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9 credit lessons for college students + MORE Sep 2nd
These tips will help students use cards wisely to build their credit in school and beyond.... More »
The Best Small Business Credit Card Welcome Bonus Offers for January 2025 + MORE Jan 16th
Here are Rewards Canada’s Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for January. This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our overall Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but rather a look at small business cards that have the best welcome bonus offers. As always when ch.... More »
February 22 Update: American Express Green Card Review & a United MileagePlus award ticket flash sale for flights to London Feb 23rd
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your 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, ha.... More »
Easy payment options could mean problems for those who can’t control spending May 15th
OTTAWA – Technology is making buying things easier, but credit counsellors want you to remember that paying for them is still as difficult as ever.
Jeff Schwartz, executive director of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, says the ease with which consumers can buy things these da.... More »
Canadians Pick their Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2015 - Results of our Canada's Choice Vote! + MORE Nov 12th
For the fifth year in a row RewardsCanada.ca, the country’s leading source for frequent flyer and travel reward information, asked Canadians to rank their favourite travel reward credit cards as part of its ‘Canada’s Choice’ Awards.More than 6,000 users of the popular website responded by ch.... More »
How to check your child's credit report
– creditcards.com
With a few exceptions, children shouldn’t have credit reports. If they do, it could be an indication of fraud. Here’s how to find out
Cardholders Increasingly Frustrated By Aeroplan Rewards Shortage
– ratesupermarket.ca
A travel rewards credit card seems like a no-brainer. If you’re going to pay for things with credit anyway, why not build up points towards free travel? But as one of the country’s most-popular rewards programs, Aeroplan, surpasses 5 million cardholders, users are starting to feel some growing pains when they try to cash in their points for tickets.
A Rewarding Experience?
About 10 years ago, my wife and I – newlyweds at the time and without children – took a leave of absence from our jobs and travelled through Southeast Asia for three months. It was a fantastic, life-changing experience. But, in all honestly, one of the highlights was the flight there and back. Why?
Well, at the time, my wife was travelling a lot for work and charging everything to her personal credit card, so she’d racked up enough points for us to get two business class tickets to Thailand. (Flying business class on Singapore Airlines is something that should be on everyone’s bucket list!)
But since that time, whenever we tried to book holidays using our Aeroplan points we became increasingly frustrated…
AIR MILES Refuel Rewards Bonus at Shell – Up to 25 Bonus Air Miles per calendar month
– RewardsCanada.ca
We welcome back Rewards Canada’s contributor, Bill W with his next post! Bill is a true road warrior, his work has him driving and flying across Western and Central Canada every week while staying in a variety hotels from a variety of chains. Bill has been reading, following and even giving Rewards Canada tips and updates for a very long time so it is only natural to have him share his insights into the world of Travel Rewards! Bill’s first post with us discussed the AIR MILES accumulation changes at Shell (read here) and now he brings us the latest offer from Shell that seems to try to appease the negativity around those accumulation changes.Shell has launched another promotion called Refuel Rewards (Effective from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015) that offers 10 Bonus Miles with a purchase of 225 litres or 25 Bonus Miles with 500 litres in a calendar month.Doing the quick math on that, it seems to be a way of slightly easing the pain on the change to 1 mile per transaction…Card shields protect against low risk of RFID theft
– creditcards.com
Card shields or sleeves may keep thieves from remotely gathering data from the RFID chip in your credit card. But the odds of such theft are approaching zero, so focus on other concerns
