Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$

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Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 20, 2007 @04:08AM 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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what to do with "Canadian dollar jokes"? by peter303 · 2007-09-20 04:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Answer: Change them to "American dollar jokes"
1. Re:what to do with "Canadian dollar jokes"? by fm6 · 2007-09-20 04:49 · 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."
USA Today? by geoffrobinson · 2007-09-20 04:11 · 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 · 2007-09-20 04:17 · 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 ;-)
Re:Article is useless without a graph! by BadAnalogyGuy · 2007-09-20 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

A lot of people don't have graphs and Iraq such as and.
Re:Article is useless without a graph! by eln · 2007-09-20 04:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Imagine a graph with two lines. Now imagine those two lines converging until they meet.
Re:There goes the "How much is that in Canadian" j by $RANDOMLUSER · 2007-09-20 04:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Vending machines have always excepted them ;)

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Re:Screwed economy but cheaper Macs?! by debrain · 2007-09-20 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Not at all. To our economist's surprise, the Canadian export economy is... Damn that Canadian economist.
Re:Whose deficit is it, anyway? by pcgc1xn · 2007-09-20 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

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

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Obiligatory Simpsons quote... by QRDeNameland · 2007-09-20 06:52 · 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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Re:Article is useless without a graph! by cooley · 2007-09-20 07:46 · 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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Re:Article is useless without a graph! by frank_adrian314159 · 2007-09-20 09:20 · 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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