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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This Week in RWRDS April 4, 2025: The best credit card welcome bonuses for April + MORE Apr 5th
This week we look at the best credit card welcome bonus offers for this month, a 25% discount on reward flights from Montreal to Europe and beyond, Fiji Airways joining the oneworld alliance and much more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast! Watch This Week in RWRDS here: Listen t.... More »
The real costs of buying a car + MORE Mar 29th
The thrill of driving a new car off a dealer’s lot is appealing, but experts warn not to let the new car smell go to your head when it comes to borrowing money to make it happen.
Mark Kalinowski, a credit counsellor and financial educator at the Credit Counselling Society, says you need to know.... More »
How a young couple can kill $142,000 in debt and start investing Mar 19th
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Julie and David live in Calgary with their two daughters, ages 10 and 7. David, 40, is a cable technician earning $150,000 annually while Julie, 37, works part-time at a retail store near home earning $6,000 annually. In 2014, their lives changed when David fell on the job and injured his lef.... More »
Air Canada: Double Aeroplan Miles for flights between Canada & London Heathrow Mar 5th
Air Canada appears to be making another strike at WestJet's upcoming service to London. Not only are they launching Rouge service between Toronto and Gatwick they are now doubling up the miles earned on their Canada-London Heathrow routes for the remainder of the year! Simply register and book by Ap.... More »
Top 5 Credit Card Sign Up offers for June
– RewardsCanada.ca
Here are the Rewards Canada’s Top 5 Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of June! This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the sign up bonus, but when most of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when not taking into account insurance packages and other non-reward benefits. In fact 4 of 5 cards on this list for June are first year free so you can try them out at no cost and decide later on if the card is right for you. All the while earning the sign up bonus which can be used to subsidize your travels! The only card that isn’t first year free is the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. It has an annual of $120 but the new sign up bonus of 20,000 Starpoints is worth no less than $400 depending on what you value Starpoints at…
Jun 3 Update: Aeroplan ClassicFlight Rewards become Fixed Mileage Flight Rewards, major changes coming to Etihad Guest, Earn up to $150 WestJet Dollars
– RewardsCanada.ca
Here is your middle of the week update! News, Tips & TricksIf you haven’t been on Aeroplan’s website lately you may not know but a few weeks they changed the name of their ClassicFlight awards to Fixed Mileage Flight Rewards and have kept the Market Fare Flight Rewards. The name change makes sense in terms of explaining what the two offerings are. To go along with the change Aeroplan has created an infographic that explains the differences between the two. The screen shot below is just a part of the infographic, you can view it in its entirety on the Aeroplan site.Etihad Airways announced that changes will be coming to their Guest program as of July 8th. As with any major program overhaul there is good news and bad news. We aren’t going to look at indepthly but here are some highlights (or lowlights) mileage earning is increasing in four fare classes but also decreasing in two fare class, they are increasing the number of GuestSeats in Business Class by 20% (lowest award booking level) on some of their busy routes (Toronto is not one of them), carrier surcharges are being added to all GuestSeat rewards (ranging from $50 to $150 per sector), the number of miles required for GuestSeat rewards are changing…Rate survey: Average card rates don’t budge
– creditcards.com
June 3, 2015: Average rates on new credit card offers remained unchanged Wednesday, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.
Canada: A top destination for tourists
– moneysense.ca
(Oleksiy Maksymenko/Getty Images)Where do international travellers want to go? According to a MasterCard’s new Global Destinations Index three Canadian cities made the top 10 list when it comes to popular North American destinations.
Beating out popular tourist locations of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. were Toronto (in fourth place), Vancouver (in fifth place) and Montreal (in eighth place). The ranking is based on the number of international overnight visitors the city sees and how much they spend.
In 2015, Toronto had 4.18 million international overnight visitors who spent US$2.4 billion. Vancouver had 3.76 million international visitors who spent US$2.7 billion. Montreal saw 2.12 million international visitors who spent a total of US$1.2 billion in the city.
Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal also ranked among North America’s top 10 fastest growing destination cities over the seven-year period between 2009 and 2015 that MasterCard has been compiling the Index…
