Here is this week’s Giant Tiger Flyer: March 28 – April 8th
http://www.forum.smartcanucks.ca/showthread.php?t=7900

Next Thursday, March 15th, plan on stopping by your local Starbucks between 10am and 12 noon. During that time, Starbucks will be holding is 2nd annual Coffee Break. All company-operated and licensed Starbucks stores in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Greater China will be giving away free Tall (12-ounce) cups of coffee to anyone who drops by. Starbucks Coffee Masters clad in black aprons will be present during each of the coffee breaks to kick off the company’s spring brewing sale and to answer any questions you might have about the coffee or coffee brewing. Last year, many stores used the coffee break period to sample some of their pastries out to customers waiting in line, as well.

You may need to get your own mug

Click here to find your nearest Starbucks

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Number portability starts today 🙂

For far too long Canadians have had their mobile numbers held captive by phone companies. Now you have the right to take your mobile number with you anywhere you want! Now that your number is good to go we want to make sure that everyone makes the most of their new-found freedom.

This means that you can switch to any cell phone provider in Canada and take along your number 🙂

Expect loads of crazy deals and offers from carriers to try stealing customers from each other.

Virgin started the competition today with this awesome deal only for new customers that switch their phone numbers over. Switchover and buy any of Virgin’s cellphones from their website or another retailer and activate it today (March 14) by giving them a call, and they will give you a credit for the cellphone’s price.

More details on this Virgin Mobile Canada one day promo here

Costco Canada East

Costco Canada West

Get a free President’s Choice Decadent chocolate chip cookie  350g with the purchase of $25 worth of groceries

Expires March 16, 2007

Get the “300” movie poster for free on your next visit to a Best Buy Canada store near you. No purchase necessary and while quantities last.

More details on this free 300 poster here

Jim Squires (JimmyCanuck) has a fabulous weekly “McDonald’s Mondays” post at fjetsam. He has kindly given me permission to post these McDonald’s Mondays here at SmartCanucks. Thanks Jim 🙂

All McDonald’s Mondays commentary and videos are by Jim Squires. You can read more of his wonderful posts at fjetsam.

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What better way to kick off McDonald’s Mondays than with a little clip from behind the counter? This is definitive early Late Show from way back when Dave was a brand new face in the CBS roster. Someone got the bright idea to put Letterman right there in the drive thru window, and hilarity ensues.

I love Dave, but for those of you who didn’t grow up watching him back in the day, this is an example of when Dave was great. And on a more McDonald’s related note, weren’t those pastel uniforms just the worst??

These iPod Shuffle clones almost resemble the original ones. The 1GB iPod shuffle clone costs $19 USD including shipping. The 2GB iPod shuffle clone costs $30. If you can’t afford the original iPods or you’re looking for something cheap for the gym or what not this may be for you. Don’t expect this clone to be as durable or of the same quality as the original iPods. You get what you pay for but in the case of the original iPods you pay a huge sum of money just for the “iPod” name.

iPod shuffle black 1GB clone

iPod shuffle red 1GB clone

iPod shuffle black 2GB clone

Safeway’s “We Care Coupon Book” is out and it has loads of awesome savings. The book costsc $3 but the coupons more than cover the price. You can also get it for free if you spend more than $30 at Safeway. Get one as soon as possible before they run out.

All groecry item’s in this week’s food basics flyer are on sale for $1

Prices in effect from March 10 to March 16, 2007

Pizza Pops (Sat and Sun only)
475ml Equality Salad Dressing
340G McCain Cream Pies
Fresh Chicken Thighs or Drumsticks ($1/lb)
Hunt’s Barbecue Sauce
10lb White Potatoes
Hunt’s Snack Pack Pudding
450G Schneiders Red Hots Wieners
Equality Soda Crackers
Quaker Kife Multigrains
Quaker Bran Squares
Quaker Oat Squares
Hershey’s Reeses 2 for $1
Oh Henry 2 for $1
Almond 2 for $1
Skir 2 for $1
Renuzit Air Freshner
500ml Dairyland Milk 2 Go
191-269g Banquest Dinners
200g Schomberg Farms Ricotta
355ml McCain Punch or Iced Tea
454G Master Choice Canola Margarine
175G Astro Yoghurt 2 for $1
10 Pack Equality Waffles
1kg Equality Hash Browns
475ml Equality Salad Dressing
500ml Hunt’s Barbecue sauce
475ml Master Choice mayonnaise or whipped dressing
1L Aylmer Ketchup
750ml Equality Sweet Green Relish
398ml Sardo olives
500ml French’s Yellow Mustard
163 – 170g equality potato crisps
150g Master choice kettle cooked poato chips
150g munchies snack mix
3’s master choice microwave popcorn
24’s Kiski kids freezies
Green seedless grapes or red globe grapes
Royal Gala apples
454g Dole classic or cole slaw salad
Zucchini squash
227g spinach
Each seedless cucumber
Roma tomoatoes
Tangerine mandoras
Large red or black plums
125ml realemon or realime 2 for $1
400g planters peanuts
Pork picnic shoulder
4’s master choice centre cut lion chops
Pink Salmon
80g Silani cheese slices
Coleslaw Potato Salad
6’s English muffins or crumpets
6’s Glazed Donuts
Sliced black forest ham
100G San Daniele Mortadella

Click here to read the Food Basics flyer

Navel oranges 10 lb box $4.99
Broccoli $.69
Black diamond cheese bars 520g $4.44
Parlour ice cream $1.97
Compiments apples $1.95
Maple leaf corned beef brisket $2.97
Whole eye of the round $2.47 per lb
Astro yogourt $3.97
Schneiders meat pies $1.97
Lucky charms/reese puffs $3.97
Doritos 280g $197
Ragu old world style pasta sauce $.97
Lipton sidekicks $.97
Maple leaf wax/deli style bologns $.67 100g
Red or black plums $.99 lb
Compliments garden salad $.99 1 lb bag

matrix82 posted on the forum about Dollarama selling $1 pregnancy testers!

I was in dollarama and they had pregnancy tests for $1…I am not so sure if I would necessarily take the advice of a $1 one…I am betting it might be pretty inaccurate but they had tons of them…and has to be the strangest thing I have ever seen there, as of yet. What are your thoughts?

Read the full thread here

$1 test kits sound fishy. I had a look around and found that in May 2005 health Canada sent out an advisory, advising consumers not to use New Choice pregnancy test:

Health Canada is advising consumers not to use New Choice pregnancy test because this product is not licensed for sale in Canada.

The product is used for the early detection of pregnancy by testing for the presence of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a urine sample.

The product, manufactured by IND Diagnostic Inc. of Delta, British Columbia and distributed by Sales Enterprises Inc. of Rockville, Maryland, has been available in Dollarama stores in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

Read full Health Canada advisory here

Click here for more details on this Rona promo

Thanks nanuk and bargainbaby for posting this deal on the forum 🙂

12-16 March, Empire Theatres will be offering selected movies for $2 at selected Empire Theatres to celebrate the upcoming March break for students.

More details on this Empire Theatres Offer here