Here at Rewards Canada we’ve seen our fair share of credit cards come and go over the past 23 years. Some were really good, no, in fact, they were great cards that are truly missed! So we thought we’d take a trip down memory lane to look at the ones we wish were still available […]
Tag: Capital One
Introducing the Capital One Smart Rewards Mastercard
Add one more credit card to the tally for rewards cards in Canada. Capital One has recently introduced the Smart Rewards Mastercard. This card takes a new step for cards in Canada in how it rewards points. Cardholders will not earn points on each purchase but rather each time they pay down or pay off […]
The Top 5 Mastercard Cards to use at Costco Canada
We’ve updated our feature on the Top Mastercard cards to use at Costco due to the recent changes to the BMO CashBack World Elite Mastercard. The BMO card saw its earn rate at Costco drop from 1.5% to 1% which meant it dropped off this list of the best five cards to use at Costco […]
Capital One ending its relationship with Costco and Hudson’s Bay
While perusing Twitter last night I came across this tweet from Andrew Clarke (who used to do PR at Capital One Canada) announcing the changes coming to the American bank’s Canadian operations:
Grandfathered Capital One Aspire World Elite Mastercard will be devalued this August
Once upon a time there was a credit card that ruled the land. The Capital One Aspire Travel World Elite Mastercard was king. There was almost no matching it, it ranked as the number one travel points card in our annual rankings for years on end (even its predecessor the Miles Plus card won our […]
April 9 Update: Air Canada & WestJet to hire back laid off employees, even discontinued grandfathered Mastercards get new benefits & Air Canada’s May flight schedule
Air Canada and WestJet will re-hire over 16,000 and 6,000 employees respectively thanks to the Government of Canada’s Emergency Wage Subsidy. Here is a statement from WestJet’s CEO Ed Sims: “We are pleased to announce, after discussions with the federal government, that we will bring almost 6,400 employees back on the WestJet payroll, once the […]
July 30 Update: Capital One security breach affects up to 6 millions Canadians
Capital One is the latest company to be hacked and it affected a lot of Canadians according to their press release. The security breach affected about 6 million Canadians and of those approximately 1 million Social Insurance numbers were comprised. If you are or have been a Capital One cardholder you will be contacted by […]