{"id":793055,"date":"2026-07-10T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793055\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:42:19","slug":"fifa-soccer-and-the-canadian-1-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793055\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA soccer and the Canadian $1 coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 FIFA World Cup of Soccer ends on July 19th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Question:\u00a0 have you come across a new LOONIE in your change?\u00a0 The Royal Canadian Mint announced that a new coin is in circulation \u2013 that celebrates the FIFA World Cup coming to Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a red, white and orange loonie.\u00a0 It features the FIFA maple leaf, and engravings of the World Cup emblem.\u00a0 It also has the names of the Canadian host cities:\u00a0 Toronto and Vancouver.\u00a0 KING CHARLES 3rd is on the front side.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So\u2026keep an eye out for it.\u00a0 The new $1 commemorative coin is out there.\u00a0 You can find it in your change as banks and businesses across Canada replenish their inventories of $1 coins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fifaloonie.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-469824\" style=\"width:241px;height:auto\"  \/>Pic courtesy of Mint.ca<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AND, let me know if you find one \u2013 because, so far \u2013 I haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTell Me Something Good\u201d is powered by Dutchak Scrap Metal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dutchakscrap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dutchak-1024x490.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465061\" style=\"width:565px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Danny-Sq-scaled.jpg\"  class=\"multiple_authors_guest_author_avatar avatar\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"\/>                                                                                                                                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>Danny Foresta was born and raised in Thunder Bay. He&#8217;s worked in radio for over 30 years. Has spent the last 20 years in Morning Radio. Joined Acadia Broadcasting in 2021.\u00a0 He hosts &#8220;Mornings In The Bay&#8221; on 99.9 The Bay.<br \/>He enjoys all aspects of the radio industry. Danny is married to Lori, and has a son, Joseph in University.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/yourthunderbay.ca\/author\/forestad\/\" title=\"View all posts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                                                            View all posts<br \/>\n                                                                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                <a class=\"ppma-author-user_email-profile-data ppma-author-field-meta ppma-author-field-type-email\" aria-label=\"Email\" href=\"https:\/\/yourthunderbay.ca\/fifa-soccer-and-the-canadian-1-coin\/mailto:forestad@radioabl.ca\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 FIFA World Cup of Soccer ends on July 19th.\u00a0\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 have you come across a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-793055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}