Topic: Loonie pwnage of Greenback for a while more....

[ghost]

According to this article showing strong dominance of the Canadian dollar against the US dollar. Also some insights on economies of both countries.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aVgb1aMzQSQY&refer=canada

[mar1990]

From the article?
"Canada's currency, nicknamed the loonie after the image of the national bird on the one-dollar coin"

I didn't know the loon was the national bird.

Does that mean the beaver is the national rodent,
the moose and squirrel, and the polar bear are the national mammals?

[AVToller]

I noticed that as well. 

[Cord]

A quick google of "canada national bird" reveals a number of references to the Common Loon as Canada's national bird. I didn't check on the beaver or moose.

[mar1990]

I followed several links (one to Environment Canada and the other to Hinterland's who's who), and neither mention it as Canada's National Bird.

However Some private sites did. 

No mention of the canada goose?

[Snowman]

Thank you Paul Martin for keeping our books in order so we can ride this wave high.

[tpl]

Thank you Paul Martin for keeping our books in order so we can ride this wave high.

Now there's a point snow/sand/golf man. How Come  Buzz Hargrove is not lambasting the last Liberal government for creating the conditions that brought the Cdn$ to parity and causing all these jobs to disappear ? Huh?  If it had not been for Paul Martin in his role as Finance minister we'd be at 50c by now not 99.9c

[Snowman]

Thank you Paul Martin for keeping our books in order so we can ride this wave high.

Now there's a point snow/sand/golf man. How Come  Buzz Hargrove is not lambasting the last Liberal government for creating the conditions that brought the Cdn$ to parity and causing all these jobs to disappear ? Huh?  If it had not been for Paul Martin in his role as Finance minister we'd be at 50c by now not 99.9c

Big picture and over the long run a high dollar is healthy. Relying on the low dollar to be competitive is a crutch for poor productivity. The Canadian dollar has only gone up slightly on the global scene; the American dollar is the one going down the toilet.

[safristi]

it's purely our FAT resource base that is attracting overseas monies and keeping out markets and monies high....all the Pols and Bankers take credit when things are swell and blame "extenuating circumstances" when the economy dips....business as usual..
 seems Ol Greenspan is tooting his horn in his new book.........they sat by and watched the Housing boondoggle develop..cos it suited their purpose..... ..jobs..increasing "wealth" in  ridiculous housing increases and re-mortgaging to spend spend  and send the economy to a state of BLISS!!!!..now the Piper wants to be PAID....

[BJB]

what the heck is pwnage??

[jcon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwnage

Internet slang...

[dorin]

what the heck is pwnage??

Ha ha!  Pwn3d!

[The Fuzz]

what the heck is pwnage??

Dumb. 

[BJB]

what a terrible word, the english language doesn't need shpit like that

[AVToller]

what a terrible word, the english language doesn't need shpit like that

 

[Wolfe]

Big picture and over the long run a high dollar is healthy. Relying on the low dollar to be competitive is a crutch for poor productivity. The Canadian dollar has only gone up slightly on the global scene; the American dollar is the one going down the toilet.

IIRC when he was Industry minister years ago John Manley said exactly that and was blasted from all sides. He was right, but that didn't help him much at the time.

[ghost]

what a terrible word, the english language doesn't need shpit like that

adapt or die dino-sour!!!! 

[CSH]

Thank you Paul Martin for keeping our books in order so we can ride this wave high.

Now there's a point snow/sand/golf man. How Come  Buzz Hargrove is not lambasting the last Liberal government for creating the conditions that brought the Cdn$ to parity and causing all these jobs to disappear ? Huh?  If it had not been for Paul Martin in his role as Finance minister we'd be at 50c by now not 99.9c

Big picture and over the long run a high dollar is healthy. Relying on the low dollar to be competitive is a crutch for poor productivity. The Canadian dollar has only gone up slightly on the global scene; the American dollar is the one going down the toilet.

Keeping C$  artifically lower would be like subsuidizing the average US consumer. We should not do this.

[jcon]

Keeping C$  artifically lower would be like subsuidizing the average US consumer. We should not do this.

And spur unnecessary inflation here!

[safristi]

,,aren't Spurs anathema to Man U.....and Bridge too !!!???