex Offers for booking travel via Amex Travel. Yesterday we let you know about the spend $175 get a $50 credit offer. Some cardmembers are .... More »
Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for December – These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses
– RewardsCanada.ca
Here are Rewards Canada’s Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of December 2021. This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our Top Cash Back Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the just sign up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards.Some slight changes this month as TD has come out with a new offer on their Cash Back Infinite Card that puts it back into the top 5. Here are the Top 5 Cards for this month in order of value:American Express Cobalt Card – 50,000 points (Apply here)Welcome offer cash back value: $344 ($500 – $155.88 annual fee) Better known as a travel card the American Express Cobalt Card became Canada’s #1 cash back card in June 2021 as American Express bumped up its Use Points for Purchases (cash back) rate to 1,000 points for $10…
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 worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! One further Scene+ update made its way through our email. As a follow up to last week’s news about Scene being unavailable the program let members know as well that as they prepare the upgrade members will not be able to earn or redeem points from today to December 12 at the following restaurants: Swiss Chalet®, Harveys®, Montana’s BBQ & Bar®, East Side Mario’s®, Kelseys Original Roadhouse®, Bier Markt®, The Prime Pubs®. Image via Scene—We came across another regional Canadian tourism board offer to make you award of. Mississauga Tourism is offering a $100 Visa prepaid card when you book and stay two or more nights at participating hotels…
World of Hyatt Bonus Journeys: Earn 2,022 bonus points for every 2 nights (Jan 15 – Apr 20, 22)
– RewardsCanada.ca
Hyatt’s next systemwide Bonus Journeys promotion is here and celebrates 2022 by awarding 2,022 bonus points for every two qualifying nights that World of Hyatt members complete. The great news is that the nights do not have to be consecutive so if you are someone who makes a lot of one night stays you don’t have to worry as you’ll earn the bonus after your second one night stay and so. Members can earn the bonus for up 20 nights or a maximum of 20,220 bonus points. Registration and booking is now open for stays made between January 15 and April 20, 2022. You do have to register by March 15, 2022. There is also an additional bonus for World of Hyatt credit cardmembers if you happen to have one of those U.S. cards. (see below).Offer detailsEarn 2,022 bonus World of Hyatt Points for every 2 nights you stay at participating Hyatt Hotels Worldwide. Nights do not have to be consecutive. Maximum of 20,220 bonus points awarded per member. Click here for more details & to register for this offer…
Disappointment abounds in the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform
– RewardsCanada.ca
Now that the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform has been out for a couple of weeks and more people including ourselves have been able to test it out further it does seem like the general consensus is that it is bringing disappointment – at least for our readers that is.For the first few days after it launched there did appear to be some opportunities where you could get some outsized value for your miles when redeeming for travel. That is, more value than our old valuation of 11 to 15 cents per mile. That seemed to be corrected quickly by AIR MILES and now it seems extremely difficult to find any travel that exceeds that. In fact I conducted about dozen or so random searches and the highest redemption value I came across was 11.1 cents for a flight between Toronto and Winnipeg. All the rest of the searches were in the 7 to 11 cents per mile range. Some of those were with Gold member discounted pricing included! And what we hear from our readers is that they are seeing the same thing…
