Canada's currency advanced against most of its counterparts on Friday after a report showed an increase of new-home prices by 0.1% in January led by Canada's capital city where the growth was 0.3%, the Statistics Canada reported on Thursday. The so-called Loonie increased 0.5% to C$1.0222 per U.S. Dollar at 5 p.m. in Toronto and closing with a 0.6% gain, the most since January 2.