Earn up to $250 in statement credits when booking Air Canada flights with an Aeroplan co-brand credit card + MORE May 13th

Here’s your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.   Rewards Canada reader Daylen S. alerted us to a pair of new rewards credit cards in Canada. Canadian Western Bank has partnered with Brim Financial to offer the CWB Rewards Mastercard® and World Elite® Mastercard. Both cards are very similiar to those offered by Brim themselves with just a couple minor changes. For example the CWB Rewards World Elite Mastercard is only $120 insteand of $199 but it does not feature No Foreign Transaction fees like the Brim version. It does have the same earn rate of 2% back on all purchases up to $25,000 annually, the same insurance benefits and the standard World Elite benefits like Mastercard Airport Experiences by LoungeKey. Right now you can try out the WE card for free as they are waiving the annual fee in the first year. You can learn more about the new CWB cards here. Watch for them to be added to various parts of Rewards Canada over the coming weeks…

 The latest AIR MILES Bonus Boom event kicked off today with a whole bunch of bonus miles offers for shopping or completing actions with various AIR MILES partners. Most of the bonuses are available between today and May 26 and once again if you use three different Bonus Boom offers you’ll get 95 bonus AIR MILES. Just like the last offer that ended in April you have the ability to get the 95 bonus miles all from one retailer so long as they have multiple offers. For example Sobeys has three different offers available so if you meet the criteria for those three offers you’ll get the 95 bonus miles. With Bonus Boom you can earn well over 1,000 bonus miles with all the offers but in reality most serious collectors will be earning upward of several hundred miles. It really depends on what shopping you need to get done – for example you can earn two of three offer simply by redeeming 95 cash miles at Safeway and spending $100 in store. Then you have your usual type of bonus offers from BMO, AIR MILES Shops, Shell, Staples, Global Pet Foods and more…

 Rewards Canada Twitter follower iLive2Eat alerted us to some changes coming to the insurance benefits on their Scotia Passsport Visa Infinite Card so we went to Scotia’s site to check out if there are any details about the changes and there are. These changes actually affect more cards than just the Visa Infinite Card and are effective as of July 1, 2021. Screenshot from Scotia’s site announcing the changes It appears the changes are primarily taking place as Scotia is switching to Manulife as their insurance provider and are listed out by Scotia as follows:These are the changes affecting most of the cards:1. We are changing insurance providers to The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and First North American Insurance Company, members of the Manulife group of companies (“Manulife”);2. For Travel Emergency Medical Insurance, we are making the following changes: (a) Expanding the definition of Insured Person to include all Cardmembers (Cardmember includes the Primary Cardmember and, any supplemental Cardmember who is a natural person resident in Canada);(b) Extending coverage to Dependent Children while they are not traveling with a Cardmember or their Spouse…

 Marriott launched a new buy points promotion today that is a little different than we are accustomed to. Instead of offering a bonus when buying they have gone the route of discounting the points purchases. This discount is 30% which means means you are buying points for 0.875 cents (US$) each. This is an alright price but not as good as the 50% bonus (0.83 cents each) or 60% bonus (0.78 cents each) we had seen recently over the past few months. Still with many Marriott free night awards easily coming out with a value of 1 cent or more per point it can be worth it to buy points at this price – for example in our review of the Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card  we provide an example where you can redeem for a stay with a value of 2.7 cents (US$) per point!Offer detailsReceive a 30% discount when you buy 2,000 or more Marriott Bonvoy Points. The annual limit of points that can be bought per member has been increased to 100,000 during this promotion. Buy Marriott Bonvoy Points here…

Air Canada and their credit card partners revealed a nice booking bonus for future travel! That bonus is in the form of statement credits on any of their premium and ultra premium cards from TD, CIBC and American Express. All you have to do is simply register for the offer by June 30, 2020 (so there is time to get one of these cards if you don’t have one yet) and then book flights on Air Canada by December 31, 2021 for travel right through to the end of 2022. The cash back credit is $25 per booking for the premium cards and you can earn up to 5 credits for a total of $125 cash back while the ultra premium cards see a $50 per booking credit for up to 5 bookings for a total of $250 cash back.Recommended reading: The New Aeroplan credit cards comparedThe offer is valid for the following card products along with registration links for each individual CIBC and TD cards. The Amex cards you simply log in to your account and you’ll find it under Amex Offers:  TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card: Earn a $25 statement credit, up to a total of $125 for Air Canada flight bookings Register your card for this offer here…