Credit Cards

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Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for February 2022

For this month, all the promotions that expired last month were extended. Brim and Laurentian Bank extended its offer last month to expire this month, while HSBC pushed it to early April.

That leaves several Scotiabank offers expiring this month. 

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Current 10% and Above Cash Back Offers for February 2022

For this month, Tangerine dropped their 15% cash back off that expired last month down to 10%, which expires this month.

Keep in mind that we still have the Top Cash Back Credit Cards page, which includes permanent and temporary offers if you wish to see a more complete list of cards, not just cards that offer at least 10% cash back.

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Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for February 2022

Scotiabank has several offers ending this month. The RBC British Airways bonus is coming to an end. If you have been contemplating them for a while now, now is as good a time to get them as any!

Top Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses

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Top Credit Cards for Purchasing Gas (updated January 31, 2022)

I cannot believe that it has been almost 7 years since I last updated this post. There is no question that this post can use an update, especially considering how much gas prices have gone up over the last 12 months in Canada.

The better strategy is still to purchase gas using a credit card to meet minimum spend requirements for new promotional sign up bonuses.

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Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for January 2022

For this month, several offers are coming to an end, notably the HSBC offers. Aside from that, Canada has a healthy amount of first year fee waived promotional offers overall with BMO, Scotiabank and TD leading the way. Hope to see other companies jump on board! 

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Comparing the Best Current No Annual Fee Cards

See also: Top No Annual Fee Credit Cards

The most frequently asked question that I get when talking to people is: “What is the best credit card?” This is  a very subjective question where the answer varies depending on the person’s priorities.

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Current 10% and Above Cash Back Offers for January 2022

At the beginning of the month, we predicted that the cash back market is going to heat up this year. So I am expecting to be very busy with updating this monthly post this year. To start the year off, the two Tangerine 15% cash back offers end this month, while Scotiabank has added its Momentum card to the list. 

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Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for January 2022

It is already 2022! To kick off the year with our first monthly higher than normal sign up bonus post, the National Bank offers ended last month and were not extended, so we will see if they offer another one later this year. The Scotiabank Gold American Express was set to expire, but now extended to February 28, 2022 to align with a couple other Scotiabank offers. Today is the last day for the two RBC WestJet offers.

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Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for December 2021

TD had most of their promotion ending from last month’s list, but they ended up extending most of their offers to March 2022 (with some minor tweaks to the offer) or May 2022.

The Brim offer is coming to an end this month. Usually they extended it by 1 month at a time. This time around, they extended by a rare 2 months in one shot, so there is a chance this will really come to an end this time. Or maybe they will offer something different instead starting January. Either way, if you have been thinking about this card for a while now, as is as good a time as any to go for it. 

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Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated December 21, 2021)

It has been just over a year since our last update (December 1, 2020) of the rankings list. The timing works well to update again this month, since we are coming to the end of the year. Now we get a snapshot of 2021, as we head into 2022.