- There is a list of all the airlines with little or no YQ for rewards. Find flights on those airlines (LX, TK, UA..)

- Use what you learned in geography class and/or a map to find possible routes... what are the Star Alliance gateway cities between YUL and Italy (ORD, YYZ, FRA, WAW, ZRH, IST ..) and find flights from YUL to those places on AE. Intra Europe flights are generally quite easy to get, so you concentrate on the transatlantic hop.

- there are numerous posts on how to find reward flights using sites other than Aeroplan (UA, NH, award nexus..)

- UA members do not pay YQ on rewards, therefore their website never includes YQ. The fact that they charge only $85 for the reward is irrelevant, unless you are using UA miles to redeem that flight. If you fly LH using AE pts, you pay YQ.