We don’t pay with pennies or get them back in change. Why have them at all?
Useless change goes beyond the one-cent coin
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.
The signature promise of Jim Flaherty’s latest budget was proposed four years ago by the NDP’s Pat Martin.
Nick Kohler discusses the penny’s history of hanging on against the odds
New poll finds barely a third support keeping it around
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.
Finance committee recommends removing the coin