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Buy or gift Aeroplan Points with an 85% bonus + MORE Aug 30th
Aeroplan has come out with another buy or gift points promotion where you can earn an 85% bonus. . This offer runs until September 3, 2022 and allows members to buy up to 500,000 points per transaction up to the annual limit of 1 million points. If you buy 15,000 or more points you will ear.... More »
Europe grows, but Chinese credit growth slows + MORE Nov 14th
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At Vox EU, Peter Temin and David Vines observe that the debate over the efficacy of Keynesian-style stimulus in the response to economic turmoil in Europe is a case of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose:
Keynes faced exactly this opposition in 1930…[people w.... More »
Earn 10x miles when you shop online at select retailers via the Aeroplan eStore from June 29 to July 5 + MORE Jun 29th
It's time to earn extra miles again for your online shopping! This time Aeroplan is providing 10x the miles when you shop online with specific retailers on specific days. Those days and retailers are as follows:If you do have any shopping in mind with the above retailers make you shop via the eStore.... More »
The South Pole Wall: 100 Million Billion Stars Are Found Hiding in the Milky Way - Science Times + MORE Jul 11th
The South Pole Wall: 100 Million Billion Stars Are Found Hiding in the Milky Way Science TimesBeyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall The New York TimesAstronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across Livescience.comA.... More »
CFIB wants temporary foreign worker program replaced by special visa + MORE Dec 1st
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is calling on Ottawa to replace its controversial temporary foreign worker program with a visa that would provide a path to permanent residence for entry-level employees from abroad..... More »
American AAdvantage Changes: AAnytime Awards Move to Three Tiers, oneworld Explorer Awards and International Gateway Stopover gone
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Earlier in the day we posted the good news from IHG and said most of the news today was. Here is the first of the bad news.Without advance notice, although now emails are starting to trickle out, American AAdvantage has made some changes to their award charts and other redemption options. The concerning changes are those to the award charts which the email dances around by simply stating you can redeem less miles for the lowest level AAnytime Award but fails to mention the addition of new AAnytime Award levels that will cost more miles. The AAdvantage Award chart is now 5 levels deep Mile Saver 1 and 2, which have not changed and that is good news as most of us redeem at those levels while AAnytime Awards have 3 of their own levels with the third being reminiscent of Aeroplan’s Market Fare awards as their is no set redemption amount but rather the amount will fluctuate dependent on how full a flight is and/or how high revenue tickets are pricing out at. Here is a snippet of the new AAdvantage award chart that takes affect on June 1st:Here is an example for Canadians who redeem AAnytime award flights to Europe between the old and new rates:Economy 60,000 (old) vs…
