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November 4 Update: New RBC Rewards Visa+ Card and CIBC Aventura Visa Infinite now first year free for Primary & Supplementary cardholders! + MORE Nov 4th
News, Tips & Tricks Don't forget to enter week 2 of the Rewards Canada 15th Anniversary contest! You could win a $200 American Express Gift Card! Enter here. The RBC Rewards Visa Gold has been discontinued by the bank. It has now been replaced by the RBC Rewards Visa+ card. We'll have more det.... More »
May 31 Update: Last day for our exclusive WestJet RBC MasterCard offer and KLM celebrates 2 years in Edmonton with a seat sale + MORE Jun 1st
News, Tips & TricksYou only have a few hours left to take advantage of the Rewards Canada Exclusive Offer for the WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard. If you apply for it by the end of today you'll receive WestJet Rewards Silver Status as well if you are approved for the card. Find all the deta.... More »
Offer Extended: Earn up to 60,000 Bonus Avios with the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite Card + save 10% on all BA flights + MORE Mar 4th
RBC has let us know they have further extended the best ever welcome bonus on the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite Card. For quite sometime this card had an offer of up to 50,000 Avios however RBC bumped that up by 10,000 Avios last September. It was set to end on February 28 but now y.... More »
How to set up CRA direct deposit + MORE May 16th
Have you ever had to wait for a held-up payment from the government or the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)? Labour strikes, severe weather, stat holidays and other factors can delay mail delivery by days or even weeks. At best, it’s inconvenient; at worst, it’s stressful for cash-strapped Canadians .... More »
This Week in RWRDS May 23, 2025: Start travelling sooner with these credit card bonuses + MORE May 24th
This week we look at 12 credit cards that can help get you travelling sooner, the best bonuses this year on some Aeroplan & Marriott cards, the first look at WestJet’s new business credit card and much more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast! Watch This Week in RWRDS here:.... More »
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Rate survey: Average card rates fall to 15.12 percent
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Jan. 13, 2016: The national average interest rate on new credit card offers slipped Wednesday for the first time in two months, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.
January 13 Update: Canadian Points U update, Flexibility feature update, up to 1,000 bonus miles for Marriott stays in Europe
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Here is your mid week update! News, Tips & Tricks Due to a last minute scheduling conflict, I will no longer be speaking at the first Canadian Points University this Saturday in Vancouver. Don’t worry thought you’ll be in good hands with the other speakers and be able to learn tons about the world of points and miles for Canadians. If you haven’t bought a ticket yet you can still use our promo code of REWARD20 to save $30 on your ticket at pointsu.ca We updated our feature on Travel Points Card Flexibility! Be sure to check out how Not all Travel Points and Hybrid Credit Cards are created equal! Posts since our last update: Redemption Stories: Etihad Guest miles were going to expire, so I redeemed them for merchandise! Shot of my Powerocks charger on RewardsCanada’s Instagram! What do you do when you have some miles in an account…BMO CashBack World Elite MasterCard – Up to a $150 CashBack Bonus Sign up bonuses are few and far between for Cash Back credit cards in Canada…
Carrying a balance? The American Express AIR MILES cards are offering 0% balance transfer for 6 months for new customers
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A huge no-no for those of you holding travel rewards credit cards is to be carrying a balance for longer than a few months. The interest will kill you and any rewards you can get from these cards. As we mentioned in our post The upcoming year in travel rewards for Canadians: current state and predictions for 2016! the market in Canada has seen balances held on credit cards grow by roughly half a billion dollars in the last year or so!!! That’s good for the credit card companies but bad for the consumer. A sign of the times I guess, people trying to make ends meet in this downtrodden economy filled with layoffs, wage cuts and more.So what can you do? You can get a consolidation loan, you can get credit cards with lower interest rates or take advantage of balance transfer offers like those just released by American Express on their AIR MILES cards. Now, you only get 0% for the first 6 months so this can save you some money on any balances you’re carrying. Well only for half a year and then your paying it again…
Redemption Stories: Etihad Guest miles were going to expire, so I redeemed them for merchandise!
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Shot of my Powerocks charger on RewardsCanada’s Instagram!What do you do when you have some miles in an account you don’t use very often and those miles are about to expire? You redeem them that’s what! Such was the case with my Etihad Guest account. I had earned a bunch of miles in the account for free when they were running an offer for free miles for connecting your personal account to a business EtihadConnect account. Seeing that I wasn’t earning Guest miles anywhere else and the best viable flight option was a short haul in the Middle East that wasn’t happening anytime soon I wanted to find a redemption I could actually use. The logical redemption was for some merchandise. Yes I know, that goes against what we discuss right here on Rewards Canada in that merchandise rewards are some of the worst value redemptions you can take advantage of. But is that really so? NO! True, if you have an account where you gain lots of miles or points in like Aeroplan or AIR MILES for so many Canadians then yes, merchandise rewards tend to be a bad value…
