
How to Choose a Credit Card in Canada (2026): Fees, Rates and Rewards Compared
Rewards are worth nothing if the interest rate eats them. Price the card by how you actually pay.

Rewards are worth nothing if the interest rate eats them. Price the card by how you actually pay.

Under the 35% criminal rate cap, the spread between prime-linked and instalment lenders is enormous.

Canadian transfer offers run shorter and cost more than US ones. The arithmetic is tighter.

A $120 fee needs $6,000 of spending at 2% before it earns a cent. Most people never get there.

No Canadian file means no history. The newcomer programmes that skip that deadlock, and the cost of each route.

A 300-900 scale, two private bureaus, and the five inputs that decide it. Plus how to read your own file free.

The ceiling is a criminal-law threshold, not a consumer protection. Know what it does and does not cover.