2024 Wally Awards: Crisis of the Year (Canadian)

Rather than do a lengthy yearend review of stuff you already know and will read about elsewhere, we've decided to just hand out the coveted Wallies, without further ado. Today we announce the Wally (with maple leaf cluster) for the Crisis of the Year (Canadian). 

As we write, the Canadian dollar, aka "Beaverbuck" of "Northern Peso", is quoted at $0.69378 in real money. It fell below the 70-cent psychological barrier shortly after President Trump suggested Canada should become the 51st of the United States of America, with Blackie McBlackface as Governor. M Trudeau is reported to have called the Donald to express his concern.

[Hey, if you want complicated new creative on a Sunday, you'll have to pay me time-and-a-half. Hal.]

You must be joking. Ed. would have done it. We'll go with this one, even though it's a quarter-century old... and Hal... you're fired!