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TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,009.60, up 89.96 points): Bitfarms Ltd. (TSX:BITF). Finance. Up 29 cents, or 8.56 per cent, to $3.68 on 6.6 million shares.

SURREY, B.C. — Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government will establish mandatory minimum prison sentences for anyone convicted of extortion.

While Canadian sports broadcasting powerbrokers have worked together on occasion in the past, it's unlikely they'd follow the path of their counterparts in the United States and team up again in the near future, sports media analysts said.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index posted a modest gain Friday, while U.S. markets were mixed but the S&P 500 surpassed 5,000 points for the first time. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 89.96 points at 21,009.60.

DOHA, Qatar — Canada's artistic swimming team qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics after a seventh-place finish in the free competition Friday at the world aquatics championships.

TORONTO — Public high school teachers and elementary teachers will get additional retroactive salary increases to compensate them for constrained wages under a law known as Bill 124.

MONTREAL — The head of Canada's largest trucking firm says rampant undercutting of labour laws is harming companies like his as well as drivers, a problem felt all the more acutely in lean economic times.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — A Toronto woman pleaded guilty Friday in an Inuit identity fraud case as charges against her twin daughters were dropped.

VANCOUVER — Health Minister Adrian Dix says the number of family doctors in British Columbia is increasing, but there are still almost 900,000 people without a primary care provider.

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. — Former Quebec Major Junior Hockey League player Noah Corson has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16 in 2016.