Penny
The ghost penny that just won’t die
We don’t pay with pennies or get them back in change. Why have them at all?
So long, penny. Why don’t you take the nickel and the dime with you, too?
Useless change goes beyond the one-cent coin
The penny receives a short stay of execution
Jim Flaherty announces that the Royal Canadian Mint will stop circulating the penny on February 4, 2013. This year’s budget originally forecast that distribution would cease this fall.
It was Pat Martin’s idea
The signature promise of Jim Flaherty’s latest budget was proposed four years ago by the NDP’s Pat Martin.
Could the penny die?
Nick Kohler discusses the penny’s history of hanging on against the odds
Majority of Canadians want penny gone
New poll finds barely a third support keeping it around
Cast off these copper irons
Mike Moffatt explains why we’re better off without the penny and why eliminating it won’t cause the nation to descend into fractional chaos.
Senate finance committee wants to kill penny
Finance committee recommends removing the coin
