The Canadian Markets continued to march off their 2008 bottoms during the first day of trading in 2009. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 2.74%, while the TSX Gold Index was the lone loser falling 2% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 6.23% with the advancing issuers beating out the decliners by a 615 to 135 margin on volume of 144 million shares traded.