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LINAMAR CORP. $53 (Toronto symbol LNR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 65.2 million; Market cap: $3.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 0.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. linamar.com) make a variety of automotive parts, including cylinder heads, cylinder blocks, camshafts, crankshafts and connecting rods....

SHAWCOR LTD. $33 (Toronto symbol SCL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 64.6 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.shawcor.com) makes sealants and coatings that keep oil and gas pipelines from rusting....

MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. (Toronto symbols TPX.A $128 and TPX.B $133; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 214.7 million; Market cap: $28.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 6.2; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) has received approval from competition regulators in Canada and Europe for its purchase of the 58% of MillerCoors held by its joint venture partner SABMiIler....

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: 2.1; Dividend yield: 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is preparing to re-start its main oil sands projects near Fort McMurray, Alberta, now that the wildfires in the region have subsided....

PRECISION DRILLING CORP. $7.37 (Toronto symbol PD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resource sector; Shares outstanding: 292.9 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend suspended in March 2016; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.precisiondrilling.com) provides contractdrilling services to land-based oil and gas producers, mainly in North America....

LOBLAW COMPANIES LTD. $72 (Toronto symbol L; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 407.4 million; Market cap: $29.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.loblaw.ca) operates Canada’s largest supermarket chain....

METRO INC. $45 (Toronto symbol MRU; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 237.4 million; Market cap: $10.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 1.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.metro.ca) operates 600 grocery stores and 250 drug stores in Quebec and Ontario....

BANK OF MONTREAL $84 (Toronto symbol BMO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 643.6 million; Market cap: $54.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.8; Dividend yield: 4.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bmo.com) is paying an undisclosed sum for Minneapolis-based Greene Holcomb Fisher....

POTASH CORP. OF SASKATCHEWAN $23 (Toronto symbol POT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 839.2 million; Market cap: $19.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.7; Dividend yield: 5.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.potashcorp.com) is down 4% since the start of 2016....

TECK RESOURCES LTD. $16 (Toronto symbol TCK.B; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 576.3 million; Market cap: $9.2 billion; Price-to sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 0.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.teck.com) is a leading producer of metallurgical coal, a key ingredient in steelmaking....

SAPUTO INC. $40 (Toronto symbol SAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 392.8 million; Market cap: $15.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.saputo.com) is Canada’s largest producer of dairy products, including milk, butter and cheese....

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $80 (Toronto symbol RY; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $120.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.5; Dividend yield: 4.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.rbc.com) is Canada’s largest bank with assets of $1.15 trillion....

IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $41 (www.imperialoil.ca) gets roughly a third of its production from its 71%-owned Kearl oil sands project, 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. ExxonMobil (New York symbol XOM) holds the remaining 29%; Exxon also owns 69.9% of Imperial....

CENOVUS ENERGY INC. $20 (www.cenovus.com) evacuated some workers from its Christina Lake oil sands project north of Fort McMurray due to the wildfires. Even so, the facility continued to operate at normal production levels. Buy.

TELUS CORP. $41 (www.telus.com) gets most of its revenue from its wireless and regular telephone divisions. In the past few years, it has expanded into other businesses. These include helping doctors and hospitals convert patient records to electronic formats....

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ENBRIDGE INC. $52.48 (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares outstanding: 924.4 million; Market cap: $48.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Divd. yield: 4.0%; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada to Eastern Canada and the U.S....

IMPERIAL OIL $41.46 (Toronto symbol IMO; Shares outstanding: 847.6 million; Market cap: $35.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.5%; www.imperialoil.ca) gets about 75% of its crude oil from its Kearl and Cold Lake oil sands projects in northern Alberta....