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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Podcast Episode 99: Loyalty Lesson – Credit Card Spending Caps Explained Dec 20th
In this episode we provide our first Loyalty Lesson podcast. If you read the Rewards Canada site regularly you may have already seen this feature but just in case you haven’t, the Loyalty Lesson is Credit Card Spending Caps explained! We look at how credit card issuers place caps on the acc.... More »
RWRDS Daily Update – April 4, 2024 Apr 4th
Get up to 10,000 points back when you book with Aeroplan HotelSavers and earn double Skywards miles on Emirates flights out of Montreal & Toronto. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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March 4 Update: Up to a 50% discount on Fiji Airways award flights with Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, the latest AIR MILES card linked offers & double status miles with TAP + MORE Mar 5th
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your 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, ha.... More »
Match your Air Canada Aeroplan Elite Status to the new Atmos Rewards from Alaska Airlines + MORE Aug 23rd
A reminder that as part of their Mileage Plan program, Alaska Airlines has had a long running elite status match and fast track offer which continues to be offered as part of their new Atmos Rewards program. The offer includes matches from Air Canada Aeroplan, so if you are an Air Canada elite membe.... More »
Aeroplan members can now earn points when flying on Air Mauritius Mar 14th
Back in December Air Canada's Aeroplan added two new airline partners, Oman Air and Air Mauritius. The latter started off as a redemption partner only but as of today Aeroplan members can now also earn Aeroplan points when flying on the national airline of Mauriitius. The airline flies to some major.... More »
What are they thinking? BMO is changing their best credit card and for the most part it’s getting worse
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Wow, thanks to our frequent news tip contributor @Joshnet we learned of some unexpected credit card news today. BMO is making changes to their BMO World Elite™* MasterCard®*. This card is the best travel card in the BMO portfolio of cards but in general over the years it has fallen in the ranks in the entire Canadian credit card market. Back in 2015 it was #1 in our Travel Points Cards with Annual Fee category but with multiple devaluations it started dropping down and is now 5th spot. Now, it appears the card may even fall out of the top 5 completely thanks to the changes that BMO has announced to the card. Name Change The first change to the card is the card name. The BMO World Elite Mastercard is being renamed the BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard on May 3.Earn Rate ChangesThis is the area of concern with the newly revamped card, BMO is changing the earn rates. Two accelerated categories do get better, some stay the same and the base earn rate…. well let’s just say BMO took the axe to it…
February 3 Update: Earn 2x elite qualifying points on your IHG stays, Flair Airlines 50% off to the U.S. & Mexico flash sale and Avianca Latin America seat sale
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Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your bear 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! A reminder that you can now earn Double IHG Rewards Points (Elite Qualifying) on all stays at IHG Hotels & Resorts in Canada and worldwide. Register and book now for stays Feb 1 – Mar 31, 22. Click here to register for and to book stays with this offer.Image via IHG— Flair Airlines has a one day only Flash Sale offering 50% off base fares for flights to the U.S. or Mexico. Flights must be booked today (Feb 3) for travel between February 10 and June 30. Click here to learn more and to book this offer.Image via Flair Airlines — Avianca is also offering a great seat sale with flights to El Salvador as low as C$159 one way, Guatemala City starts at $224 and Bogota from $274…
Earn up to 50,000 welcome bonus points worth $500 or more when you get the best credit card in Canada
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As you may already know the American Express Cobalt® Card had some amazing changes made to it last summer that added more fuel to the already best travel rewards credit card and made it the best cash back credit card in Canada. And if you don’t have the card yet you’re in luck as American Express is still offering the best ever welcome bonus offer in its four plus year history. This offer has now been in the market since last August and while there is no word of it ending anytime soon we thought it would be good to bring attention to it for many of our new readers. To get a 50,000 points bonus on this card is very compelling given how valuable it is with its up to 5x points earn rate, super flexible travel and cash back redemption options and importantly, being able to transfer 1:1 to Air Canada Aeroplan and British Airways Executive Club.Welcome bonus Here’s how the welcome bonus offer is structured on the American Express Cobalt Card:In your first year as a new Cobalt Cardmember, you can earn 2,500 Membership Rewards® points for each monthly billing period in which you spend $500 in net purchases on your Card…
Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for February – These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses
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Here are Rewards Canada’s Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of February 2022. 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.Two changes this month in the list, the TD Cash Back Visa Infinite Card received an additional boost to its current welcome bonus that moved it up to third spot from fifth. We also saw the end of the Tangerine 15% bonus so those cards dropped out of 10th spot allowing the MBNA Rewards World Elite Mastercard to move onto the list.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…
