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This year, we picked FirstService as your #1 Aggressive Buy. We feel the company has several advantages that will continue to fuel your gains for many years to come, well beyond 2025.


Those advantages include FirstService’s ability to acquire smaller firms and improve their profitability....

A: The short answer is “no.” That’s because you pay more in Canadian dollars when you buy U.S. stocks, but you get more Canadian dollars back when you sell.

Let’s say you want to buy a U.S. stock trading at $100 U.S.

This would cost you $137.86 in Canadian dollars at today’s exchange rate.

Let’s say the stock rose 5%, to $105 U.S.

If you sold it, and the exchange rate remained the same, you would get $144.76 in Canadian dollars.

That’s also an increase of 5%.

At the same time, exchange rates do change....

Broadridge is far from a household name outside of the financial sector. Regardless, since it was spun off by Automatic Data Processing (symbol ADP on Nasdaq) in 2007, the company has become a dominant player.

We added the stock as a buy in our February 2008 issue of Wall Street Stock Forecaster at $22 a share....

Investing in agriculture ETFs could be a smart move if you choose the right investments for the right reasons

BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC., $232.91, is a buy. The company, symbol BR on New York, serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing, and transaction clearing.

Broadridge is best known for processing and distributing proxies and regulatory filings for nearly every publicly traded U.S....

LUMINA GOLD CORP., $1.21, symbol LUM on Toronto Venture Exchange, owns 100% of the Cangrejos gold project in southwest Ecuador. Lumina believes it holds the 26th largest gold deposit in the world.

Lumina Gold’s project is funded by a $300 million U.S....

THOMSON REUTERS CORP., $254.64, Toronto symbol TRI, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2025.

The company sells specialized information (mainly through electronic channels) to professionals in the legal, and tax and accounting fields. It also owns the Reuters news service.

Despite the current economic uncertainty, demand for Thomson’s legal and tax information products remains steady.

In the quarter ended March 31, 2025, revenue rose 0.8%, to $1.90 billion from $1.89 billion a year earlier (all amounts except share price in U.S....

BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $68.98, is a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $85.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.2%; www.scotiabank.com) will probably have to increase its loan-loss provisions as the current U.S....

Both Loblaw and Metro have soared to all-time highs for our subscribers! Meanwhile, we think both stocks still have gains ahead. Indeed, both remain buys.


LOBLAW COMPANIES, $223.80, is a buy. The retailer (Toronto symbol L; Shares o/s: 299.0 million; Market cap: $65.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 0.9%; www.loblaw.ca) operates 1,106 supermarkets under several banners, including Loblaws, Zehrs, Provigo, Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills....

TELUS, $21.22, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $31.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 7.6%; www.telus.com) is Canada’s largest wireless carrier. It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.


Telus is now building new computer datacentres—one in Kamloops, B.C....