One customer at a coffee shop in Sudbury was taken aback when she learned this lesson this week after, per the CBC, a staff member very closely examined an older bill she used to pay for her drink before eventually refusing to take it. While the old currency type is still legal tender, the staff member was clearly unfamiliar with the bill given its age and theirs. "It is up to the seller to determine the method of payment accepted for transactions. No law requires anyone to accept bank notes or any other form of payment to settle a commercial transaction," a representative from the Bank of Canada confirmed to blogTO on Tuesday. You can always take older bills to a bank or send them to the Bank 0f Canada to have them swapped for new ones.

Source: CBC News October 18, 2022 21:43 UTC