Author: Matt

Matt has been an avid points collector since 1992 (an elementary school student), when his dad signed up for the new (at the time) Air Miles program. Since then, Matt took a keen interest in learning how the miles and points world works. He quickly found out that there is a lot of value in leveraging miles and points to fund his passion for travelling.

Factors Affecting Your Credit Score

Credit scores appear to be a hot topic lately. Especially with all these new mortgage rule changes, qualifying for a mortgage is definitely a contentious issue. Therefore, having a strong credit score will be important. With the desire to participate in the miles and points game, how do we juggle everything? Today, I will discuss all the factors affecting your credit score.

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Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers for March 2017

Seems like cash back credit cards have become quite popular in Canada. So I thought I’d provide a monthly Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers post.

Keep in mind that the list is going to provide the better than normal sign up bonus offers. If you want to stay up to date with any cash back credit card offers, you can visit the Top Cash Back Credit Cards page.

For now, check out the monthly promotional offers ranked by annual fees:

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[INTERVIEW] ‎President of Marriott Canada – Don Cleary

Today, we feature Don Cleary of Marriott Hotels Canada. Last time, we did an audio interview with Vice President Global Loyalty Thom Kozik (Marriott) that you can find on YouTube.

This time around, I thought I’d go with a written interview instead. Due to a time sensitive schedule, I was unable to request questions from our readers. However, if you do have any questions, please let us know in the comment section and I will forward them directly to Marriott!

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Comparison of Canada and U.S. Chase Marriott Credit Cards

This idea came from a comment in my Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses post. Thanks Jeff!

Both Canada and the United States offer their own versions of a co-branded Marriott Rewards credit card, each offered by the Chase Bank. In the U.S., there are currently 2 completely different offers to watch out for. Canada also has two offers, but I will only mention one of them, which I will explain below. Let’s start with the highlights of each credit card:

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Comparison between TD, CIBC and RBC Travel Cards

We received a question from Pointshogger reader, Bernard, asking us to do a comparison of the TD First Class, CIBC Aventura and RBC Avion cards.

For this post, I will compare one credit card from each company that is the most similar. The highlights of each are are as follows, and I will write up the analysis afterwards: