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Air Miles raises cap on in-store redemptions + MORE Jun 27th
TORONTO — Air Miles is raising some of the recent daily limits imposed on redeeming points for in-store purchases from retailers.
The customer loyalty program sent notices during the weekend that says the new daily limit on Air Miles Cash redemptions, in most cases, has been raised to $100.
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Summer camp sticker shock is real—here’s how to stay on budget May 16th
By the time the end of the school year nears, many parents have already spent months planning where to stick their kids for the summer. “It really is January, February, when you have to start thinking about it,,” says Erin Bury, mom to a toddler and kindergartner in Wellington, Ont. “It’.... More »
Rate survey: Average card APR sits tight at 16.41 percent + MORE Mar 7th
March 7, 2018: Interest rates on new credit card offers held steady this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report..... More »
RWRDS Daily Update – January 15, 2024 Jan 15th
Earn bonus miles with AIR MILES Receipts and AIR MILES Shops and Catch up on This week in RWRDS, our weekly loyalty newscast. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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Sri Lanka: A post-colonial tragedy in-the-making
– macleans.ca
This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian. No creditThe Sri Lankan civil war came to an abrupt end on a sandy beach in May 2009. The government army was unrelenting in its shelling of a three-square-kilometre strip in the island’s northeastern part, which sheltered an estimated 100,000 civilians used as human shields by the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). They eventually killed its megalomaniac leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, whose guerrilla tactics included recruiting child soldiers and suicide bombers.
A mere three years later, Subramanian, who writes for The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and the like, travelled throughout the island nation with an ambitious task: to document what the “conflict had done to the country’s soul.” In This Divided Island, he is stunned to find a place “pretending that it had been suddenly scrubbed clean of violence.” It must have surprised no one there when the UN released a report this fall declaring “egregious violations” took place on both sides of the conflict…
Sri Lanka: A post-colonial tragedy in-the-making
– macleans.ca
This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian. No creditThe Sri Lankan civil war came to an abrupt end on a sandy beach in May 2009. The government army was unrelenting in its shelling of a three-square-kilometre strip in the island’s northeastern part, which sheltered an estimated 100,000 civilians used as human shields by the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). They eventually killed its megalomaniac leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, whose guerrilla tactics included recruiting child soldiers and suicide bombers.
A mere three years later, Subramanian, who writes for The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and the like, travelled throughout the island nation with an ambitious task: to document what the “conflict had done to the country’s soul.” In This Divided Island, he is stunned to find a place “pretending that it had been suddenly scrubbed clean of violence.” It must have surprised no one there when the UN released a report this fall declaring “egregious violations” took place on both sides of the conflict…
