WHO needs the penny? NO ONE!

[rcsoundn1]

ahhhhhh,,,,, so would every thing get rounded up?

[Ray Smoodiver]

An item that was $3.94 would get rounded to 3.90 - You'd pay $4 and get 10c change.

An item that was $3.96 would get rounded to $4.

If you paid for it with plastic, the price would be whatever the sticker said.

[Jaxx_]

New Zealand hasn't had anything smaller than a 10c coin since 2006. Hasn't really seen us descend into madness. Also, our noted money is different colours to note different denomination, madness!

Don't even get me started on the fact that all of our bills are the same size and color. It's so stupid.

It's really sad to be honest. Just goes to show how little purchasing power the CAD and USD has these days in comparison to 20 years ago

Soon we'll be tossing out the nickels and dimes too.

sad really....oh well

inflation and depreciation is a fact of life. Isn't is sad that your e30 isn't worth what it once was?

ahhhhhh,,,,, so would every thing get rounded up?

As I understand it, just rounded to the nearest 5 cents.

An item that was $3.94 would get rounded to 3.90 - You'd pay $4 and get 10c change.

An item that was $3.96 would get rounded to $4.

If you paid for it with plastic, the price would be whatever the sticker said.

We have 5 cents here too. I know some of you European countries aren't used to any bronze colored coins (1 and 5). So 3.94 would be 3.95 and 3.96 would be 3.95.

[Vedubin01]

It costs more to make a penny than a penny is worth.

I agree. Pennies are out dated. Also, why can't we include tax in the price of the items? In Europe, everything was even prices, and you paid what was displayed on the shelf. It was nice.

Its still like that in a state or two.. Alaska being 1 of them

[einhander]

Einhander doesn't roll with pennies, bitch.

[e30austin]

Einhander doesn't roll with pennies, bitch.

Word. Fuck that shit, dawg.

[Smelser]

New Zealand hasn't had anything smaller than a 10c coin since 2006. Hasn't really seen us descend into madness. Also, our noted money is different colours to note different denomination, madness!

same as canada.

differant colours for differant amounts, plus our new money has brail on it in the corner for the blind, and its also plastic, wont rip or tear, but it will melt.

[Smelser]

.01 and .02 get rounded to .00
.03 and .04 get rounded to .05
.06 and .07 get rounded to .05
.08 and .09 get rounded to .10

[Eric]

It cost too much to ship pennies over to the military bases overseas so the only pennies in circulation are ones that members bring with them. They do the round up/down thing and it was quite nice.

The euro is also better with the color coded/size system. each amount got larger than the lesser one, and each bill was a different color. The yellow 200€ were badass.

The included VAT was nice as well.

[Raxe]

Hard to believe it's almost been a year already. I don't miss the little buggers one bit. As someone who routinely allows small piles of change to build up on my counter/desk/coffee table, it's nice having half as much coinage sitting around.

[einhander]

It cost too much to ship pennies over to the military bases overseas so the only pennies in circulation are ones that members bring with them. They do the round up/down thing and it was quite nice.

AAFES made a killing on the pogs.

[matthugie]

It's all about the benjamins.

[Smelser]

benjamins?? whos this benji dude???

dont ya mean the Bordens!!

Sir Robert Borden and if your cheaper, William Lyon Mackenzie

[Smelser]

As Prime Minister of Canada during the First World War, he transformed his government to a wartime administration, passing the War Measures Act in 1914. Borden committed Canada to provide half a million soldiers for the war effort. However, volunteers had quickly dried up when Canadians realized there would be no quick end to the war. Borden's determination to meet that huge commitment led to the Military Service Act and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, which split the country on linguistic lines. In 1917 Borden recruited members of the Liberals (with the notable exception of leader Wilfrid Laurier) to create a Unionist government. The 1917 election saw the "Government" candidates (including a number of Liberal-Unionists) crush the Opposition "Laurier Liberals" in English Canada resulting in a large parliamentary majority for Borden.


Sir Robert Borden (right) at the official opening of No. 6 Canadian General Hospital, Joinville-le-Pont, France, July 1918
Sir Robert Borden pledged himself during the campaign to equal suffrage for women. With his return to power, he introduced a bill in 1918 for extending the franchise to women. This passed without division.
The war effort also enabled Canada to assert itself as an independent power. Borden wanted to create a single Canadian army, rather than have Canadian soldiers split up and assigned to British divisions as had happened during the Boer War. Sam Hughes, the Minister of Militia, generally ensured that Canadians were well-trained and prepared to fight in their own divisions, although with mixed results such as the Ross Rifle. Arthur Currie provided sensible leadership for the Canadian divisions in Europe, although they were still under overall British command. Nevertheless Canadian troops proved themselves to be among the best in the world, fighting at the Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, and especially at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
During Borden's first term as prime minister, the National Research Council of Canada was established in 1916.
Borden and the Treaty of Versailles[edit]
In world affairs, Borden played a crucial role[according to whom?] in transforming the British Empire into a partnership of equal states, the Commonwealth of Nations, a term that was first discussed at an Imperial Conference in London during the war. Borden also introduced the first Canadian income tax, which at the time was meant to be temporary, but was never repealed.
Convinced that Canada had become a nation on the battlefields of Europe, Borden demanded that it have a separate seat at the Paris Peace Conference. This was initially opposed not only by Britain but also by the United States, who perceived such a delegation as an extra British vote. Borden responded by pointing out that since Canada had lost a far larger proportion of its men compared to the U.S. in the war (although not more in absolute numbers), Canada at least had the right to the representation of a "minor" power. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George eventually relented, and convinced the reluctant Americans to accept the presence of separate Canadian, Indian, Australian, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South African delegations. Despite this, Borden boycotted the opening ceremony, protesting at the precedence given to the prime minister of the much smaller Newfoundland over him.[5]
Not only did Borden's persistence allow him to represent Canada in Paris as a nation, it also ensured that each of the dominions could sign the Treaty of Versailles in its own right, and receive a separate membership in the League of Nations. During the conference Borden tried to act as an intermediary between the United States and other members of the British Empire delegation, particularly Australia and New Zealand over the issue of Mandates.[6] Borden also discussed with Lloyd George, the possibility of Canada taking over the administration of Belize and the West Indies, but no agreement was reached.
At Borden's insistence, the treaty was ratified by the Canadian Parliament. Borden was the last prime minister to be knighted after the House of Commons indicated its desire for the discontinuation of the granting of any future titles to Canadians in 1919 with the adoption of the Nickle Resolution

[mrsleeve]

^

Our currency is recognized around the world as the standard around which much business is conducted and all oil is traded in, not to mention is the unofficial worlds default currency so really for most of the world it really is all about the Benjamen's not your weird obscure PM from a 100 years ago that no one out side of eskimo land would have a chance in hell of knowing about.

Besides I thought all you guys up there bartered with Molson and Maple Syurp based trade system. And that your govt only mints money for when you guys cross the boarder to empty out cost-co's and and other big box stores close to the boarder to save paying all those free Heath care taxes.