Contests and Giveaways

New Purex with Zout stain-fighting pre-treater claims to remove laundry villains like grass, chocolate and tomato sauce on the first try (god, I wish it said "olive oil," because that's the one I tend to dump all over my new purchases). For a limited time, Canadians can try it out for free.

You should receive your free sample within six weeks.

Click here to get yours.

What better way to celebrate that wonderful TGIF feeling than by getting yourself and a friend a chocolate bar?

(Okay, maybe by getting yourself and a friend a beer. But the thing is, I don't have a beer coupon for you. I'm very sorry, please don't hold it against me.)

Here is a buy one, get one free coupon for Mint Aero chocolate bars at Mac's.

The coupon is good until April 25, 2011.

It's that time of year again.

Yep, you guessed it -- tax season is officially here.

The deadline for filing taxes this year is April 30th and if you're like us and still haven't gotten your financial affairs in order yet, you may be in luck.

H&R Block Canada wants to give a few lucky WalletPop Canada readers a free version of their H&R Block at Home software so you can do your taxes at home and on your own time this year.

Canadians are wild for Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim promotion...until they go on a 24-cup losing streak and are left only with a lot of empties, broken dreams and a bad case of the jitters.

Competitor Country Style is stepping in with a consolation prize this week. Between March 21 and 27, if you bring in a losing competitor's cup, you'll get a free 10oz coffee.

Click here to find a Country Style near you.

Suffer from shopping guilt? That's normal when you're trying to save. However, today's deal should leave you feeling warm and fuzzy about your expenditure on two fronts.

1. This coupon entitles you to a nice 30% off at Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Banana Republic Factory Outlet and Gap Outlet stores.

2. It also ensures that 5% of what you spend is donated to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

The coupon is valid only in-store from March 17-20 and can be used as many times as you like during that time period.

by Tom Barlow
A poker player sits hunched over his computer, frantically trying to read the behavior of his opponents, looking for all-too-human habits and weaknesses that will give him the edge in betting. Unfortunately, the opponent he's trying to read could well not be human. Welcome to the world of poker robots, commonly known as poker bots.

Even since the supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and Watson won Jeopardy, the ability of a robot to dominate a human in a game has been increasingly obvious. Now, poker "bots" are for sale over the Internet. They allow anyone with a PC and the ability to follow directions to set up a bot to play one of the panoply of on-line poker sites such as PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker.

As the Harry Potter movies enter into their final chapter, true fanatics had best get their hands on whatever swag they can!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes out on DVD on April 15. To celebrate, Blockbuster is giving away free Harry-themed iPhone 4 skins if you pre-order the Blu-ray combo pack ($29.99) and free collectible mini-posters if you pre-order the DVD.

Click here for more details and to see the countdown to the release.

WalletPop Canada and Virgin Mobile are giving away a Blackberry Torch, and all you have to do is go to our Facebook page before March 25 and fill in the form.

Running on OS6 – Blackberry's most powerful operating system – this Blackberry Torch smartphone from Virgin Mobile Canada will keep you connected to both your work and personal life, so you never miss a thing! With a high-res touchscreen, full QWERTY slider keyboard, 5 MP flash camera and video, and high-resolution 360×480 pixel color display, plus the best apps around, the Torch is incredibly powerful and easy to use. And for travellers, it's HSPA-ready with access to global roaming in more than 200 countries. Plus, with Virgin Mobile you get access to Members benefits like discounts at the hottest stores, exclusive movie screenings and concert tickets before anyone else. Learn more about what it means to be a member at www.virginmobile.ca/lounge.

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Buying 6-49 tickets has become too tiring for some. Scratch-and-win tickets require too much activity for your wrists, and you have to clean the coin afterwards, too. Again, too much work.

Into the breach march online contests. They haven't taken over completely. Not yet. There are several reasons for it. The major one: quite a few people would consider playing but, alas, they think they haven't got a chance.

Of course, they might be right, and it's funny those same people have no problem buying Lotto-MAX tickets, even though their chances of winning with those are about the same as are their chances in most online contests.

If the burning log channel at Christmas was too vegetarian for you, you've got to fire up this baby on your widescreen: Swiss Chalet's new rotisserie chicken channel, which was just launched today.

Yes, you read that right: sizzling chickens spinning away on your screen all day. The only thing left to you is the scent (perhaps Swiss Chalet should launch some companion chicken candles).

The channel is available to all Rogers Television subscribers. You can also view it online at www.swisschalet.com/channel.

The deal component is this: while the chickens spin, coupon codes will occasionally flash up on the screen. To take advantage, proceed to Swiss Chalet's Facebook page for further instructions.