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BCE Inc., an abbreviation of its former name Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell Media Inc. Founded through a corporate reorganization in 1983, when Bell Canada, Northern Telecom, and other related companies all became subsidiaries of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., it is one of Canada’s largest corporations. The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

BCE Inc. is a component of the S&P/TSX 60 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American-based New York Stock Exchange.

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These six ETFs hold mostly blue-chip stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each ETF mirrors, or tracks, the performance of a major stock market index. That’s different from narrower indexes that focus on resources or themes such as solar power or biotech.


Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....
TELUS $43.51 (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 591.4 million; Market cap: $25.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.4%; www.telus. com) provides a wide range of telecommunications services across Canada, including television, high-speed Internet, and wireless and landline telephone services.


The company recently agreed to repurchase up to 1.0 million of its shares from a private seller at a discount to the market price.


The move is part of Telus’s plan to buy back up to 8.0 million of its common shares, or roughly 1% of the total outstanding, by September 29, 2017....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $26.78 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 325.1 million; Market cap: $8.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.3%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 301 shopping centres in Canada.


The trust is teaming up with Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol BEI.UN) to build and operate an 11-storey residential/retail tower in Calgary....
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Both BCE and Telus continue to prosper in the competitive Canadian telecom market. That positions them to continue raising their already-high dividend payouts.


BCE INC. $60 (Toronto symbol BCE; Income Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 868.2 million; Market cap: $52.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 4.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.bce.ca) is Canada’s largest telephone provider, with 6.5 million customers in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces....
BCE continues to attract new wireless, high-speed Internet and TV customers. That has more than offset the steady decline in traditional telephone customers. The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand its wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings.

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These six ETFs hold mostly blue chip, widely traded stocks on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. All of them mirror, or track, the performance of major stock market indexes. That’s opposed to narrower indexes focused on, say, resources or themes such as solar power or biotech....
BCE INC. $61.27 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares o/s: 869.5 million; Market cap: $53.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.5%; www.bce.ca) acquired a 35.4% stake in Q9 Networks Inc. in 2012. Q9 provides cloud datastorage and web-hosting services to businesses across Canada....
ISHARES CANADIAN SELECT DIVIDEND INDEX ETF $22.97 (Toronto symbol XDV; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds 30 of the highestyield Canadian stocks. Its selections are based on dividend growth, yield and payout ratio. The weight of any one stock is limited to 10% of the ETF’s assets....
ISHARES S&P/TSX 60 INDEX ETF $21.33 (Toronto symbol XIU; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) is a good low-fee way to buy the top stocks on the TSX. The units are made up of stocks that represent the S&P/TSX 60 Index—the 60 largest, most heavily traded stocks on the exchange....