Free tuition is good. But it’s just a start. + MORE Mar 2nd

The TD First Class Visa Infinite has a new sign up offer as of this month which sees it get better than what we’ve seen for a while. The great 40,000 point bonus remains but this time your first year annual fee is fully rebated instead of only 50% of it like we saw in the last offer. As you may or may not be aware this card was devalued on the redemption side when it was announced that travel bookings made outside of Expedia for TD would cost more points as of August 16th however that was further extended to November 15th. The 40,000 bonus points are worth $200 in travel which you get to enjoy fully since you have the first year free! TD First Class Visa Infinite Card• Receive a Welcome Bonus of 20,000 TD Points after your first Purchase • You could receive another 20,000 bonus TD Points if you keep your Account open, active and in good standing for 90 days after your Account is opened                  • 100% Annual Fee Rebate (Primary Cardholder only) for the first year – that’s $120 in savings• Offer Valid until May 27, 2016 Apply online for the  TD First Class Visa Infinite Card

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Huge day of news and updates!News, Tips & TricksWe stated their would be lots of updates and changes to loyalty programs and credit cards today! We’ve brought you most of them so far but there it at least one more new offer to come later. The biggest news we would peg as the new Companion Voucher Offers for the WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard followed by the Aeroplan news of being able to use miles for taxes and fees. All of the news so far have had their own posts here on the blog so you’ll find them in the list below!As we mentioned yesterday, the Air France KLM Flying Blue Promo Awards for March came out but then were pulled. Well they are back up and the only Canadian city included is Edmonton. You can save 25% of the normal miles required to fly in KLM World Business Class between Edmonton and Europe. Not like the 50% we saw before Christmas but still if you were planning to redeem soon at least now you can save 25%. Find out more here.  Posts since our last update: Scotia Momentum VISA Infinite Card – First Year Free when you apply for the card by May 31 Yesterday the Scotia Momentum VISA Infinite – $100 Statement Credit when you spend $500 in the first three months (Essentially…Coming Soon: Use your Aeroplan Miles to pay for taxes and fees on award flights About a year ago we posted about a targeted offer from Aeroplan whereby select members could use their Aeroplan…Say hello to the updated WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard – travelling with a companion just got way better! Back in January when we released our 2016 Top Travel Reward Credit Card rankings we alluded to changes coming to…New TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card offer – Up to 30,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles and First Year Free Yesterday the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Offer of 15,000 miles and 1st year free ended and has been replaced…Rocketmiles: 3,000 Bonus Miles/Points in the program of your choice for your first booking including Aeroplan If you have signed up with Rocketmiles but haven’t booked with them yet you would have received this email… Bonus Offers Air France KLM Flying Blue- Up to a 50% Bonus Miles when you buy Flying Blue Miles online…

Third year nursing students Valentina Blinova and Irene Moran study in the fireside reading room at the library on campus at UOIT in Oshawa, ON. (Photograph by Cole Garside)
For a guy hauling around almost $300 billion of debt, Charles Sousa was in a buoyant mood. Ontario’s finance minister had just announced that families making less than $50,000 would soon have free post-secondary education, and when we spoke, it was as if he were daring me to find fault in the idea. After all, he said, the Liberals were removing a critical barrier to higher education, the looming threat of a massive student debt. The idea was instantly applauded by a syllabus of education groups.
Days earlier, the education debate had exploded after Donald Trump declared that he “loved the poorly educated,” a phrase so heartbreakingly absurd that for a split second I thought Trump’s platform must have been crafted by Horshack from the old TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. If a society doesn’t aspire to educate its citizens to the highest possible degree, what good is it?
Free tuition is bold social policy and fundamentally ought to be considered a social good…

Third year nursing students Valentina Blinova and Irene Moran study in the fireside reading room at the library on campus at UOIT in Oshawa, ON. (Photograph by Cole Garside)
For a guy hauling around almost $300 billion of debt, Charles Sousa was in a buoyant mood. Ontario’s finance minister had just announced that families making less than $50,000 would soon have free post-secondary education, and when we spoke, it was as if he were daring me to find fault in the idea. After all, he said, the Liberals were removing a critical barrier to higher education, the looming threat of a massive student debt. The idea was instantly applauded by a syllabus of education groups.
Days earlier, the education debate had exploded after Donald Trump declared that he “loved the poorly educated,” a phrase so heartbreakingly absurd that for a split second I thought Trump’s platform must have been crafted by Horshack from the old TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. If a society doesn’t aspire to educate its citizens to the highest possible degree, what good is it?
Free tuition is bold social policy and fundamentally ought to be considered a social good…