The Mix

EDMONTON — An Alberta distillery behind four-litre vodka jugs that stirred controversy this week says it was unfairly targeted on social media and wants an apology from the cabinet minister who said the product was not responsibly priced.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on federal lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday by the Biden administration.

MIRABEL, Que. — Airbus Canada says it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing employees at the company's assembly facility in Mirabel, Que.

ROME (AP) — Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli , known for a flamboyant, glamorous style and textile innovations, has died at age 83, his company announced Friday.

Inclement weather and "sluggish" consumer spending delivered a double whammy to MTY Food Group Inc. in its first quarter, pushing the fast-food chain owner's profits down from a year ago.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (21,899.99, down 210.12 points): TC Energy Corp. (TSX:TRP). Energy. Down 54 cents, or 1.07 per cent, to $49.73 on 11.1 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index lost almost one per cent on Friday as the market saw broad-based weakness, while U.S. markets also fell. The downward slide comes as investors have had to swallow a bitter pill this week, with U.S.

NEW YORK (AP) — Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” over five days last winter. The songs came quickly and chronologically, as if she was writing “different scenes in a movie.

“The Talk” is ending its long-running daytime conversation. The CBS talk show will end in December after 15 seasons, the network announced Friday.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted a famous dissident rock band, designating the band and its three members as extremist and sentencing them to two years of correctional labor.