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TORONTO — Strength in the base metal and technology sectors helped Canada's main stock index gain almost 100 points on Friday, while U.S. stock markets climbed to their best week of the year.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took shots at the NDP on Friday for equivocating on the consumer carbon price, accusing Jagmeet Singh of caving to political pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose closer to their records and closed out their best week of the year as hopes built for a big rate cut next week. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% Friday to climb within 0.7% of its all-time high reached in July.

Bill Majcher was a member of the Richmond Non-Partisan Association while working as an RCMP undercover operator.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain, rose 0.4 per cent to $82.7 billion in July.

The Union of BC Municipalities says local property taxpayers are being asked to pick up the bills for services that are the provincial government's responsibility.

FREDERICTON — Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seekers more equitably across the country.

British Columbia's provincial carbon tax has been in place since 2008, when it became the first jurisdiction in North America to put a price on carbon emissions, but Premier David Eby said the carbon tax issue has since been "politicized."