Country's cash goes plastic, Canada rolls out new, high-tech $100 bill. Paying with plastic takes on a new meaning today as the Bank of Canada rolls out new $100 bills to replace the cotton-paper blend note. The $100 is Canada's first polymer bank note and features a wealth of anti-counterfeiting features such as partially-hidden numbers. The bill also includes a large, transparent window, transparent text, a metallic portrait, raised ink and a frosted maple leaf window. The $100s feature two portraits of prime minister Robert Borden and an image of a researcher at a microscope and a depiction of DNA. The $50 polymer note will follow next March. The rest of the plastic money will be in circulation by the end of 2013. A focus group took a close look at the $100 bill earlier this year and saw several offbeat images the designers didn't count on. Some in the group mistook a strand of DNA on the $100 bill for a sex toy. Most people also thought the see-through window on the new...