It’s Friday!  Let’s do our end of the week news round up and open-topic discussion.  Here are a few stories I’ve noticed lately: - Americans now saving more than Canadians - First time buyers can handle rates up to 4% - Province headline still says Van prices up 16% - Housing recovery expected to be tepid - Recession about to hit BC businesses? - US Jobless rate hits 26 year high - Manhattan home prices plunge - California runs out of money - Air Canada union threatens olympic

I’ve been out of the country for a week, download news feeds, and two stories grab my attention:Air Canada allows pets on board its flights.Air Canada boots a man off a flight; a man the Supreme Court of Canada freed from prison, arrested by CSIS on suspicion of terrorism with absolutely no evidence to back up that charge.Very strange country, this Canada.

GG appoints Deane Cameron, Carroll Baker as OC Members Air Canada workers target Olympics for strike Dauphin CountryFest a box-office winner Al Green fills Jazz Winnipeg’s Centennial Concert Hall Booker T. opens for Bachman Cummings in the ‘Peg DOA makes Canada’s most influential music acts’ Top 10 Judge throws the book at Usernet in RIAA lawsuit Jammie Thomas’ lawyer says an appeal

Air Canada’s largest unionised employee group rejected a tentative 21-month pension funding moratorium and contract extension requested by their cash-strapped…

FP Trading Desk submits: Air Canada (AIDIF.PK) may be headed for bankruptcy courts, but Jazz Air Income Fund (JAARF.PK) won’t miss a beat and will continue to crank out steady distributions according to analysts at Genuity Capital.

Canada’s The Globe and the Mail reports Air Canada planned to unveil in Vancouver next week its last 777, which sports a special Vancouver 2010 Olympic decal. But plane spotters at Paine Field where Boeing manufactures the jet captured the aircraft with the special decal and posted it on the internet

‘The bad boys from Boston’ and the ones you never see without sunglasses and beards will be in Toronto! You got it! Aerosmith and ZZ Top will be at the Air Canada Centre on September 3, 2009. Can you believe it? American rock band Aerosmith and American Rock Trio band will be here in Canada! Are you ready

In case you haven’t heard the news, Montreal-based SkySurf Canada has won a license for inflight Internet and is looking to partner with Air Canada and other airlines. Is Wi-Fi something you want in the friendly skies?

I tried to request credit for two flights I made recently on Air Canada. It’s difficult to find the right place on the Aeroplan website. But eventually I did

I tried to request credit for two flights I made recently on Air Canada. It’s difficult to find the right place on the Aeroplan website.