The “Big Five” Canadian banks offer credit cards and include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Did you know that there are many other options?
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Buy or gift Aeroplan Points with up to a 100% bonus + MORE Mar 9th
Aeroplan's has come out with another buy or gift points promotion where you can earn up to a 100% bonus. This tiered offer sees bonuses ranging from 50% to 100% dependent on how many points you buy. This offer runs until March 22, 2022 and allows members to buy up to 350,000 points per transacti.... More »
Financial Institution Numbers for All Canadian Banks Apr 1st
You can identify Canadian financial institutions by their bank institution number, which is always three digits long. Bank customers need this number anytime they want to set up a direct deposit or preauthorized payment or receive a wire transfer into their account.
How to Locate Canadian Bank Insti.... More »
Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card: New increased welcome bonus of up to 45,000 points in the 1st year + MORE Jul 2nd
A new elevated welcome bonus offer on the Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card is here for the summer and early fall! The new offer provides up to 35,000 bonus Scene+ points which is a 5,000 point boost over the previous offer. The offer is promoted as up to 45,000 points in the first year as [&.... More »
Pros and Cons of Opening a Joint Bank Account Apr 17th
If you’ve recently been married or entered a committed relationship, you may wonder if it’s a good idea to join your banking with your spouse or partner. Perhaps you’ve discussed the idea with them, but you’re unsure if it’s better to open joint bank accounts or keep yo.... More »
It’s back! A 25% transfer bonus from American Express to Marriott Bonvoy Aug 28th
American Express’ 25% bonus for transferring Membership Rewards points to Marriott Bonvoy has returned! The offer has not been officially announced or mentioned on Amex’s site but has been in place for at least a few days now. Rewards Canada reader Brian alerted us to it this past Thursday s.... More »
Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for December – These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses
– RewardsCanada.ca
Here are Rewards Canada’s Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of December 2021. This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our Top Cash Back Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the just sign up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards.Some slight changes this month as TD has come out with a new offer on their Cash Back Infinite Card that puts it back into the top 5. Here are the Top 5 Cards for this month in order of value:American Express Cobalt Card – 50,000 points (Apply here)Welcome offer cash back value: $344 ($500 – $155.88 annual fee) Better known as a travel card the American Express Cobalt Card became Canada’s #1 cash back card in June 2021 as American Express bumped up its Use Points for Purchases (cash back) rate to 1,000 points for $10…
Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or 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, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! One further Scene+ update made its way through our email. As a follow up to last week’s news about Scene being unavailable the program let members know as well that as they prepare the upgrade members will not be able to earn or redeem points from today to December 12 at the following restaurants: Swiss Chalet®, Harveys®, Montana’s BBQ & Bar®, East Side Mario’s®, Kelseys Original Roadhouse®, Bier Markt®, The Prime Pubs®. Image via Scene—We came across another regional Canadian tourism board offer to make you award of. Mississauga Tourism is offering a $100 Visa prepaid card when you book and stay two or more nights at participating hotels…
World of Hyatt Bonus Journeys: Earn 2,022 bonus points for every 2 nights (Jan 15 – Apr 20, 22)
– RewardsCanada.ca
Hyatt’s next systemwide Bonus Journeys promotion is here and celebrates 2022 by awarding 2,022 bonus points for every two qualifying nights that World of Hyatt members complete. The great news is that the nights do not have to be consecutive so if you are someone who makes a lot of one night stays you don’t have to worry as you’ll earn the bonus after your second one night stay and so. Members can earn the bonus for up 20 nights or a maximum of 20,220 bonus points. Registration and booking is now open for stays made between January 15 and April 20, 2022. You do have to register by March 15, 2022. There is also an additional bonus for World of Hyatt credit cardmembers if you happen to have one of those U.S. cards. (see below).Offer detailsEarn 2,022 bonus World of Hyatt Points for every 2 nights you stay at participating Hyatt Hotels Worldwide. Nights do not have to be consecutive. Maximum of 20,220 bonus points awarded per member. Click here for more details & to register for this offer…
Disappointment abounds in the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform
– RewardsCanada.ca
Now that the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform has been out for a couple of weeks and more people including ourselves have been able to test it out further it does seem like the general consensus is that it is bringing disappointment – at least for our readers that is.For the first few days after it launched there did appear to be some opportunities where you could get some outsized value for your miles when redeeming for travel. That is, more value than our old valuation of 11 to 15 cents per mile. That seemed to be corrected quickly by AIR MILES and now it seems extremely difficult to find any travel that exceeds that. In fact I conducted about dozen or so random searches and the highest redemption value I came across was 11.1 cents for a flight between Toronto and Winnipeg. All the rest of the searches were in the 7 to 11 cents per mile range. Some of those were with Gold member discounted pricing included! And what we hear from our readers is that they are seeing the same thing…
