TORONTO - The Toronto Stock Exchange surged ahead Friday, encouraged by gains from the U.S. markets, after data showed the world's largest economy may be in recovery.

Here is a partial list of what's open and closed on Monday for Victoria Day/F�te des Patriotes. Banks are closed. All federal and provincial government offices, including immigration and unemployment centres, are closed.

Scott Mills of JukeboxPrint.com says someone's been mailing drug packages using the company's name. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG , Sunday Province.

Gros Morne National Park's status as a world heritage site may be in jeopardy due to plans for controversial oil exploration on Newfoundland's west coast, CBC News has learned.

Japanese biotech ventures promising to make jet fuel from algae and to produce synthetic cartilage are soaring in Tokyo trading as cash pumped into the economy by the central bank cascades into speculative investments.