Opinion: Across Canada, the nickel is no longer the parking meter’s coin du jour. Vancouver is slowly phasing out coined parking meters for pay by credit card pay stations. Toronto already has.
, even acknowledging that there are virtually no goods or services that can be purchased for five cents, or several multiples thereof.
Even in its infancy, the coin was not user-friendly. At the turn of the 20th century, the smallest and most inconvenient coin to manage was the. Eventually, it was made larger, and its original silver composition changed to nickel — hence the name. The name stuck but over time the use of nickel in minting the 5-cent piece has decreased as cost-saving measures and coining technology has evolved.less than 0.
But sadly, my wish to see the coin find its well-earned rest and peace has put me in the minority. A June 2022 pole by. found 2-in-5 Canadians would not mind if the nickel were taken out of circulation — 49 per cent oppose saying goodbye. There’s nothing left to do. I will take my lot of nickels all nicely counted out and hope that they will find favour, as I try to exchange them for a polymer $20 bill at a financial institution or present my many rolls of legal tenure to a store cashier to pay for a bottle of bubbly to toast the steadfast nickel — apparently here to stay.
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