The Canadian Markets started the first full trading week of 2009 in a festive mode with buyers continuing to step up to the plate during Monday’s session. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 0.56%, while the TSX Gold Index got hammered to the tune of 7.3% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 3.28% with the advancing issuers beating out the decliners by a 515 to 264 margin on volume of 159 million shares traded.