By Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press, October 26, 2016
The Mint makes money on every nickel it produces, which wasn’t the case for the penny
An internal federal analysis shows the government has studied the pros and cons of the nickel — but Ottawa insists it has no plans to force the five-cent coin into retirement, as it did the penny.
When the Royal Canadian Mint yanked the penny from circulation in 2013, the nickel became the country’s smallest circulating denomination of pocket change.
