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The best store credit cards in Canada right now + MORE Aug 14th
Creatures of habit, rejoice! Your loyal shopping behaviours may just pay off, big time. If you shop regularly at certain retailers, using a store credit card can help you to earn discounts, free goods and exclusive perks by swiping or tapping for everyday purchases. Spending with a store credit card.... More »
Loyalty Lesson: How to extract more value from Avion Rewards Mar 31st
If you have the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card in your wallet you’ll want to read this to see how you can extract more value from Avion Rewards. For well over a decade it has been one of Canada’s most popular credit cards. There are in the neighbourhood of one million or more Canadians jus.... More »
Over 40 new American Express Cobalt Card Confirmed Multiplier locations Oct 11th
Our American Express Cobalt Card Confirmed Multiplier Locations feature received a nice big update over the past few days thanks to Andre, Ben and ourselves. Andre provided a bunch more locations Quebec, Ontario, Atlantic Canada and Europe. Ben gave us our first non-chain locations in Sudbury and we.... More »
The Ultimate Guide to Credit Card & Loyalty Programs for the All Inclusive Vacationer + MORE Sep 23rd
This feature was originally published on the Rewards Canada website in October of 2019 and has been updated for 2021! With travel starting to open up more for Canadians many people will be looking to get away this winter to some sunny destinations and the good news is you can use your cred.... More »
RWRDS Daily Update – February 14 + MORE Feb 15th
The Ultimate Guide to Credit Card & Loyalty Programs for the All Inclusive Vacationer and a new offer for the National Bank Platinum Mastercard. Check out today's points and miles updates here:
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The postponed Scotiabank Rewards devaluation for some non-travel redemptions will now take place on April 1
– RewardsCanada.ca
In January of 2020 Scotiabank revealed they were going to change the points requirements for some of their non-travel redemption options. You can read our original post about the changes here. However it didn’t take long for Scotia to reverse course because of the Coronavirus pandemic causing a shift in how Canadians were using their points. Only about a week after most of the country went into lockdown they announced that they were postponing the redemption option changes due to the uncertain times ahead. As travel was curtailed and financial woes hit I’m sure cardholders were happy to redeem Points for Credit without the planned devaluation. Fast forward to now and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it appears Scotia will now go ahead with their changes as of April 1st. The redemption options that are changing are Points for Credit (aka Cash Back) and the Apple and Best Buy catalog. There is no note of changes to gift card redemption options as was seen in the changes from last year so it is possible they aren’t changing those…
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! On January 11th we provided details on the next iteration of Fairmont’s Stay Close offer where you can get your second night free on stays at select Fairmont Hotels and in that post we also gave details on how you could earn Triple ALL Rewards points on those stays if you booked by Janaury 15. Now we can tell if you missed the triple points you can stil get a bonus as ALL Accor Live Limitless launched a new bonus today offering Double ALL Rewards Points on all stays that are booked by March 31 for completion by June 30. Sure Double Points doesn’t match the Triple we had before but it’s better than no bonus at all! What you need to do is simply register for the offer here first and then book your Fairmont Stay Close stay here…The Platinum Card from American Express will lose its Shangri-La Golden Circle Jade Elite Status benefit on March 31
– RewardsCanada.ca
Earlier in the month the U.K. based points and miles blog Head for Points announced the U.K. version of the Platinum Card from American Express was losing its Shangri-La Hotels Golden Circle Jade elite status benefit. Rewards Canada immediately reached out to American Express Canada who confirmed this is the case for Canadian cardholders as well. At Amex Canada’s request we didn’t release the details until now as Platinum Cardmembers will be receiving details on their next statement about the departure of this benefit. Based on the U.K. and Canada losing this benefit I am under the impression this is a change seen by American Express globally. While news like this isn’t what we like to hear as it always hurts to lose benefits from a card the one bright light is that this benefit does not end right away. In fact it will be available for existing and new cardholders until March 31, 2021. So that’s where you need to get a plan into action and activate this benefit if you haven’t done so yet…
