Damn. That didn’t take long. I was hoping it would last out the Christmas season at least. 
Oh well. I knew it wouldn’t last forever. It was fun while it lasted – at least I bought a few things while it was flying high.
I’m happy to say that I managed to purchase a whack of camera gear (online order from B&H) at very close to the peak. Feeling just a tad smug about it, actually.
Oh well, back to 66 cents we go! 
$1.01552 CDN today.
Kind of feels like Charlie Gordon realizing that his journey was coming to an end.
It was a fun rid wile it lasted.
1.013.
Looks like I’ll have to save up that extra hundred dollars for the software anyways. sigh
Domtar’s Dryden mill is re-opening.
On the rise again, currently at 1.028, though that could change by end of business. Hard to say where this is going but it looks like the peak has passed.
Just had a call from a friend who returned from a multi-day power-shopping trip to the USA earlier this week. Looks like she timed it just right.
With the end of the “irrational exuberance”, the Canadian dollar has now returned to its normal value of less than a dollar of real money. (A characteristically cogent editorial cartoon in The Onion documented the danger to civilization this anomaly had posed). So, while it is possible that “the North shall rise again”, my prediction is that the Canadian currency will continue to spiral downward to reach its natural level, with the day not far off when one will be able to exchange, one-for-one, shiny U.S. quarters for Loonies, all-the-while being thanked for one’s generosity. And our salt mines will be staffed by energetic Canadian workers.
1 US = 1.01 Canadian. Sigh.
Looks like time to kick up the whispering campaign a notch.
“Hey, everyone! The US trade and budget deficit is still there! It hasn’t gone away! They’re too dependent on oil and spending too much on overseas military adventures while their infrastructure crumbles! Misplaced priorities! Misplaced priorities!”
Well, it was fun while it lasted. I indulged what I could (only just) afford and came out ahead, so I’m happy with that. It’d be nice though if the Loonie settled higher than it used to be – say, around $0.85 to $0.90 US. I wouldn’t complain too much about that.