New $10 bill featuring Viola Desmond goes into circulation next week

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A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond's portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S.

 

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The founder of our nation has been removed from our currency and replaced by an irrelevant and unknown civil rights activist. Well done Canada, this is a new low.

ViolaDesmond

Good show Canada! Unlike here in America where if you're a person of color and do something notable you get a lawnmower engine or a box of rice named after you.

I'm not hating, but to be honest, the woman on the currency bill doesn't look black.

Too bad it's only worth about $2.00 in US currency. 😂

Good News. Besides Did you know the word News is an acronym for North East West South

Then again I also believe an important figure in the First Nations history in Canada (for example Louis Riel) should be on one of our Canadian Bills.

To be Canadian and seeing a person that looks like me (I’m also biracial black & white) on a 10$ is amazing 😍😍🇨🇦🇨🇦 OhCanada

She was just being a woman. But. Good for her!

This is fantastic!! 🇨🇦 ViolaDesmond NovaScotia

Canada 🇨🇦👌🏾

Great!!

Take note America!

the new money of Wakanda

Every time I see this bill I’ll remember the lack of black history taught in schools. The lack of history learned about the contributions of POC in this country!!

😊

Whatever

Who?

And people care why?

Who?

I will definitely get me at least one next month. Toronto for Christmas! All I want is a new Ten Dollar Bill and some snow! ☃🌨🎆🛐

Incredible!

Ohh Canada🇨🇦 its the first to do the sensible thing 😁👍🇨🇦

I'm going to have to go to the bank to get one. I'm excited.

Didn't she move to the states I'm not surprised Panic24 is loving this b.s. Why didn't more people speak out against racial segregation in Canada? Oh ya cause we weren't the ones doing slavery and most of em were happy to have the schools we gave them..

I want one! That is awesome. We need people who have changed the country or the world on our bills.

That’s awesome!

So how many bills are changing?

Still can't get minimum wage...

Who is she?

Still much work to do.

I don't think people care who is on the bills. It's the amount. Lol

Creepy evil lookin nun. Think i saw her in a movie or was it japanese vid gam

🙌

Who cares its Canada

Yep we come in all shades..

Who? What about Gretzky?

About time. I have been waiting for this for a long time.

What a beauty‼️💕

I need this yesterday & I'm not even Canadian. We'd have heroic legendary American Harriet Tubman on our twenties in the U S, but sadly, Putin has installed a racist clown who's destroying our democracy- said clown only thinks beauty pageant contestants should be on our currency

I never knew who she was. She is like a candian Rosa Parks.

This took way too long to happen.

Ooh great movement.

Salty people mad they replacing an old white guy or mad they don't know who this is. Google is your friend

This is really nice special credit to Wanda the sister of Viola Desmond she fought hard to keep the memory of her sister alive.

For a second I thought Alexander Hamilton was getting bumped but then I realized it was for politically correct Canada 😂🚮

I can’t wait to save all these that I get and have $1000 in tens.

She opposed freedom of association for White people. She didn't want White people to have anything of our own. She think that Black people have a right to association with White people who don't want to associate with them.

Jealous American right here. Our money is not nearly as colorful, easily destroyable (good luck having a US dollar bill survive a rip and crumble let alone a wash cycle) and we are still very far from featuring any minorities. Well done Canada! 🇨🇦 NotFair

A black woman is on the 10$ bill. Racism is ended in Canada. Thanks Justin.

But this orange demon is delaying our Tubmans. Canada is out here being a global leader.

I need one of these how can I get one ?

Yo i live in the US wtf do i care about this? Pls get this sit regional only

WOOT WOOT CANADA WSUP CANADUUUUUUH!!!

JustinTrudeau keep JAM on the $10. Put her on the $20 and ditch the Queen.

People out here saying who care and so on. Like really? It might mean nothing to you but a black woman that stood up against inequality and injustice back in the days when racism was publicly okay. I think she deserves some respect ✊🏾

Justin Trudeau should be the next person on our money. The guy has done one hell of a job as pm!

What kind of FALSE sense of justice or equality have we here, Canada?! With much due respect to Ms. Desmond, this does good for whom? And how?!

This is our lovely PM virtue signalling again. The only reason she’s on our $ is because she’s black. Period. She was not a civil rights activist ! She was thrown out of a theatre. Happily paid her fine and returned to her successful business. She did nothing.

No D'Arcy McGee, No Terry Fox, No Tommy Douglas, No Norman Bethune, No Nellie McClung but someone who literally sat in a theatre got some attention and did nothing else...

Who cares?

So nice

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I loved her on the Jeffersons'

Check out the lazy trailer park trash crying in the comments. Typical lazy Canadians.

That is crazy People still use cash

good, tired of these ugly yt’s on my $

Very excited

Never heard of her. This is s bit of a reach in Canadian history. Stop trying to make something out of nothing.

Who?

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