AIR MILES Cash Miles in-store redemptions halted temporarily due to fraud + MORE Mar 24th

Budget 2017 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa March 22, 2017. (Photograph by Blair Gable)
Every federal budget generates a blizzard of analysis, and yesterday’s was no exception. This time, though, zeroing in on Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s big moves—were there any?—was even trickier than usual. Here’s a quick guide to some of our Maclean’s coverage, with links to the stories:
Morneau’s challenge as he sells his second budget is to persuade Canadians that, beyond the modest short-term measures he announced, his vision can’t be captured on a spreadsheet.
New parental benefits are among budget measures that the government touts as helping families, and particularly women, by giving them more flexibility in juggling work and family.
To see all the measures that will have a direct impact on many Canadians—like getting rid of the transit pass tax credit, and boost the tax on booze—this MoneySense guide is your cheat sheet.
No story is Trump-free these days, and here’s ours on how uncertainty surrounding what the U…

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News, Tips & Tricks Most of today’s news has been covered in separate blog posts, see the ‘Posts since our last update’ section below. We missed out a small but important program on our Expiry and Inactivity Rules of Canadian Loyalty Programs feature, Porter Airlines VIPorter! The program is now on the list with their 24 month inactivity rule. Posts since our last update: AIR MILES Cash Miles in-store redemptions halted temporarily due to fraud Loyalty program fraud has been making the rounds in the news recently with programs like PC Points having been breached.… Meet the Collectors: Young professional makes mile & point consolidation work to his favour Today we bring you our latest Meet the Collectors feature. These are interviews with our readers, who are everyday Canadians…  Canadian Bonus Offers Air Canada / Aeroplan- Earn up to Quadruple Aeroplan Miles when you stay at the Chelsea Hotel, Toronto. More… Until Jun 30, 17- 1,250 Bonus Aeroplan Miles when you stay 5 nights at the Chelsea Hotel, Toronto…

Budget 2017 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa March 22, 2017. (Photograph by Blair Gable)
Every federal budget generates a blizzard of analysis, and yesterday’s was no exception. This time, though, zeroing in on Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s big moves—were there any?—was even trickier than usual. Here’s a quick guide to some of our Maclean’s coverage, with links to the stories:
Morneau’s challenge as he sells his second budget is to persuade Canadians that, beyond the modest short-term measures he announced, his vision can’t be captured on a spreadsheet.
New parental benefits are among budget measures that the government touts as helping families, and particularly women, by giving them more flexibility in juggling work and family.
To see all the measures that will have a direct impact on many Canadians—like getting rid of the transit pass tax credit, and boost the tax on booze—this MoneySense guide is your cheat sheet.
No story is Trump-free these days, and here’s ours on how uncertainty surrounding what the U…

Loyalty program fraud has been making the rounds in the news recently with programs like PC Points having been breached. The problem is not new and the industry has worked diligently for many years to combat program fraud. In the early days it was travel agents adding their frequent flyer number to tickets of passengers they booked who weren’t part of frequent flyer programs, then it was employees at stores swiping their collector cards when the person purchasing an item didn’t present their card and more recently it is the online world with hackers hacking into loyalty accounts.The latest entrant into the fraud world is now AIR MILES (they just can’t catch a break can they?) and their in-store Cash Miles redemptions. Apparently some Cash Miles have been stolen and used for in-store transactions.Dear Collector,This note is to make you aware that through our regular fraud monitoring processes, we have identified irregular activity occurring within a small number of in-store AIR MILES Cash transactions, where Cash Miles have been stolen…