Five Dolla Holla!

C-A-N-A-D-A – Have you ever seen a magnetic hill?
C-A-N-A-D-A – Or a lady on a dollar bill?
C-A-N-A-D-A – Betcha never seen the autumn fall.
In Canada, we get to see them all. – Stompin Tom Connors

We can now add a pick-up game of pond hockey to the list of unconventional things you’ll find on Canadian currency (A lady? What are you – nuts?). I returned to the homeland this past weekend for the first time in a while, and noticed this lovely tableau on the latest finskis:

In between frantic visits to the Tim Horton’s in Gananoque, and the poutine producing chipwagons of Portland, I got to flash a little of the local lucre. Since I can’t exactly picture lacrosse on the fiver, and it’s a vast improvement over the old version, I thought I’d point it out to the GoonSquad. But apparently some folks don’t like the new design, especially since it’s much harder to turn Sir Wilfred Laurier into Spock. I wish I were kidding. Regardless, it still buys a whackload of TimBits.