[zook]

That's funny because didn't Canadian coins always used to stick to magnets? That's why they wouldn't work in a lot of vending machines.

[1rudeboy]

Something about the machines being an order of magnitude lower on the low-tech scale. They were ultimately replaced.

[Cheburashka]

That's funny because didn't Canadian coins always used to stick to magnets? That's why they wouldn't work in a lot of vending machines.
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Vending machine owners care about things like selling a $.50 candy bar for $.35. Do that often enough and you're out of business.

Government bureaucrats are barely able to grasp the concept of inhaling and exhaling. So when it came time to put out the bids for the automatic coin machines, no doubt the bid specifications didn't mention anything about magnets. So the vendor saw a hole and ran his furniture van through it. Made the low bid and got the contract. And the Tollway Authority was stuck with their own stupidity. First time in the history of bureaucracy that ever happened.