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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Starbucks Sip-Tember to Remember offers bonus Aeroplan points + a chance to win up to 100,000 points + MORE Sep 7th
Air Canada Aeroplan and Starbucks have brought back the Sip-Tember to Remember promotion to earn bonus points on Starbucks purchases and a chance to win Aeroplan points. The contest consists of a 100,000 Aeroplan Points grand prize and four weekly prizes of 25,000 Aeroplan points. During the promoti.... More »
Receive a $75 Visa gift card, save some $$ and still earn points plus elite credit for stays at two Marriott Hotels in Victoria Aug 23rd
Here we have one addition to the post we had late in July that showed some of these regional tourism board offers we have writing about are better than just getting a gift card. In that previous post we showed that they offers actually price better than the best available rates at select hotels and .... More »
Stock market news for Canadian investors: BMO, Scotiabank and National Bank report earnings + MORE Feb 26th
Companies that reported earnings this week
BMO
Scotiabank
National Bank
BMO Financial Group reports $2.14B Q1 profit up from $1.29B a year ago
Source: Google
BMO (TSE: BMO)
Q1 earnings: $2.14 billion, up from $1.29 billion a year earlier.
Revenue: $9.27 billion,.... More »
How to find room to save in 2026—even with tight budgets Jan 10th
Saving more in 2026 is a common new year’s resolution, but with budgets tight and inflation driving the cost of groceries and everyday necessities higher, it’s easier said than done. Financial planning experts say it takes a careful review of where you’re spending to find ways to s.... More »
3 affordable South American destinations to stretch your travel dollar Jul 19th
With some Canadians skipping the United States in favour of destinations further afield, countries like Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina are attracting more attention. Bolivia is the cheapest of the three, although travellers from Canada will find all of them relatively affordable.
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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 +Rewards Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 30,000 bonus points, no annual fee in the first year and a low 11.9% interest rate! Best Western Rewards is cutting its Elite Status eligibility qualifications in half for 2021. This means you can achieve Gold Elite Status with just five nights, three stays or 5,000 points. All other levels have also been halved, see the chart below for the qualification requirements. Learn more here. Remember you also get automatic Gold Status and a fast track to Diamond Status with the MBNA Best Western Mastercard or you can also take part in their super easy status match offer if you have status with another hotel program. Images via Best Western— Marriott International has signed a long term agreement with Canada’s Sunwing Travel Group’s Blue Diamond Resorts…You can now exchange WestJet companion vouchers for lounge access and gift Gold Elite status with your milestone awards
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Back in November of 2020 WestJet released the news that new benefits were set to come for WestJet Rewards members who have a WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard and members who hold Gold or Platinum Elite status. One is the ability to convert the companion voucher earned on the Mastercard to lounge passes and the other for the elite members is the gifting of elite status. The good news is those two new benefits officially launched today on February 10th. Let’s take a look at these new benefits:Trade a companion voucher for lounge vouchers Those WestJet Rewards members who have a WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard now have the option to convert the annual companion voucher received from the card into lounge access vouchers. One companion voucher will net you 4 lounge access vouchers. Is it worth to convert your companion vouchers? It can be, if you know you won’t be utilizing the voucher you can convert it to the lounge access vouchers as they take the companion voucher that is closest to expiring if you happen to hold more than one…Clash of the Credit Cards! HSBC World Elite Mastercard vs. Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card
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Welcome to another Rewards Canada Clash! If you listened to our podcast from June 2020 entitled Clash of the Credit Cards – you’ll know that we’ve changed our Showdown features to Clashes. The reason why is that lots of sites and blogs are using Showdown now, some are using battle so we wanted to continue to be unique so our comparisons are now Clashes! This time we have another Clash of the Credit Cards that pits two of the best No Foreign Transaction fee cards in Canada against each other! Those cards are the HSBC World Elite® Mastercard® and the Scotiabank Passport™ Visa Infinite* Card Continue on to the main Rewards Canada site to read the Clash in its entirety! 
