The TSX was only slightly higher Friday, but Canada's benchmark stock exchange posted a healthy 14.3 per cent gain for 2010 overall.

Quebecers will have to dig deeper into their pockets starting Jan. 1, 2011, when the provincial sales tax goes up.

Sometime in the days leading up to Halloween, the 8,120th Canadian contacted police about being ripped off in a mass marketing scam, surpassing the total number of such victims reported for all of 2009.

This was the year General Motors and Nissan made good on their promise to bring mass-produced electric cars to the market. But don't count on seeing one in traffic soon.

Stock in Toronto-based Imax Corp. soared Friday following a report that Sony Corp. was in talks to acquire the large-screen theatre company.