The dollar, every dollar, use the $ for the symbol.
That is also by convention. Sorry for the upper charge, but Aussie,kiwis, Canadian and American all share the $.
With the internet and global commerce it should be standard practice that every website list the 3 letter currency code at every checkout or ideally beside the listed items and at checkout.
$ is used in a lot of other places too, like Australia or New Zealand or Hong Kong or Singapore, and while online shopping is occasionally annoying, I don't know if we need to change the symbol.
It would require a huge amount of work to convert over to solve an incredibly minor inconvenience.
Good rule of thumb "If a website doesn't list what currency it's in, and it's located in America, it's in American"
The $ is an international sign for a monetary unit of a dollar. That is,like saying can we change the . to a 🛑 because non English languages also use a . to indicate the end of a sentence.
Well, at the risk of being booed off the stage... I kinda feel like capital letters are a waste of space and imo we could reform English spelling and at the same time eliminate them. In which case, fullstops would become essential to know where a sentence ends.
But I didn't create a post suggesting that because getting people to change a dollar sign is hard enough!
There's no need to change the symbol. We already use "CAD" to specify Canadian dollars in situations where clarification is needed.
If we did agree on a new symbol for CAD, the next 10ish years would be filled with tons of "the fuck does *that* symbol mean?!"
Maybe he should be a good person in this life and not depend on sky daddy to make him a better person. Hedging your bets on after death redemption after a lifetime of being a shit is a very shit thing to do.
Im pretty sure australians and a few others also use $ its not a north american thing and there's already CAD and USD to differentiate canadian to american and that C one is a cents symbol
I was looking for this but somehow it's not part of the Unicode character sets, nor is there a vertical line diacritic (accent) mark so I couldn't even construct it.
From loonies to mallards. Sigh. You know someone's gonna look up "what's a female mallard look like?" and then lobby for that \[if it's any different\].
I have thought about this but there would be zero advantage to Canada, the US or Mexico. Instead we could have an Amero which could be pegged to the USD and can be exchanged at the government levels for next to no fees. This would eliminate millions in exchange fees alone.
One advantage would be that we no longer have to constantly adjust to fluctuating values of the USD-CAD exchange. We would have a fixed exchange rate to the USD.
Volatility of the CAD-USD exchange is a factor in declining living standards in Canada.
If we want to have any Canadian manufacturing, and innovation, we need to address this.
Commodity price buffering is another thing unto itself.
Maybe! The Euro has certainly been interesting. When Greece overspent, it was forced to make a lot of deep cuts. It couldn't devalue its currency because it used the shared Euro. Otherwise theoretically it could just have cut the value of the Drachma to attract more tourism and increase exports.
Many countries use $. If you feel the need to differentiate, use CAD as a prefix.
It's such a pain, and no one does use it. Recently I donated $15 which actually ended up being $15 USD!
The dollar, every dollar, use the $ for the symbol. That is also by convention. Sorry for the upper charge, but Aussie,kiwis, Canadian and American all share the $.
Despite everyone here I’m with you. It should be Ł for loonies. Not sure about French form though.
You should know who and what you're donating to better than that.
With the internet and global commerce it should be standard practice that every website list the 3 letter currency code at every checkout or ideally beside the listed items and at checkout.
This works too!
$ is used in a lot of other places too, like Australia or New Zealand or Hong Kong or Singapore, and while online shopping is occasionally annoying, I don't know if we need to change the symbol.
$ is the symbol for every currency called the dollar and every currency called the peso. No need to change it
Twelve countries use dollars as the name of their currency. I think we are fine.
It would require a huge amount of work to convert over to solve an incredibly minor inconvenience. Good rule of thumb "If a website doesn't list what currency it's in, and it's located in America, it's in American"
Pretty much why r/USdefaultism exists lol
The $ is an international sign for a monetary unit of a dollar. That is,like saying can we change the . to a 🛑 because non English languages also use a . to indicate the end of a sentence.
Well, at the risk of being booed off the stage... I kinda feel like capital letters are a waste of space and imo we could reform English spelling and at the same time eliminate them. In which case, fullstops would become essential to know where a sentence ends. But I didn't create a post suggesting that because getting people to change a dollar sign is hard enough!
The dollar is used by many countries. Even Newfoundland used the Newfoundland dollar when we were a country.
Given its value, we should use ¢
*rim shot*
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Bloody Americentrism!
no
There's no need to change the symbol. We already use "CAD" to specify Canadian dollars in situations where clarification is needed. If we did agree on a new symbol for CAD, the next 10ish years would be filled with tons of "the fuck does *that* symbol mean?!"
Canadians are smart!
No
I think a little beaver symbol would be better
That'll be 🦫300 please. *I like it!*
🫎400 🍁500
Nah, just get the damn royals off our money
Booo! God save the king (and hopefully God will make him a better person too)
Maybe he should be a good person in this life and not depend on sky daddy to make him a better person. Hedging your bets on after death redemption after a lifetime of being a shit is a very shit thing to do.
I’m talking about making him good in this life.
No.
I don't think so. Our dollar has been worth roughly 75 cents to them my whole life. Pretty easy to compare and convert in our heads
The beaver 🦫
Is there a symbol for tax & debt?
It’s an emoji of whoever is the current PM looking greedy (so just their standard photo then)
How bout Americans switch theirs to « A̷ » or « A̶ « eh?
You’d literally have to nuke them before they’d agree to that. But the A̷ could be a good symbol for a hypothetical Amero.
Im pretty sure australians and a few others also use $ its not a north american thing and there's already CAD and USD to differentiate canadian to american and that C one is a cents symbol
No i think we should change the murikkkan symbol to something else. A bomb or a barrel of oil.
We should change it to the letter C with a vertical line through it.
Like the symbol for cent?
Buying power is about the same,might as well lean into it
I was looking for this but somehow it's not part of the Unicode character sets, nor is there a vertical line diacritic (accent) mark so I couldn't even construct it.
🦆100 Cumbersome to draw but this is obviously the best/only solution
From loonies to mallards. Sigh. You know someone's gonna look up "what's a female mallard look like?" and then lobby for that \[if it's any different\].
I was limited to what emojies existed
This one 🦆 is trans. It was assigned male at birth but identifies as a woman. Problem solved!
We should switch to a common North American currency.
I have thought about this but there would be zero advantage to Canada, the US or Mexico. Instead we could have an Amero which could be pegged to the USD and can be exchanged at the government levels for next to no fees. This would eliminate millions in exchange fees alone.
One advantage would be that we no longer have to constantly adjust to fluctuating values of the USD-CAD exchange. We would have a fixed exchange rate to the USD. Volatility of the CAD-USD exchange is a factor in declining living standards in Canada. If we want to have any Canadian manufacturing, and innovation, we need to address this. Commodity price buffering is another thing unto itself.
Maybe! The Euro has certainly been interesting. When Greece overspent, it was forced to make a lot of deep cuts. It couldn't devalue its currency because it used the shared Euro. Otherwise theoretically it could just have cut the value of the Drachma to attract more tourism and increase exports.
Normally in USD, the $ is before the price and the CAD is after with a space. Like $300 is 300 USD and 300 $ is 300 CAD.