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Housing could take a while to thaw

The local real estate board data for January shows that the housing market is still struggling, and we probably can’t blame it all on the weather. Meanwhile, the large fall in the unemployment rate last month could be a sign that the output gap is closing faster than the Bank of Canada would like.

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