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CAE INC. $23 (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 268.3 million; Market cap: $6.2 billion; Priceto-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) is the world’s largest maker of flight simulators for commercial airlines and military clients....

BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $2.40 and BBD.B $2.34; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $4.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) is the world’s third-largest maker of commercial aircraft, after Boeing (No.1) and Airbus (No....

IBM $153.67 (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 939.5 million; Market cap: $146.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.ibm.com) continues to attract transportation-industry firms to its cloud-computing services, which use remote servers to store data files online.


American Airlines will now use IBM Cloud for its websites, mobile apps and airport ticketing.


Airline computer systems handle everything from bookings to bag tracing, and they need to be reliable....

IBM $153.67 (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 939.5 million; Market cap: $146.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.ibm.com) continues to attract transportation-industry firms to its cloud-computing services, which use remote servers to store data files online.


American Airlines will now use IBM Cloud for its websites, mobile apps and airport ticketing.


Airline computer systems handle everything from bookings to bag tracing, and they need to be reliable....

WESTJET AIRLINES $21.85 (Toronto symbol WJA; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (1-877493-7853; www.westjet.com; Shares outstanding: 123.3 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; Dividend yield: 2.6%) will launch a new, ultralow-cost carrier (ULCC) in Canada.


To keep costs down, WestJet will likely use its existing aircraft and introduce its no-frills carrier on routes it already serves....

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....

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BLACKBERRY LTD., $11.52, Toronto symbol BB, provides wireless communication services, mainly to businesses and government agencies.


The stock jumped 12% this week after an arbitrator awarded the company $814.9 million U.S....

BOMBARDIER INC. (Toronto symbols BBD.A $2.44 and BBD.B $2.37; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $4.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) is the world’s third-largest maker of commercial aircraft, after Boeing (No.1) and Airbus (No....

A: Drone Aviation Holding Corp., $2.25, symbol DRNE on the U.S. over-the-counter bulletin board (Shares outstanding: 8.8 million; Market cap: $19.8 million; www.droneaviationcorp.com), aims to develop and sell tethered drones to government and commercial customers in the U.S....

CEDAR FAIR L.P. $68 (New York symbol FUN; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Units outstanding: 56.1 million; Market cap: $3.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.0; Dividend yield: 5.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. cedarfair.com) owns 11 amusement parks, four water parks (one indoor) and five hotels.


For 2016, Cedar Fair reported record-high revenue of $1.29 billion....