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Video: 5 ways to score rewards for wedding costs + MORE May 26th
Wedding costs can take a big bite out of your bank account, but if you use your credit cards wisely, you can score big rewards to help offset the cost and pay for the honeymoon.... More »
Earn up to 7,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles on all Air Canada flights Worldwide + MORE Jan 23rd
Air Canada revealed a decent systemwide flight bonus offer yesterday! The new promotion covers all flights flown by Air Canada (including Rouge, Express, etc.) to all destinations Worldwide. It is a tiered promotion that offers bonuses from 1,000 miles to 7,500 miles depending on where you fly and w.... More »
More Canadians are rethinking their bank. Should you? + MORE Jul 23rd
Clinton Begin was growing tired of frequent visits to bank branches and calling into the trading desk to check on various transactions. “There (were) a lot of things that just took too much of my time. I was always phoning, always going to visit them. It was always a big deal,” he recalled.
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Your FHSA timeline: What to invest in and when + MORE Nov 28th
Before you make an offer to buy your first home, you’ll have to determine your budget and save up enough money for a down payment (typically about 20% of the home’s value). That’s probably going to be a good chunk of change—Canada’s housing market is expensive, and if you put down less tha.... More »
With rewards cards, which expenses count as travel for bonus rewards? + MORE Jun 19th
With rewards credit cards, "travel expense" covers a few surprises. Beyond airfare, hotels and rental cars, sometimes ride-shares, vacation rentals and even parking count as travel expenses..... More »
Earn up to 4,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles for Marriott stays
– RewardsCanada.ca
We brought you this new offer from Aeroplan for Marriott stays a few days ago in our bonus offer section but felt it was a good enough offer to have its own post! Much like the Fairmont offer we mentioned a few weeks back this offer is done through Aeroplan not Marriott, which means as long as you stay is mileage earning eligible and you select Aeroplan as your default in Marriott Rewards you can book the rate you like, take advantage of any other potential bonuses etc. If you are not a Marriott Rewards member and complete your first stay you’ll earn 2,000 bonus miles! Offer DetailsEarn up to 4,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles when you stay at Marriott Hotels Worldwide. Register Online (Registration is required) then book online at marriott.com Until Jan 31, 15There are two parts to this promotion: 1) Earn up to 2,500 bonus miles (500+750+1250); and 2) Earn 2,000 bonus miles for new Marriott Rewards Members; which totals 4,500 possible bonus miles during the promotion…Average credit card interest rates rise to 15.07 percent
– creditcards.com
Oct. 1, 2014: Average rates on new card offers jumped this week to their highest point in nearly three years, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.
Inside the NHL: Sam Bennett is chasing the dream
– macleans.ca
Photograph by Todd KorolIf Sam Bennett fulfills half the expectation that comes with his billing—top-rated skater going into the NHL draft; highest pick in Calgary Flames history—then his great Uncle Wally is surely in line for some credit. It was he, after all, who came downstairs one day 15 years ago to find three-year-old Sam tearing around the basement on a disused set of rollerblades, boots three sizes too large. The boy was skating like he’d been born in them, weaving at full speed around furniture in a preview of how he would one day treat opposition defencemen, and Wally called upstairs to Bennett’s dad: “Dave, you’d better come down and take a look.” The two men stared for a while, awestruck, before Wally murmured, “I think you might have something here.”
That prophecy would resonate last June, as Dave and his wife, Diane, sat in a hotel lobby in Philadelphia, one day from the 2014 NHL entry draft. Like many parents of hockey prodigies, they are to this day bereft of any convincing explanation as to their son’s near-supernatural gift…
Credit reports hold longer memory than issuers
– creditcards.com
You let a card go unpaid for years, then finally paid the account off. The odds of the card issuer remembering your behavior aren’t as big as the credit bureaus
Inside the NHL: Sam Bennett is chasing the dream
– macleans.ca
Photograph by Todd KorolIf Sam Bennett fulfills half the expectation that comes with his billing—top-rated skater going into the NHL draft; highest pick in Calgary Flames history—then his great Uncle Wally is surely in line for some credit. It was he, after all, who came downstairs one day 15 years ago to find three-year-old Sam tearing around the basement on a disused set of rollerblades, boots three sizes too large. The boy was skating like he’d been born in them, weaving at full speed around furniture in a preview of how he would one day treat opposition defencemen, and Wally called upstairs to Bennett’s dad: “Dave, you’d better come down and take a look.” The two men stared for a while, awestruck, before Wally murmured, “I think you might have something here.”
That prophecy would resonate last June, as Dave and his wife, Diane, sat in a hotel lobby in Philadelphia, one day from the 2014 NHL entry draft. Like many parents of hockey prodigies, they are to this day bereft of any convincing explanation as to their son’s near-supernatural gift…
