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Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$

Posted by kdawson on from the who's-loony-now-eh dept.

boxlight writes in to mark the occasion when the Canadian dollar hit parity with the US dollar for the first time in 31 years. The article notes that Canada has run a budget surplus in each of the last 10 years. "This is actually bad for the profits of Canadian corporations that sell their products to the US for US dollars (Canada sells far more to the US that the US sells to Canada); but it means us Canucks will get cheaper Macs as the Canadian prices get closer to US prices with every new release."

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  1. what to do with "Canadian dollar jokes"? by peter303 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Answer: Change them to "American dollar jokes"

    1. Re:what to do with "Canadian dollar jokes"? by Tackhead · · Score: 1, Funny
      > Answer: Change them to "American dollar jokes"

      Hey, didn't you mean "Change them to 'American dollar jokes', eh?", you hoser?

      So, anyways, today will be a day long remembered, eh? It has seen the end of the the US Dollar, it will soon see the end of the Empire, eh?

    2. Re:what to do with "Canadian dollar jokes"? by fm6 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Offtopic: had a friend once who thought that there were penguins in Canada. When I disabused her of that notion, she said, "there go all my Canadian thanksgiving jokes."

    3. Re:what to do with "Canadian dollar jokes"? by thegnu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Btw, when I speak Spanish I use estadounidense to describe a US citizens and americano to describe a resident of the Americas. But when I speak English I use American. I have yet to have any problem with anybody not understanding what I am speaking.

      You could say "US Americans" like Miss Teen North Carolina.

      I always thought it was funny living in a proud country like Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) calling Americans estadounidenses, when it's in THEIR title, too. I much prefer gringo or gabacho, especially since I am so clearly one myself. When I worked with my friends, if an American came in, I'd always (jokingly) say to the person waiting on him, "Chingalo, guey. No hay pedo, es gringo." People always thought that one was great. :-)
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  2. USA Today? by geoffrobinson · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I guess the original article wasn't in USA Today if there wasn't a graph.

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    1. Re:USA Today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      This sort of behavior isn't really unexpected. See here for some cogent analysis on the Canadian problem. I suspect they are undercutting honest American enterprises by manufacturing kilts and other socialist goods ;-)

  3. Yeah but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our economy is strong, and always growing. At least that's what the preznut keeps telling me.

    Three jobs! Uniquely American, isn't it.

  4. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    A lot of people don't have graphs and Iraq such as and.

  5. How strange by ohzero · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was just up there for a conference, and I stayed in the Royal Hotel. I hope this isn't all my fault.

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  6. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a graph with two lines. Now imagine those two lines converging until they meet.

  7. the way things are going... by FudRucker · · Score: 2, Funny

    it wont be long until the US Dollar reaches parity with the Mexican peso...

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  8. Re:Oh dear, by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. all the Slashdotters who were moving to Canada to escape their totalitarian state will be whining about how dear everything is up there now. You did all move to Canada right?

    Apparently, it was just the ones that can do math.

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  9. Re:There goes the "How much is that in Canadian" j by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vending machines have always excepted them ;)

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  10. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by MouseR · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here:

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    (gosh I hate the lameness filter... ruins the fun...)

  11. Re:Screwed economy but cheaper Macs?! by debrain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not at all. To our economist's surprise, the Canadian export economy is... Damn that Canadian economist.
  12. Re:Whose deficit is it, anyway? by pcgc1xn · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US is spending money on defense? Oh yeah, forward defense.

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  13. Obiligatory Simpsons quote... by QRDeNameland · · Score: 4, Funny

    In response to both your post and your sig, this really is obligatory:


    Singer: The trading gap shuffle, we're in a heap of trouble, doing the trading gap shuffle!
    Bart: He already sang this song!
    Marge: No, that was about the budget gap. This is the trading gap.

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  14. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by cooley · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the US? Most of you can't even find Canada on a map ... just ask Miss Carolina. Please, please tell me you didn't just reference a non-existent American state whilst making a crack about how bad Americans are at geography.

    "Carolina" isn't an American state any more than "Columbia" is a Canadian province.
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  15. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 4, Funny
    You can have our loonies when you pry them from our cold dead hands!

    Oh yeah? Yeah? Well you guys don't even have a decent health care sys... OK, well, but you guys don't have a democr... Well, you don't have real bee... Damn. Just never effin' mind, OK.

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  16. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >never mind a beaver on their nickels

    Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about THAT: I'd be willing to bet that many American Slashdotters, at least, would take beaver on legal currency.

  17. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by Daedone · · Score: 1, Funny

    You are coming to a sad realization, cancel or allow?

  18. Re:Article is useless without a graph! by Have+Brain+Will+Rent · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'll trade you Quebec for Alaska and Washington state.

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