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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RWRDS Daily Update – June 5, 2024: Earn 100 bonus miles via AIR MILES Shops and eBay to stop accepting American Express + MORE Jun 5th
Earn 100 bonus miles shopping online via AIR MILES Shops and eBay to stop accepting American Express Cards as of August 2024. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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The best credits cards in Canada for 2024 + MORE Jan 5th
RWRDS Canada is pleased to reveal our annual top travel rewards and cash back credit card rankings for 2024! Canada’s longest running credit card ranking has entered its 16th year with some slight positional changes in the travel categories due to RBC’s takeover of HSBC while the cash back ranki.... More »
Travel hacks to help you save money on your next trip + MORE Nov 3rd
Despite high interest rates and inflation, statistics show that many Canadians are still making travel a priority. In August 2023, Canadians took 924,900 return trips overseas, up 22.9% year-over-year and just 17.4% shy of pre-pandemic levels, reports Statistics Canada. Bookings by Canadians going o.... More »
RWRDS Daily Update – June 22, 2023 + MORE Jun 23rd
Scotiabank Platinum American Express Card review, Porter Airlines confirms Toronto-St. John's flights and One more Walmart coding with 5x points for the Cobalt Card. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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Do you need one of Porter Airlines’ new BMO credit cards? + MORE Apr 11th
The wait is over. In January 2025, Porter Airlines and BMO announced a partnership that would see the launch of a suite of co-branded BMO VIPorter Mastercards in the spring of 2025. True to their word, two new travel rewards credit cards—the BMO VIPorter Mastercard and the BMO VIPorter World Elite.... More »
What are they thinking? BMO is changing their best credit card and for the most part it’s getting worse
– RewardsCanada.ca
Wow, thanks to our frequent news tip contributor @Joshnet we learned of some unexpected credit card news today. BMO is making changes to their BMO World Elite™* MasterCard®*. This card is the best travel card in the BMO portfolio of cards but in general over the years it has fallen in the ranks in the entire Canadian credit card market. Back in 2015 it was #1 in our Travel Points Cards with Annual Fee category but with multiple devaluations it started dropping down and is now 5th spot. Now, it appears the card may even fall out of the top 5 completely thanks to the changes that BMO has announced to the card. Name Change The first change to the card is the card name. The BMO World Elite Mastercard is being renamed the BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard on May 3.Earn Rate ChangesThis is the area of concern with the newly revamped card, BMO is changing the earn rates. Two accelerated categories do get better, some stay the same and the base earn rate…. well let’s just say BMO took the axe to it…
February 3 Update: Earn 2x elite qualifying points on your IHG stays, Flair Airlines 50% off to the U.S. & Mexico flash sale and Avianca Latin America seat sale
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Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your bear 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! A reminder that you can now earn Double IHG Rewards Points (Elite Qualifying) on all stays at IHG Hotels & Resorts in Canada and worldwide. Register and book now for stays Feb 1 – Mar 31, 22. Click here to register for and to book stays with this offer.Image via IHG— Flair Airlines has a one day only Flash Sale offering 50% off base fares for flights to the U.S. or Mexico. Flights must be booked today (Feb 3) for travel between February 10 and June 30. Click here to learn more and to book this offer.Image via Flair Airlines — Avianca is also offering a great seat sale with flights to El Salvador as low as C$159 one way, Guatemala City starts at $224 and Bogota from $274…
Earn up to 50,000 welcome bonus points worth $500 or more when you get the best credit card in Canada
– RewardsCanada.ca
As you may already know the American Express Cobalt® Card had some amazing changes made to it last summer that added more fuel to the already best travel rewards credit card and made it the best cash back credit card in Canada. And if you don’t have the card yet you’re in luck as American Express is still offering the best ever welcome bonus offer in its four plus year history. This offer has now been in the market since last August and while there is no word of it ending anytime soon we thought it would be good to bring attention to it for many of our new readers. To get a 50,000 points bonus on this card is very compelling given how valuable it is with its up to 5x points earn rate, super flexible travel and cash back redemption options and importantly, being able to transfer 1:1 to Air Canada Aeroplan and British Airways Executive Club.Welcome bonus Here’s how the welcome bonus offer is structured on the American Express Cobalt Card:In your first year as a new Cobalt Cardmember, you can earn 2,500 Membership Rewards® points for each monthly billing period in which you spend $500 in net purchases on your Card…
Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for February – 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 February 2022. 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.Two changes this month in the list, the TD Cash Back Visa Infinite Card received an additional boost to its current welcome bonus that moved it up to third spot from fifth. We also saw the end of the Tangerine 15% bonus so those cards dropped out of 10th spot allowing the MBNA Rewards World Elite Mastercard to move onto the list.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…
