Burnbrae Farms (the makers of Egg Creations) are promising a giveaway of 650 coupons tomorrow evening to celebrate a year on facebook.  You can also enter their contest to win a $50 prize pack.  It is not clear if this is first come first served or a contest for the coupons.

Click here to visit their facebook page

Giveaway link

This promotion is actually a chance to win these mitts (and bigger prizes) but many members are saying that they won today.  There is a limited number available so try for yours soon.

Thanks sdddmd for a UPC: 058496812324

Enter here for your chance to win

Hello fellow SmartCanucks readers! Rideau Centre has an amazing contest for you!  Two lucky readers will win a $100 gift card each to spend at any store at the Rideau Centre.  It’s easy to enter.  Simply make a post in the comments section on our blog page naming an item you’d love, and the Rideau Centre store where you would find it.

Two winners will randomly be chosen from all of the responses on the blog.  One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be removed.  Only valid for Ottawa/Gatineau Canadian residents.  The contest closes on Sunday December 23^rd at 8pm EST.

Once again we have another giveaway for our Smartcanucks readers! Enter to win Tequila Funride, a 3 song CD from one of Toronto’s hottest bands, Hi Heels Lo Fi.

To enter, all you have to do is post the name of the Canadian city that you live in, here on the comments sections of the blog.  Canadian residents 18+ only. The contest closes on December 28th at 8pm EST. 

They will probably be coming to your city soon! In the meantime, there is an amazing show tonight in Toronto that you do not want to miss!

Just in case it really is the last night on earth, please join High Heels Lo Fi and friends in celebration of their first full length album “Apéritif for Dysfunction“.

Cabaret at The End of The World
Thursday, December 20th, 9pm, $5
Rancho Relaxo, 300 College Street    Toronto Ontario

Hosted by the slightly sinister Brendan Bane, featuring:
Burlesque! GoGo Dancers!
Performance by Wesley of Well Rounded Hoops!
World’s greatest lounge-punk band CONFLICTING PLAID
Toronto’s (hopefully only) hilarious drunkrock band HIGH HEELS LO FI

Watch http://www.facebook.com/l/nAQFZLoZKAQHLlg_DW2E1gd6xysoNOlGWu7UfqccAcPd-RQ/www.highheelslofi.com for details.

PLEASE NOTE: Song lyrics are not appropriate for children.

Although this is not technically a “deal”, my love for chocolate obliges me to post this Purdys contest here;) Purdys has a Christmas Giveaway contest going on for the next 12 days.  The Giveaway submission involves going to Purdys Facebook page, liking it and filling out a form.

This Purdys Giveaway started on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 10:00am PST and will end December 12, 2012 at 9:00pm PST.

Click here to like Purdys and enter the contest

To promote Cheermaggedon – Black Friday in Canada – we want to give one lucky person $150 gift card to help them get started with their holiday shopping.
Entering is easy!
Choose your 2 favorite Cheermageddon items and post them in the comments section below – any item on sale during Cheermageddon.
ONE winner will be randomly chosen from all the responses on the blog. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be removed.
Good luck!
Open to Canadian residents only, including Quebec. Contest closes on November 25th at midnight EST.
The Old Navy sale is on from November 23 – 24 where there will be more sales than you can wrap your heads around. So be sure to head on out to Old Navy to get your Holiday wardrobe and Christmas gifts at a great price! Remember, on Saturday the 24th, Old Navy has even more sales in store for you, including doorbusters for early shoppers and timed deals throughout the day. Check out all the deals here.

I have been recently doing a bit of research on the laws behind contests in Canada.  After pages of “legalise”, I came across a question and answer section designed for Joe Public.  In layman’s terms, it outlined the difference between an adequate and inadequate skill test.  According to the Competition Bureau of Canada:

The following have been found to be adequate skill tests:

• estimating the time it would take a barrel to travel a specified distance down a river
• estimating attendances at a fair and the future temperatures of cities
• estimating the number of beans in a jar
• estimating the number of votes to be cast in an upcoming election
• a four-step mathematical question

Okay, those seem reasonable.  Now for the absolutely hilarious inadequate skill tests.

The following are examples of skill tests found (in other words, these may have been required by contestants at one point in time) to be inadequate:

• shooting a turkey at 50 yards
• a potato peeling contest
• memorizing answers given to contestants earlier on
• estimating how many passengers would be carried on a railway at a future date

I’m trying to think of the last time a retailer had a contest winner shoot a turkey at 50 yards to redeem their prize!  Hmmm…perhaps this document needs to be updated.

Click here for more information on contests in Canada.  You will either learn something or it will help you overcome insomnia 😀

Country Style Canada is offering a free tea and tea biscuit on November 7, 2012 from 2PM-6PM.  This deal is available only at participating locations so you may want to call ahead before heading out.  The freebie is designed to bring attention to their “Win A Trip For 2 To London” contest which you can enter by “Liking” Country Style on Facebook.

I have subscribed to a number of store newsletters over the past couple of years to find out great deals in record time.  After all, it is my job to bring you the latest sales, freebies or coupons!  It is not uncommon for me to open my Inbox and find 50 or 60+ emails every morning.  Most of them are junk mail, some are so-so deals, some are fantastic discounts and a large chunk of them are contests.  Yes, it seems if a store doesn’t necessarily want to give you a good deal, they will run a contest instead.  And why not?  It makes them appear generous since a lot of these prizes are fantastic (trips, cars etc.) and they end up saving a ton of money!  It’s a lot cheaper to shell out $5000 in points to one customer than offer a $1 discount to potentially a million people. 

I tend to skip over the contest emails unless the odds are really good.  And when the odds are good it is usually a locally run contest where the prize is minimal at best.  But, hey…a small prize is better than no prize!

What about you?  Do you enter contests?  If so, how often?  Have you won any great prizes from entering contests?  Let us know!

Monopoly is back at McDonalds starting today.  Win instant prizes of free food, gift cards to SpaWish, Walmart or McDonalds, SnapFish digital photos, games and more.  Enter the codes online to be entered for sweepstakes.  See a full list of prizes here.

There will also be free codes for sweepstake entries, according to the rules, these are  “SWEEPSATMCD”, “PLYMONOPOLY”, “MCDFREECODE”, “MONOPOLYFUN”, “GOMCDONALDS”, “PLAYITATMCD”, “GOPLAYATMCD”, “CODEFORPLAY”, “TRYMONOPOLY”, “PLAYFORFREE”.

You can find the FREE Codes by “following” McDonald’s Canada on Twitter where followers will be informed about when and where they can discover and enter these codes. (Note, you can view their twitter feed without a twitter account).

Get game pieces on:  specially marked medium and large McCafé hot cups, medium and large soft drink cups, Big Mac cartons, Egg McMuffin wraps (excluding Sausage McMuffin), Angus Third Pounder cartons, Hash Browns bags, 10/20-piece Chicken McNuggets cartons, and Large Fries cartons.

With fall right around the corner, the Rideau Centre has another amazing contest for SmartCanucks readers!  Two lucky readers will each win a $100 gift card to spend at any store in the Rideau Centre. It’s easy to enter. Simply make a post in the comments section on our blog page naming an item that you’d love and the Rideau Centre store where you would find it.

Two winners will randomly be chosen from all of the responses on the  blog. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be removed. Only valid for Ottawa/Gatineau residents! The contest closes on Sunday September 30th  at 8pm EST.

Click here to browse the Rideau Centre stores!

• Age of majority only
• Canada only no purchase is necessary to enter, odds of winning are dependent on number of entries received.

Buy  a participating pack of Orville Redenbacher’s  popping corn and get a $5 coupon for Hasbro board games (expires July 2013) and enter the PIN from the packaging online for a chance to win$5000 or an instant win prize of

• 1 of 10 $250 Hasbro Game Night prize packs
• 1 of 1,000,100 coupons for a free pack of popcorn

This popcorn is currently on sale for $3 at Walmart.

Thanks for letting us know this offer is back again scbpooh.

For those who entered the contest to receive a free sample from Garnier we blogged about here, many members received an email before the contest was over saying they had won the grand prize.

It was clear by just the number of SmartCanucks members that this was an error, many of us received an email stating we had won one of seven $100 Lululemon gift cards and a full size lotion, which is the week 4 prize.

Last night, Garnier sent these ‘winners’ an email stating:

We understand your disappointment and appreciate your patience. In gratitude for your loyalty to Garnier, a voucher for a FREE full-sized (400 ml ) bottle of our new Garnier Body Intensive 7 days will be sent directly to your home within the next two weeks.

Good for them trying to make it right instead of just saying ooops, sorry.

Boo must be delirious because he seems to think he is a genie and can grant wishes to lucky Smart Canucks’ readers.

All you have to do is reply to this post (once per IP address) before Thursday 13th September at 11:59 p.m. Eastern with the following wishes and someone will win the $10 gift card of their wish.

I wish for a $1 coupon for … (insert product)

I wish I could find …. (insert product) on sale this week

I wish for a $10 gift card to …  (insert store)

His genie powers are obviously limited since he can’t make unicorn coupons appear, but maybe the stores will listen to what we want.  Winner will be chosen using a random number generator on Friday 14th September.  Your correct email must be used when posting in order for us to contact you (name in first box, email in second).  Winners will be given 24 hours to respond or a replacement winner will be chosen.

For more chances to win, more winners will be chosen in our matching forum contest here.

• Age of majority only
• Canada only no purchase is necessary to enter, odds of winning are dependent on number of entries received.
• Potential winner will be required to answer a skill testing question.
• You must use a valid email so I can contact you with details on how to claim your prize. Persons who enter with an alias(fake) email will forfeit their prize and a new winner will be drawn.

This contest has now ended and the winner is Val (post 89)

Garnier are offering 20,000 samples of Body Intensive 7 Days Lotion to Facebook users who enter their contest.  It is a simple quiz about your lotion needs.

Enter at Garnier Canada’s Facebook Page