So, basically, Rob & I could not have chosen a worse time to move home. The Canadian dollar reached a 37-year high today. This means that all our hard earned wee pounds, which we had to leave tucked safe and sound into our bank in England, are going to have to stay over there for the foreseable future. Not great when you have a house purchase looming, and a certain someone is still unemployed (note to self: lady of leisure lunches to stop until dollar crumbles... which might happen sometime in the next decade or so).
Lofty loonie
HEATHER SCOFFIELD
Globe and Mail Update
October 29, 2007 at 1:00 PM EDT
OTTAWA — The Canadian dollar has reached its highest level since it began to float freely in 1970.
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