About Yore Oyster

Yore Oyster keeps Canada’s most complete benefit payment calendar: every federal and provincial payment date for CPP, OAS, GIS, the Canada Child Benefit, the GST/HST credit, disability assistance and more, checked against official government sources every 15 minutes. We started in 2014 and also publish plain-English guides to the rest of your money in Canada.

What we cover

  • Government benefits — CPP, OAS, EI, the Canada Child Benefit, GST credit and provincial support
  • Credit cards — rewards, travel points, welcome bonuses and fees
  • Banking — chequing, savings accounts, GICs and online banks
  • Investing — brokers, ETFs, dividends and trading platforms
  • Earn & save — cash-back apps, signup bonuses and ways to spend less
  • Business — virtual mailboxes, business addresses and tools for small businesses

Who’s behind it

Yore Oyster is run by Jordan Bishop, who holds a finance degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, worked as an analyst and consultant at KPMG in Toronto, and has written hundreds of personal finance articles for Forbes, with work also appearing in Entrepreneur, Bankrate and others.

How we work

We check benefit figures against canada.ca and provincial sources, update guides when the numbers change, and tell you plainly when we earn money from a link. Read our editorial policy and how we make money.

Contact

Editorial questions and corrections: [email protected]. Partnerships and advertising: [email protected]. Everything else: [email protected].