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HAMILTON — The Montreal Alouettes like their tunes, with loudspeakers blaring during practice. On Friday, Tim Hortons Field reverberated to the likes of the Notorious B.I.G.

OTTAWA — A former RCMP intelligence official's story of why he leaked secret information is replete with flaws and should not be believed, a Crown prosecutor told jurors Friday.

OTTAWA — It’s not often players are all smiles after a good, hard practice but for members of the PWHL Ottawa team there was no better feeling than hitting the ice at TD Place.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is dissolving a group created nearly two years ago to tackle a backlog of surgeries and diagnostic tests caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

MONTREAL — A Montreal billionaire who allegedly paid dozens of minors for sex may try to hide his assets in case he loses a class-action lawsuit, a lawyer for the alleged victims told a Montreal court Friday.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Fridayon the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (20,175.77, up 122.70 points): Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Finance. Up 40 cents, or 1.55 per cent, to $26.29 on 15.

FREDERICTON — Ripples from the installation of a giant statue of a sandpiper in a New Brunswick village keep coming, this time landing a councillor in hot water.

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc.

TORONTO — Strength in energy stocks helped lead the way higher for Canada's main stock index Friday, while markets in the U.S. were muted. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 122.70 points at 20,175.77.

SAN FRANCISCO — Canada and China need to keep in touch, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he told Xi Jinping during a chance encounter this week at the annual economic summit of Pacific Rim leaders that wrapped up Friday in northern California.