toronto stocks were higher midday friday with the sptsx composite index up 10191 points driven by gains in the health technology and producer manufacturing sectors in the session consumer durables and health services were the laggards very good food cos shares plummeted after the plantbasedfood company priced a roughly us30 million equity raising canadas sptsx composite index was up 049 at 2092212 midtrading while the bluechip sptsx 60 was up 058 at 125512 shares in very good food were down 21 at c228 after it announced an sale agreement with institutional investors for 15 million units of the company at us2 apiece with each unit made up of 1 share and onehalf sharepurchase warrant entitling the holder to buy 1 share at a 235 exercise price avino silver  gold mines ltd shares were up 13 at c650 after it said that silverequivalent production increased 70 in the third quarter to 285464 silverequivalent ounces at its mine near durango mexico