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Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for January 2023
For this month, National Bank moved its offer to end in June 2023 and TD moved their offer to May 2023, while the HSBC offer is coming to an end. Limited Time First Year Fee Waived Offers We have listed…
Current 10% and Above Cash Back Offers for January 2023
For this month, Tangerine extended its offer that expired last month to expire this month instead. The rest of the offers remain the same. Keep in mind that we still have the Top Cash Back Credit Cards page, which includes permanent…
Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for January 2023
For this month’s list, quite a few offers (between Scotiabank and TD) expired on January 3, 2023. While National Bank and RBC have promotions expiring before the end of the month. Scotiabank pushed its offer till the end of the…
Fresh Insights: How Airport Lounge Operators Can Minimise Overcrowding and Enhance Guest Enjoyment
Today, we welcome back Daniel Kinnoch, CEO of LoungePair. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to provide us with your thoughts on overcrowding in airport lounges. **Use our 20% discount code POINTSHOGGER10 that you can…
My 2023 Predictions for the Miles and Points World
Back in 2016, I began a tradition of trying to predict the travel / rewards market in Canada. The first year was rough, but it got better over the years and recently levelling off. How did it go in 2022?…
Happy New Year! 2023 Wish List
Happy New Year Everyone!! A new year means a new wish list. Note that we generally provide a mid-term report on Canada Day (July 1) and a final report on New Year’s Eve. To be fair, all wishes have the goal of being…
New Year’s Eve! Recap of 2022
As we close out 2022, we continue with our year-end series of grading our wish list from our first post of the year. This report card is a continuation of our yearly mid-term report back on Canada Day (July 1st of…
Children Travel for $20 this Winter on VIA Rail
VIA Rail usually runs a weekly Discount Tuesday promotion whereby certain tickets go on sale for bookings made within a 24-hour period every Tuesday. This offer is taking a pause until January 10, 2023, while a children promotion will run…
Merry Christmas! Message to our Readers
Dear Pointshogger Readers, This post is going to be a little different from what you are used to. This is a letter of appreciation. We understand that it has been a rough past couple of years for many. We are…
Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for December 2022
For this month, there are no changes until next month’s list. Every thing stayed the same from last month. However, several offers are coming to an end before next month’s list. Limited Time First Year Fee Waived Offers We have…
Current 10% and Above Cash Back Offers for December 2022
For this month, the offers with BMO and Tangerine from last month that were expiring have all been extended. Now the Tangerine offers are set to expiry before month end. Keep in mind that we still have the Top Cash…
Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated December 12, 2022)
For the most part, 2022 was a relatively quiet year in terms of changes to the credit card industry (in terms of permanent offers). There was a significant amount of all-time high sign up bonuses, which do not factor into…