The Mix

British Columbia says it will be providing $2.5 million in funding that will allow about 75 poultry farms in the Fraser Valley to upgrade their barns to reduce the risk of avian flu.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index edged lower to cap off Friday's trading session, weighed down by losses in technology stocks, while U.S. markets were mixed amid a high-profile international meeting.

Summer heat, outdoor fun ... and cold and flu symptoms ? The three may not go together in many people's minds: partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have lower activity levels in the summer.

Students launched a rocket early Friday morning from a remote site in northern Quebec, the culmination of a project seven years in the making.

VERCHÈRES — Authorities began unloading thousands of tonnes of sugar from a cargo vessel run aground in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal on Friday in an attempt to free the ship. The Federal Yamaska became stuck near Verchères, Que.

TORONTO — The potential shutdown of Canada's largest airline because of a labour dispute has business groups warning of the damage it will do to an already fragile economy.

OTTAWA — Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other countries to agree to a cap on plastic production because such a measure likely would not be adopted.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged back from their records, led by drops for technology companies, but Wall Street still closed out another winning week. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% Friday, slipping below the record it set a day earlier.

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — In Wagner's home theater, a twist has been added to the classic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Playboy plans to relocate its global headquarters from Los Angeles to Miami Beach and open a Playboy club there.