OTTAWA (AP) — President Barack Obama courted warmer relations with America’s snowy northern neighbor Thursday, declining to ask war-weary Canada to do more in Afghanistan, promising he won’t allow a protectionist creep into U.S. trade policy and talking reassuringly around thorny energy issues. Obama-happy crowds cheered Obama’s seven-hour visit, his first outside U.S. borders as president, and he returned the compliment with a quick stop at an indoor market. where he delighted shopkeepers by picking up pastries and souvenirs.——Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]