Indigenous

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (20,331.54, up 53.03 points): Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE). Energy. Up 31 cents, or 1.42 per cent, to $22.12 on 17.1 million shares.

MONTREAL — A 34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a toddler who was found seriously injured at a home daycare this week northeast of Montreal. Quebec provincial police say the suspect, from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Que.

DOHA, Qatar — Toronto's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson finished fifth at the 2023 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Finals after a 2-0 (21-17, 21-14) quarterfinal loss to Americans Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss on Friday.

TORONTO — Strength in base metal and energy stocks helped Canada's main stock index post modest gains Friday, while U.S. markets also rose.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A director with an Indigenous-led coalition in Newfoundland and Labrador says mounting charges against RCMP officers in the province underscore systemic issues with the force and a need for change.

EDMONTON — Finance Minister Nate Horner — after promising any stand-alone Alberta pension plan would not follow the contentious Quebec model, then saying it might, then saying it won't — told reporters Friday that possibility is back on the table.

WHITE ROCK, B.C. — Mounties in British Columbia say they are investigating a series of extortion threats that police say may be linked.

OTTAWA — The federal government has recovered $40 million of its investment in the now-defunct Quebec-based vaccine developer Medicago as part of a deal with the parent company, the innovation minister announced Thursday.

VANCOUVER — About 188,000 people have received free prescription contraception since British Columbia became the first province to offer it in April.

WINNIPEG — Two options of a new specialty licence plate to raise money for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people are now available to purchase in Manitoba.