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TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan was at it again on Friday.

REGINA — A lawyer representing the family of a Regina woman who died after plunging 10 storeys down a hotel laundry chute says the investigation into her death was botched and race played a factor.

MONTREAL — A public uproar over a hefty increase in compensation to senior executives at Bombardier prompted the company's chairman to ask his board of directors late Friday to scale back his pay to 2015 levels.

TORONTO — A Canadian man who tried to organize an aid shipment to relatives stranded in a conflict-ridden area of Libya says he recently found out most of his family members had died during his fruitless efforts to send them food and water.

EDMONTON — The daughter of one of two men stabbed to death in a grocery warehouse confronted her father's killer Friday before he was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's auditor general says political partisanship appears to have crept into taxpayer-funded government advertising, prompting her call Friday for tougher monitoring guidelines.

TORONTO — Police are investigating after a 53-year-old man was found dead on a driveway in Toronto early Friday. Toronto police say they received a call for a shooting in the city's west end after the caller heard a bang and saw a man on the ground.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has sent its strongest signals yet that Canada does not plan to bow to U.S. pressure to dramatically increase what it spends on defence. U.S.

TORONTO — Better-than-expected economic data lifted the loonie Friday while North American markets slipped into the red after a day of mostly listless trading. The Canadian dollar gained 0.19 of a U.S. cent to 75.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is taking aim at a core assumption of Donald Trump's upcoming review of American trading partners — she said Friday the U.S. has a trade surplus with Canada, not the other way around.