If you own a Visa card, before you head out on your next shopping trip, or book your next vacation, check the visaperks.ca website. There are some great savings to be had with coupon vouchers for in-store use and coupon codes for online shopping. Some good deal examples we found include; $50 off each nights stay at participating Fairmont hotels, Canadian Family 1 year subscription for only $10 (70% savings), $10 off $50 at Gap stores, and buy one, get one FREE waffle cones at Baskin Robins. Definitely worth a quick search of their site for these savings!

Home Depot in Canada has great one day deals on this long weekend. Some that stood out to us include; Saturday only - bonded leather club chair $99 (reg. $199), propane patio heater $99 and Sunday only - Vigoro Fall Turf fertilizer $7.49 (reg. $14.99), 49¢ per square foot of 12x12 Sanibel ceramic tile. For complete list of savings check here.

Superstore and Extra Foods have pretty low prices to begin with on toys, household goods and clothing and on September 4th & 5th the deals get better with their TAX FREE days (from open until closing). This would be a great time to grab any household electronics you've been eying up!

On now, until September 30th, join the irewards program at Chapters / Indigo and use this 20% off your entire purchase coupon (in-store). If you're an avid reader the irewards card seems like a decent deal, you get it for $25 and immediately begin saving 40% off all bestsellers, 10% off all other books and 5% off your online purchases. For a limited time, they will also give you a coupon booklet worth $25 when you purchase or renew your card. Have you joined this program? Leave a comment below and let us know if you've found it to be a worthwhile savings. Thanks Nancy for forwarding this deal to us!

September 3rd - 9th, you can buy one, get one FREE on towels by: Lauren, Greenwich, Nautica, J-Class, Distinctly Home, Supima and Fieldcrest Luxury at The Bay as well as buy one, get one FREE on all pillows by Glucksteinhome and Distinctly Home. They also have an additional 40% off all clearance-priced pillows, duvets, mattress pads, bedding, towels and more. Check your local flyer for details.

Proctor & Gamble has released new Brandsaver coupons and there are some great value ones for $1 - $5 off select products. You can find and order them online at the P&G Brandsaver site.

Check your local paper this weekend, August 28th, 2010 for the latest SmartSource magazine coupons. There are some good ones this weekend, including; Purex laundry detergent buy one, get one FREE, $3 off GoodNites Underwear diapers, Dasani Natural Essence Buy one, get one FREE, as well as $2 off Huggies diapers. Every little penny helps and these are great value coupons.

Canadian-based online retailer Raspberry Kids has a great back-to-school promotion on right now, use code: savvymom15 at the checkout. Raspberry Kids is "the purveyor of fresh, healthy and fun products for the little ones in your life." One of our favourite products right now is their lunchskins, so cute and great for back-to-school! Sale runs till the end of September, 2010.

Vistaprint has a 50% off deal on photo gifts right now. Some of the ones that caught our interest were the photo tote bags starting at $9.49, as well as the photo t-shirts starting at $7.00. Nothing like a photo tote to make a big hit with the Grandma's at the next birthday!

This is a great FREE shipping and no tax (on almost everything, until August 30th, 2010) deal from the Cymax online stores. They carry everything in their online stores, including baby cribs, strollers, car seats and all other baby gear as well as office furniture, exercise bikes and home decor items. The offer is good for Canadian shipping. They're also having a huge back-to-school and end of summer clearance on now so there might be some great deals (made even better with FREE shipping!).