Clash of the Credit Cards! Desjardins Cash Back World Elite®Mastercard® vs. Scotia Momentum® VISA* Infinite card

 

Welcome to another Rewards Canada Clash! This time in our Clash of the Credit Cards we pit two very strong cash back cards against each other! Those cards are the Desjardins Cash Back World Elite®Mastercard® and the Scotia Momentum® VISA* Infinite card You will also find this Clash posted on the main Rewards Canada site.

September 27 Update: Marriott's Week of Wonders returns on Oct 7 and you have one week left to vote for your favourite credit cards & loyalty programs

 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.

 

Marriott Bonvoy’s Week of Wonders are set to return in just under two weeks! Last year the week long promotion saw discounts for shopping through the Marriott Bonvoy Boutique, a bonus for buying Marriott points, a free night offer with Homes & Villas by Marriott International and quite possibly the most popular of them was the award night sale offering Off-Peak pricing at almost all Marriott hotels Worldwide. There is no word just yet as to what will be included this year but based on last year’s offerings you can bet the newest set of credit card offers released last week and the Marriott’s systemwide 1,500 bonus points per stay offer will be promoted as part of the Week of Wonders as well. Click here to learn more about the upcoming Week of Wonders – hopefully this will be updated soon as there isn’t much on the page yet other than a countdown clock 

Receive up to an 80% bonus when you buy Aeroplan points

Aeroplan has brought back a buy points bonus for the next couple of weeks. This tiered offer sees bonuses once again ranging from 50% to 80% dependent on how many points you buy. This offer runs until October 11 and allows members to buy up to 350,000 points per transaction up to the annual limit of 1 million points. If you buy 5,000 to 19,000 points you'll earn a 50% bonus, 20,000 to 55,000 points will earn a 60% bonus, 60,000 to 105,000 points earns 70%  and 110,000+ will earn the 80% bonus.

Air Canada Aeroplan status match for U.S. residents

 
Here's a great offer for our U.S. readers! Today Air Canada Aeroplan in conjunction with Destination Canada and Statusmatch.com have launched a status match offer for those who hold status with any one of six select U.S. airline programs. Once matched the member will receive status until the end of 2021 and then if they complete one round trip flight with Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge or Air Canada Express by January 15, 2022 they will keep the status until the end of 2022.

September 23 Update: Get three free months of Instacart Express with select TD cards & Air Canada Aeroplan Birthday Bonus

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.

TD and Instacart have extended their offer for three free months of Instacart Express. Those who have TD Access Card with Visa Debit or a TD Travel Rewards Credit Card are eligible for the offer. Also those who have TD Travel Rewards Credit Card will earn 2x points on all Instacard orders. This offer now ends on October 22, 21. Learn more here.

Earn up to 30 bonus dollars when you fly with WestJet within Canada

Here's a nice bonus for flying with WestJet in Canada! You can earn 15 bonus WestJet dollars for each one way flight you complete during the promotional period. You can earn the bonus for up to two of those one ways flights (essentially one round trip flight) for flights booked in; Econo, EconoFlex, Premium, PremiumFlex, Business, Businessflex fare classes. Basic and Member Exclusive Fares are excluded from the offer. Taking a page from Air Canada's playbook WestJet has made this bonus only valid on new bookings made from today through to October 3. If you already have flights that you booked prior to today those won't be eligible. Also note the only bookings made directly with WestJet (online or by phone) count towards the bonus.

The Ultimate Guide to Credit Card & Loyalty Programs for the All Inclusive Vacationer

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 credit card points and loyalty programs for All Inclusive Vacations!

As Canadians we know what it’s like to live with long, drawn out winters. We dread the short daylight hours and the biting wind. So how do we as a nation battle the season we look forward to before Christmas but are sick of by the first week of January? We travel. We travel to warmer sun drenched locales and for many of us that means an all inclusive vacation. Canadian winters and all inclusive vacations go hand in hand.

Save up to 30% for stays at Fairmont and Accor Hotels in Canada and the rest of the Americas

 
Fairmont Hotel's Take Your Time promotion has returned for the fall and winter. This has been their go to promotion for the past year when they weren't running the ever so popular Stay Close offer. Take Your Time provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Fairmont and Accor Hotels in North and Central America. 

September 22 Update: CIBC unveils a new look, your weekly Shoppers/Rexall bonuses and more!

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 World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 70,000 bonus points and no annual fee in the first year! 

 

 
CIBC unveiled a new logo and new look today to all their branding that will start appearing at branches and in all their marketing as of tomorrow.. This includes changes to their credit card designs of which we have a sneak peek at one of the Aventura cards with its embossed globe graphics. (Source CIBC)

It's time for TD to update their TD First Class Travel Visa Infinite Card

 
Over the course of this year we have had several articles covering credit cards in Canada that we feel are due for an overhaul. It all started out with our first post way back in January - initially we wanted to cover all five cards in that post however we wrote so much about the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card we decided to split up the articles and now three quarters of the year later we finish off the series for this year. The fifth and final card we are going to look that we feel is in need of a revamp/update/overhaul is the TD® First Class Travel® Visa Infinite* Card.