American Express Cobalt Card: The best card in Canada offering 30,000 welcome bonus points + 5x points on your eats and drinks + MORE Jun 21st

Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. A question I am starting to see more of right now is: when is Amex’s Shop Small promotion returning? We’ve seen the annual Shop Small promotion already launch this month in France, Germany and the U.K.. So will Canada be next? Hopefully it will be! Over the past few years here it has launched as early as June 24 but as late as July 17 as well. American Express Canada has not given us any indication yet as to if and when the Shop Small promotion will launch but our fingers are crossed we will see it over the coming weeks. In the meantime you can brush up on Shop Small by checking out Rewards Canada’s step by step guide to the American Express Shop Small Program — Priority Pass has added some of British Airways business class lounges in the U.S.to their program. The BA lounges in Newark, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington Dulles are now accesible to Priority Pass members…

If your travels will take you to Nova Scotia this summer, more specifically the Halifax/Dartmouth area you’ll want to check out this bonus offer from Marriott! From now until August 25 you can earn 2,500 bonus points per night for stays at the highly rated Delta Hotels Dartmouth.  Offer details: 2,500 Bonus Bonvoy Points per night for stays at the Delta Hotels Dartmouth. Valid for stays until Aug 25, 22  Click here to learn more and to book this offer.Make sure you pay for your stay with the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express®* Card or the Marriott Bonvoy™ Business American Express® Card as those cards earn 5 points per dollar spent on Marriott stays! Offer example:We checked out the rates for this offer on July 5 for one night: From the example above you can see this bonus points rate prices the exact same as the best Flexible Rate Flexible and only $5 more than the Member Flexible Rate. Consider those points are worth $20 – $25 in  per night at our current valuations you may want to consider paying that $5 extra per night!More offers like this: 2,500 Bonus Bonvoy Points per stay at the Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport…

 The latest batch of new RBC Offers sees nine new and extended statement credit or discount promotions for using your RBC card at select retailers! In total there are over 30 offers in place with this program. Be sure to login to your RBC account right away to load these offers (if required) or get the promo codes if required. Personally I received these offers on the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard but most if not all should also available for RBC’s most popular card the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card and most other RBC cards. The new and  extended offers are as follows:Petro-CanadaSpend $500 or more at Petro-Canada on fuel, car washes, or convenience store purchases in June and you will earn 5,000 bonus Petro-Points when you pay with your linked RBC debit or credit card until June 20Herschel From now until July 18, 2022, get 12% off at Herschel.ca when you use the promotional code in this offer and pay using your eligible RBC credit card*EvernewOFFER EXTENDED Until July 21, 22 get a $25 statement credit when you shop at Ever New Melbourne online or in store and use your eligible RBC card to make an eligible purchase of $100 or more including applicable taxes and shipping…

 If you are a Rewards Canada regular then this card needs no introduction, however over the past couple of weeks we’ve had quite a few new visitors to the site so we want to introduce you to best credit card in Canada and the one that should be in every Canadian’s wallet. That card is the American Express Cobalt® Card which has been ranked as the best travel rewards credit card in Canada since 2017 and more recently also the best cash back credit card in Canada.  With everyday earn rates of 1 to 5 points per dollar spent, super flexible travel and cash back redemption options and the ability to transfer 1:1 to Air Canada Aeroplan and British Airways Executive Club, it is the card for everyone to have. 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…

Two weeks to the day of the news of AIR MILES losing Sobeys, Safeway etc. as partners comes news of another big loss. We just received an email from Staples Canada announcing they will be leaving the AIR MILES program as of July 1st, 2022. Statement from Staples Here is the first part of the statement from Staples:Dear Staples Customers,We would like to inform you that as of July 1, 2022, our partnership with the AIR MILES Reward Program will be changing. As a result, you will no longer be able to earn Air Miles or redeem Air Miles Cash on Staples purchases in stores, on Staples.ca, on StaplesPreferred.ca and on StaplesCopyAndPrint.ca.The email then goes on to state that Staples is enhancing their Preferred Program for small businesses, will continue to offer their Teacher membership program and will offer exclusive discounts and offers to email subscribers. They do mention you will be able still earn AIR MILES Reward Miles if you shop online with Staples via airmilesshops.ca Wrapping it upFirst Sobeys and now Staples in less than a month? AIR MILES seems to be fighting a losing battle here…