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Bank of Canada unveils $20 bill with King Charles replacing Queen Elizabeth II

The new currency marks the first time King Charles appears on Canadian paper money, following a directive from the Trudeau government

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What this story says

  • The Bank of Canada will unveil a new $20 bill today featuring King Charles, the first Canadian paper currency to include his image.
  • The design replaces Queen Elizabeth II, who appeared on previous versions of the bill.
  • The change was directed by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
  • No right-rated outlet in the sample below carried the story.

Who covered it

Left 53%(32)Centre 30%(18)Right 17%(10)

Percentages are shares of the 60 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 30 of the 90 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

55/100

Hype

15/100

90 sources · methodology

The Bank of Canada is scheduled to unveil a redesigned $20 bill on 3 September 2026. The new design will feature King Charles, marking the first time his image appears on Canadian paper currency. The bill replaces the previous version, which carried the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

The decision to include King Charles was made under the direction of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government. The Bank of Canada has not disclosed the cost of the redesign or the timeline for the bill’s circulation.

What the coverage left out

None of the 22 digests below mention the cost of the redesign or the timeline for the bill’s circulation. No right-rated outlet in the sample carried the story at all.

Tags:#CanadianCurrency#KingCharles#BankOfCanada#MonetaryPolicy#RoyalPortrait

Coverage settled. We checked this 109 times and stopped on 8 Sept 2026, 18:15. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

32 rated outlets

  • All 14 left-rated digests below carried the same core facts: the Bank of Canada’s unveiling of the new $20 bill, the replacement of Queen Elizabeth II’s image with King Charles’s, and the directive from Trudeau’s government. None of the digests led on a distinct angle or included additional context beyond these points.

Centre

18 rated outlets

  • The seven centre-rated digests also reported the Bank of Canada’s unveiling of the new $20 bill, the replacement of Queen Elizabeth II’s image, and the Trudeau government’s directive. Five of the seven digests included the government’s role, while two omitted it. No centre-rated digest added further details or a distinct framing.

Right

10 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the right coverage of this story. The right-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Bank of Canada unveils $20 bill with King Charles replacing Queen…?
Of the 60 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 53% are rated left, 30% are rated centre, 17% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 90. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Bank of Canada unveils $20 bill with King Charles replacing Queen… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 60 rated outlets on this story, 53% are rated left, 30% are rated centre, 17% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Bank of Canada unveils $20 bill with King Charles replacing Queen… biased?
Bank of Canada unveils $20 bill with King Charles replacing Queen Elizabeth II is one event reported by 90 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which outlets covered Bank of Canada unveils $20 bill with King Charles replacing Queen…?
90 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why is King Charles appearing on the new $20 bill?
The Bank of Canada is unveiling a redesigned $20 bill featuring King Charles, replacing Queen Elizabeth II. The change was directed by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government, marking the first Canadian paper currency to include the new monarch.
When will the new $20 bill be available?
The Bank of Canada is set to unveil the new $20 bill on 3 September 2026. None of the reports below specify when the bill will enter circulation or how long the transition will take.
Which outlets reported on the new $20 bill?
The story was carried by 14 left-rated outlets and 7 centre-rated outlets, all in digest form. No right-rated outlet in the sample published the story.

Read it at the source

90 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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32
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18
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Right

10
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