With her weekly pick of fun things to do on the weekend, here is the rundown from 'Global News Morning's Kahla Evans.

The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a new coin featuring a portrait of Louis Riel, an important Metis leader and the founder of Manitoba.

The pure silver, rectangular-shaped coins went on sale Tuesday for $129.95 each.

A west Edmonton coin store is celebrating the Canada Day long weekend by trading away coins honouring the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

99-year-old Alphonse Vautour was the first Canadian to be handed the coin on Monday.

Rare, grainy, black-and-white footage taken on June 6, 1944 shows a soldier looking back as Canadian troops arrive on Juno Beach — 75 years later, historians have learned his name.

The Royal Canadian Mint says the new one-dollar coin pays tribute to Parliament's passing of legislation that "initiated the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada."

The Liberal cabinet approved the design of the new toonies, one of which will have multiple colours instead of the usual two-toned coin, to commemorate a key turning point in the Second World War.

The Royal Canadian Mint has crafted an official commemorative silver coin in celebration of the royal nuptials.

The mint says an Ottawa employee was terminated following an internal investigation and administrative review and the RCMP was called in to investigate.