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Best Ever Bonus for the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card: Earn up to 55,000 RBC Rewards Points! Aug 13th
RBC has brought their flagship card into the game of bigger and better bonuses. So many other issuers have been steadily increasing the offers on their cards - many with their best ever bonuses - and even RBC has done so on their British Airways, Cathay Pacific and WestJet cards. And for this summer.... More »
June 15 Update: New Amex offer for goodfood, Fairmont Stay Close extended for Canadian mountain resorts and Flair & Swoop's summer flight schedules + MORE Jun 15th
Yet another excellent Amex offer came out today - this one is for the prepared meal service goodfood and provides a $20 statement credit when you spend $80 or more. Rewards Canada contributor Jeff W. let us know he got it on his Marriott Bonvoy card while in the Rewards Canada household we got i.... More »
For Spanish and Catalan economies, no winners from standoff - National Post + MORE Oct 29th
Irish ExaminerFor Spanish and Catalan economies, no winners from standoffNational PostMADRID — Xavier Gabriel can take some credit if the tiny Catalan mountain town of Sort is one of the most famous in Spain. He runs a lottery shop called La Bruja de Oro, or The Golden Witch, in a town whose name,.... More »
Earn 5x miles when you use BMO AIR MILES cards at select partners + MORE May 28th
BMO, the potential suitor for the AIR MILES program has revealed a limited time promotion to earn more miles on their co-brand credit cards for the summer. Holders of any of the BMO AIR MILES Mastercards will earn 5x AIR MILES when using their cards at select AIR MILES partners. For most of these pa.... More »
BMO replaces Air Miles with new Blue Rewards program + MORE Jan 28th
BMO Financial Group has announced it will replace Air Miles with a new loyalty rewards program called Blue Rewards this summer. It said the new program will be available for all Canadians through a newly designed Blue Rewards app, and will be integrated into BMO’s existing mobile banking app a.... More »
Earn up to 4,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles for Marriott stays
– RewardsCanada.ca
We brought you this new offer from Aeroplan for Marriott stays a few days ago in our bonus offer section but felt it was a good enough offer to have its own post! Much like the Fairmont offer we mentioned a few weeks back this offer is done through Aeroplan not Marriott, which means as long as you stay is mileage earning eligible and you select Aeroplan as your default in Marriott Rewards you can book the rate you like, take advantage of any other potential bonuses etc. If you are not a Marriott Rewards member and complete your first stay you’ll earn 2,000 bonus miles! Offer DetailsEarn up to 4,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles when you stay at Marriott Hotels Worldwide. Register Online (Registration is required) then book online at marriott.com Until Jan 31, 15There are two parts to this promotion: 1) Earn up to 2,500 bonus miles (500+750+1250); and 2) Earn 2,000 bonus miles for new Marriott Rewards Members; which totals 4,500 possible bonus miles during the promotion…Average credit card interest rates rise to 15.07 percent
– creditcards.com
Oct. 1, 2014: Average rates on new card offers jumped this week to their highest point in nearly three years, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.
Inside the NHL: Sam Bennett is chasing the dream
– macleans.ca
Photograph by Todd KorolIf Sam Bennett fulfills half the expectation that comes with his billing—top-rated skater going into the NHL draft; highest pick in Calgary Flames history—then his great Uncle Wally is surely in line for some credit. It was he, after all, who came downstairs one day 15 years ago to find three-year-old Sam tearing around the basement on a disused set of rollerblades, boots three sizes too large. The boy was skating like he’d been born in them, weaving at full speed around furniture in a preview of how he would one day treat opposition defencemen, and Wally called upstairs to Bennett’s dad: “Dave, you’d better come down and take a look.” The two men stared for a while, awestruck, before Wally murmured, “I think you might have something here.”
That prophecy would resonate last June, as Dave and his wife, Diane, sat in a hotel lobby in Philadelphia, one day from the 2014 NHL entry draft. Like many parents of hockey prodigies, they are to this day bereft of any convincing explanation as to their son’s near-supernatural gift…
Credit reports hold longer memory than issuers
– creditcards.com
You let a card go unpaid for years, then finally paid the account off. The odds of the card issuer remembering your behavior aren’t as big as the credit bureaus
Inside the NHL: Sam Bennett is chasing the dream
– macleans.ca
Photograph by Todd KorolIf Sam Bennett fulfills half the expectation that comes with his billing—top-rated skater going into the NHL draft; highest pick in Calgary Flames history—then his great Uncle Wally is surely in line for some credit. It was he, after all, who came downstairs one day 15 years ago to find three-year-old Sam tearing around the basement on a disused set of rollerblades, boots three sizes too large. The boy was skating like he’d been born in them, weaving at full speed around furniture in a preview of how he would one day treat opposition defencemen, and Wally called upstairs to Bennett’s dad: “Dave, you’d better come down and take a look.” The two men stared for a while, awestruck, before Wally murmured, “I think you might have something here.”
That prophecy would resonate last June, as Dave and his wife, Diane, sat in a hotel lobby in Philadelphia, one day from the 2014 NHL entry draft. Like many parents of hockey prodigies, they are to this day bereft of any convincing explanation as to their son’s near-supernatural gift…
