Updating Canadian Tire Corp., Thomson Reuters Corp. and BCE Inc.

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CANADIAN TIRE CORP. $150 (www.canadiantire.ca) will buy Padinox Inc., the privately held firm that owns the popular Paderno line of kitchenware products. Those wares include pots, pans, baking dishes and kettles. Canadian Tire has yet to reveal how much it will pay for the business. However, as part of the deal, it will sell Padinox’s manufacturing operations on Prince Edward Island. The purchase is part of Canadian Tire’s plan to expand its more-profitable private-label business. Those products now account for a third of its sales. Best Buy. THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $59 (www.thomsonreuters.com) sells information products to banks and other financial clients. It also sells specialized information to professionals in the legal and accounting fields. Its Reuters news service is a leading media company. Thomson now plans to repurchase 5% of its outstanding shares by May 2018. Buybacks raise all per-share calculations, including earnings per share. That gives shareholders a larger stake in the company. Buy. BCE INC. $60 (www.bce.ca) has launched its…