The Canadian Markets made a valiant effort to keep the seven-week winning streak intact but by the end of trading on Friday the late week rally fell just short. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange surged 1.85%, while the TSX Gold Index fell 0.3% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 0.12% with the advancers beating out the decliners by a 448 to 334 margin on volume good volumes of 168 million shares traded.