TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index advanced on Friday as hopes that Cyprus will strike a bailout deal before a looming deadline boosted financial shares and helped offset an 8 percent fall in BlackBerry .
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 9.48 points, or 0.07 percent, at 12,757.35.
(Reporting by John Tilak; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)