25 Years of Loonies

Yesterday was the 25th birthday of the Canadian $1 coin. There is a lovely story on the opening of Q about how it became affectionately known as the loonie. 

The full episode of Q is here: http://www.cbc.ca/q/episodes/ Look for episode May 8, 2012

Here is just the story of the Loonie:

Since I could not find how to upload just audio, I added a pic of the original Loonie to the audio.


My favourite line:
"A coin that went from nerdy un-cool to, somewhat nerdy un-cool cool."