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CGI’s Sticky Government Contracts Provide a Downside Cushion

CGI Inc. investors continue to benefit from organic growth and accretive acquisitions, with a downside cushion from a contract‑driven, government‑heavy base.

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

Becton Dickinson & Co Is Underpinned by Steady Organic Growth

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

WSP Global Hits Record $16 Billion Backlog

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Blue Chip Stocks

Walmart Sees an Accelerating Transformation Pay Off Now and for the Future

Top pick Walmart Inc.’s earnings are projected to grow by double digits in 2027 while the stock boasts a “quality premium” to reflect its successful tech pivot.

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Jim Bates

Blue Chip Stocks

Intact’s Underwriting Excellence Drives Superior Growth

Intact Financial Corp. is a #1 Power Buy for 2026 as it continues to demonstrate excellence in its field as Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer.

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Jim Bates

Blue Chip Stocks

Telus Offers a 9.0% Yield

Telus Corp. offers an exceptional 9.0% yield as it seeks to pay down debt while pursuing attractive value-unlock ventures including AI datacentres.

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Jim Bates

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Blue Chip Stocks Explained for Canadians: Stability, Dividends, and Portfolio Fit

Learn what blue chip stocks are, why they’re steadier, and how Canadians can place them in TFSA/RRSP portfolios for reliable income.

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

7 Long-Term Investing Myths Canadians Should Ignore

Debunk common myths about long-term strategies in
Canada. Learn safer, income-first habits for TFSA/RRSP
investors without market timing or yield traps.

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Updating Suncor Energy Inc., Torstar Corp. and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $35 (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $52.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. suncor.com) has now acquired 84.2% of Canadian Oil Sands (Toronto symbol COS). That firm owns 36.74% of the Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta. The takeover gives Suncor 48.74% of Syncrude, and allows it to improve the project’s efficiency and profits. Under the terms of its takeover offer, Canadian Oil Sands investors each received 0.28 of a Suncor share for every share they own. If you include Canadian Oil Sands’ debt, the deal is worth $6.6 billion. Suncor expects to acquire the remaining shares in the next few weeks. Suncor is a buy....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE $96

CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE $96 (www.cibc.com) earned $2.55 a share in the quarter ended January 31, 2016. That’s up 8.1% from $2.36 a year earlier. Strong gains at the bank’s main personal and business banking operations offset weaker earnings from wealth management and securities trading....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

ShawCor gains from low Canadian dollar

SHAWCOR LTD. $28 (Toronto symbol SCL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 64.5 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend yield: 2.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.shawcor.com) makes sealants and coatings that keep oil and gas pipelines from rusting. It also makes electrical wire and protective sheaths. In 2015, its revenue fell 4.2%, to $1.8 billion from the $1.9 billion in 2014. That’s because weaker demand for its pipeline coating services offset the benefit of the low Canadian dollar. Favourable exchange rates added $106.5 million to ShawCor’s revenue in 2015. Earnings rose 3.6%, to $98.2 million from $94.9 million, thanks to fewer losses from its joint ventures. Due to more shares outstanding, per-share profits fell 0.7%, to $1.52 from $1.53. ShawCor’s backlog was $452 million at the end of 2015. Currently, it has $900 million worth of bids outstanding on new jobs. It also expects to bid on an additional $500 million worth of contracts. ShawCor’s strong reputation should continue to help it win bids....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $73

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $73 (www.rbc.com) recently completed its $7.1-billion acquisition of Los Angeles-based City National Bank. This business added $53 million to its latest quarterly profits. Even so, Royal’s overall earnings fell 0.4%, to $2.45 billion from $2.46 billion a year earlier; earnings per share fell 4.2%, to $1.58 from $1.65, on more shares outstanding....

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Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

Value Stocks

What are value stocks?

One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

ETFs

What are ETFs?

ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund.. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

How To Invest

Pat McKeough has been making investing for beginners simple—and profitable—by helping investors make big gains for more than 25 years. His advice to beginning investors is the same as it is for all investors: buy high-quality, mostly dividend paying stocks (or ETFs that hold these stocks) and evenly spread your investments over the five main economic sectors (Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, Utilities and Consumer). Pat also believes investors should avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight and focus on those with hidden or little-noticed assets.

Wealth Management

Wealth management is the practice of putting your savings to work so that it continues to grow over your lifetime and will also benefit your heirs. Wealth management encompasses many different areas of investing like long term investment planning and retirement planning.

AI Investing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is essentially the merging of today’s big computing with big data. This has resulted in breakthroughs in everything from creating machines to recognize faces with more accuracy than a human, to the development of chatbots able to collect, organize and simplify all the Internet has to say on any topic.

Spinoffs

One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Mining Stocks

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.