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PEMBINA PIPELINE, $48.13, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares o/s: 502.4 million; Market cap: $25.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Divd. yield: 5.0%; www.pembina.com) has now completed the acquisition of Kinder Morgan Canada for $2.3 billion....
INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY, $16.86, is a buy. The power generator (Toronto symbol INE; Shares outstanding: 133.6 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield 4.2%; www.innergex.com) operates 37 hydroelectric plants, 26 wind farms and four solar power fields....
QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP. $162 is a buy for our subscribers. The company (New York symbol KWR; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares o/s: 17.7 million; Market cap: $2.9 billion; P/S ratio: 3.0; Divd. yield: 0.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.quakerchem.com) has completed its acquisition of rival Houghton International as a way to add value for investors....
In 2019, our U.S. neighbours, alone, spent a whopping $9.4 billion in online shopping on Cyber Monday. That’s a 19.7% jump over 2018.


For investors looking to tap that phenomenal growth, the question is often which new retailer will give them the broadest and most-lucrative exposure to e-commerce? We, however, believe there is a better way.


It involves following our three-prong approach to investing—specifically, the part about sticking with well-established companies and downplaying stocks that are in the broker/media limelight....
CVS HEALTH CORP. $73 is okay to hold. Through the stock (New York symbol CVS; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $94.9 billion; Divd. yield: 2.7%; Takeover Target Rating: Low; www.cvshealth.com), you gain exposure to over 9,900 drugstores in the U.S.


CVS’s shares have gained just 2% in the past year....
NORTH WEST COMPANY $28 is still a buy. The company (Toronto symbol NWC; High-Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 46.9 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.7%; www.northwest.ca) last raised your quarterly dividend in April 2019....
Chances are that in the decades (and possibly centuries) ahead, the world will look back on Google as the key pioneer in web search—the explosive technology of finding what you are looking for on the Internet in a quick and easy manner. Our descendants may look back on Google’s role in web search in much the same way that we look back on, say, Henry Ford’s role in the growth of the auto industry.

Or, they may look on Google as the first of a series of successful businesses launched/owned by Alphabet Inc....
With their clean, renewable power, Brookfield Renewable and Innergex hold a lot of conceptual appeal for investors. But just as important, they give you great returns on top of their high dividends: Brookfield is up almost 78% so far this year, and Innergex has gained over 37%....
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $316.00, is a buy. The Canadian blue-chip leader (Toronto symbol CP; shares outstanding: 147.7 million; Market cap: $42.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.1%; www.cpr.ca) is now buying 774 kilometres of track in Quebec and Maine....
In 2017, some of our subscribers worried that Pembina’s $9.7 billion acquisition of Veresen Inc. was too big and too risky. We’ve long alerted you to the potential dangers of a growth-by-acquisition strategy, but were confident this one would lead to real gains....