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FUCK THE CANADIAN DOLLAR

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fouldsys
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why is it so shitty right now? its really frustrating me. does anyone know if its forecasted to go up in the near future? other wise im going to have to hold my american purchases for a while...
Oct 23 2008 11:32PM
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BMskier
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im not from canada but all i know is that its better than the US in every way right now
Oct 23 2008 11:33PM
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Bob_Gnarley
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I hope it keeps going down, so when I buy a lift ticket in Canada for $80 CAD it will be around $50 USD
Oct 23 2008 11:34PM
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skier_boy26
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well, thats what you canadians get for being so arrogant when your shit went up [/sarcasm]

at least that means good things for us in the states! might mean a couple trips to whistler and other places this winter. thats pretty sweet
Oct 23 2008 11:38PM
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sweso2
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Back that statement up..... I'd like to know why you think that. I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong (in some aspects) but it seems that you've jumped on the proverbial NS hate without a cause bandwagon.

To the thread creator, It's good for me. I can go to whistler on the cheap now. It does suck though that you have to hold off buying gear.
Oct 23 2008 11:43PM
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TerminatorX
Posts: 3087 - Karma: 169
holly shit. how did this happen so fast? a couple months ago, they were equal. as of today, a canadian dollar is only worth 80 cents in the us.
Oct 23 2008 11:54PM
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crazyfuck
Posts: 5968 - Karma: -7
with the exception of the dollar. check out xe.com...

$1 USD = $1.25 CAD right about now
Oct 23 2008 11:59PM
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JakeC
Posts: 2160 - Karma: 101
^^^ thats right
Oct 24 2008 12:05AM
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Swampy
Posts: 546 - Karma: 53
The reason why the canadian dollar is so low is because they have so much invested in natural resources.
Oct 24 2008 12:05AM
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BoatsandHoes
Posts: 190 - Karma: 14
no, its because everyone is selling their stocks and choosing to cash it in what they think is the strongest dollar right now, even though its not, but since every cashes out in USD in just pumps it more, i learnt that in socials class today
Oct 24 2008 12:11AM
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birdshake
Posts: 1228 - Karma: 71
whats even more fucked is that ontario is in a 500 million dollar deficit its gonna fuck over everything here now while bc is cutting taxes! WHAT THE FUCK its the damn liberals over spending when the market was good

and I gotta agree with the thread creator I was planning on having some big US purchases but this just ruins it.. apparently its gonna stay like this for awhile
Oct 24 2008 12:16AM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
wow it was equal over the summer.


Sick, now when people sell stuff we can go back to saying jokes like...

"Anthems for sale. $200 US or $550 canadian!"

I loved those days.
Oct 24 2008 2:33AM
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COskier
Posts: 1066 - Karma: 131
Hahahah 500 million. Complain when you make the hundreds of billions catagory.
Oct 24 2008 2:37AM
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crazyfuck
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word. $500 million isn't anything. we in the US, on the other hand, are fucked.
Oct 24 2008 2:40AM
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freezed
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i like it, my whistler season pass is only 350 USD
Oct 24 2008 3:08AM
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eheath
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Wow its been changing so fast, peep this graph i found online.

Click for larger image

Not sure if that worked here:
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/1y?usdcad=x
Oct 24 2008 3:16AM
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ISkiSwitch
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good deal. it gives me a reason to go to canada more often this winter.
Oct 24 2008 8:50AM
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t_rob
Posts: 6433 - Karma: 11,458
this makes me want to go to an office party.
Oct 24 2008 8:54AM
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rockymountainmilitia
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Actually buddy, other way around. Our dollar being at 80-85 cents is healthy. Canadians are going to spend their money at home instead of outside the country and more people with visit canada spending their out of country dollars here helping us out as well. More Americans companies will now start to purchase goods from Canada since its cheaper to buy here then in the states.

What the us can forecast: less canadian visits, less canadians buying american homes and helping bail your banks out, less canadian dollars being spent to buy goods being sold in the USA. Just a little more of that downward spiral.
Oct 24 2008 9:00AM
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eastside
Posts: 1744 - Karma: 167
Bullshit. Everything you just said is wrong, but I have to go to class (economy) right now. I will explain later.
Oct 24 2008 10:11AM
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BeerGoggles
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Should have bought US dollars when we were at par.... This will teach me.
Oct 24 2008 10:20AM
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soup
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so happy I got everything I needed from the states before this inevitably happened. 
Oct 24 2008 11:57AM
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MLB
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 298
low dollar is great for the canadian economy. Tourism, exports, etc.
Oct 24 2008 1:16PM
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birdshake
Posts: 1228 - Karma: 71
yeah but thats $500 million for one province not the whole country.

and for canada thats a lot of money
Oct 24 2008 4:13PM
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rockymountainmilitia
Posts: 2706 - Karma: 12
cool buddy, it thought you were gonna expain this to me? your probably learning alot in your economy class and really want to talk about.
Nov 1 2008 12:54PM
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*DrewT*
Posts: 7768 - Karma: 480

It kinda sucks for us Canadians, I have stuff I wanna buy from the states but the price just went up like 25%.

That being said it's not really a bad thing for our economy cause we've had some troubles exporting lately because of our high dollar and poor efficiency due to our lack of child labour and our excess of human rights

Nov 1 2008 12:58PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
yea man im so pissed about it. There are a few purchase's thqat i really want to and have been meaning to make but i cant because even though they  are on sale for some fucking sick price. once you convert it to camadian the price doesnt seem so good anymore.
Nov 1 2008 1:20PM
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NW_Rider
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forecasted 3.2 billion dollar deficit for the state of Washington until shits changed.
Nov 1 2008 1:29PM
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k-rob
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glad i bought my shit before this happened haha. i'm pretty sure it's a combination of the fact that everyone is selling their stocks because they're all idiots, and the fact that our entire country runs on natural resources. but oil and gas are still up so i'm not losing any money unless i start buying from the states.
Nov 1 2008 1:48PM
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pianoman
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love your icon
Nov 1 2008 2:28PM
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Canuker
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same, i LOL everytime i see it.
Nov 1 2008 3:14PM
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Skiingslikewhoa
Posts: 426 - Karma: 12
It's helping the economy like that one guy said we spend are money here and so do americans.
Nov 1 2008 3:15PM
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Download-My-Apps
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NO ITS NOT

People stop sayin that
Nov 1 2008 3:49PM
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