As reported in Tuesday's Montreal Gazette, more Canadians plan to buy homes in the next 2 years.  The strength of the Canadian housing market relative to worldwide markets has increased confidence in real estate. 
 
 

That's right, Canada

The following article, published online last Saturday, and to be published in the February 16, 2009 of Newsweek  is an excellent review of the state of the Canada and the Canadian banking system - Newsweek - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (by editor Fareed Zakaria).

AltaPacific's blog post on this article is found here

 
 

View today's blog post for full details -

Home prices to fall by 8% this year

Western Canada hit hardest by decline