In the US miles/points world, conferences are quite popular, but we’ve never had one dedicated for Canadians. I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at Points University next year! About PointsU The conference will be on January 16th, 2016, at the Sheraton Wall Center Vancouver. It will be a one day event with me and…
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Scotiabank buys Chase Canada Credit Portfolio
The big item in the news today is that JPMorgan Chase has sold their credit card portfolio in Canada to Scotiabank. This is big news, because Chase is one of two issuers with no foreign exchange fees on cards. What’s next? We’ve seen a lot of consolidation in the market. Capital One has axed their Delta and…
First Air Aeroplan Redemptions
It’s taken me a while (in my defence, as the weather cooled Resolute, Nunavut seemed less and less enticing), but finally, we come to probably the most important (or second most, after Canadian North) domestic Aeroplan partner – First Air. I talked about how they and Canadian North are intending to merge, but in the…
American Express Platinum Canada Review
Disclaimer: Please be aware that offers for credit cards referenced in this post may have changed since the time of publication. I’ve talked about the benefits of the American Express Platinum Card before such as American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts which offers some great value hotel deals, but the overall value of the Platinum Card…
Bearskin Airlines Aeroplan Redemptions
Bearskin Airlines is Aeroplan’s regional airline for travel within Ontario, and one of the smaller airlines within the Aeroplan “family”, so to speak. Over the past few years Bearskin Airlines have somewhat reduced their route network (previously serving Calm Air cities such as Flin Flon, as well as routes such as Kitchener to Montreal) and…
Air Creebec Aeroplan Redemptions
Continuing my round-the-clock coverage of everything beautiful about Aeroplan, let’s move on to one of the eastern partners, Air Creebec. As their name (sort of) suggests, they are Aeroplan’s resident Quebecois carrier (at least if you want to go anywhere north of Sept-Iles). Fun fact: they are entirely owned by the Cree, one of the…
Calm Air Aeroplan Redemptions
After the last post I’m hoping all of you have your tickets to Rankin Inlet and Norman Wells booked already 😉 – so let’s move a little to the south to Calm Air. Like Canadian North, Calm Air is also an Aeroplan partner for both earning and redeeming, and also like Canadian North, their revenue…
Redeeming Aeroplan Miles on Canadian North
Aeroplan has a great variety of special redemptions, and one of them is using Aeroplan miles for award travel on Canadian North, which can be a great value redemption using Aeroplan points. Canadian North, along with Air North and First Air serve the main trunk routes throughout the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. In fact, Canadian…
(Canada) 45,000 Points Signup Bonus for the RBC British Airways Infinite Visa!
(Note that I do not receive a credit for applications through this link at the time of publication as this offer is better than my affiliate offer. Thanks for reading!) We are seeing very strong signup bonuses for Canadian credit cards and they keep on getting better! The RBC British Airways Visa Infinite is a decent…
Credit Card Interchange Fees
Today, the Canadian Competition Bureau has just rejected a complaint from retailers about changing the way they pay fees to Visa and Mastercard. I found it interesting to read, as I know that in the States it is illegal in several states for retailers to charge “swipe fees.” It’s almost given that this would never happen…
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