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RioCan REIT offers a high 7.1% yield as it continues to expand and report high occupancy rates from a reliable suite of large, well-known and stable tenants.

PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., $166.91, New York symbol PG, is a buy.

The company is one of the world’s largest makers of household and personal-care goods. Major brands include Tide (laundry detergent), Pampers (diapers), Gillette (razors), Crest (toothpaste) and Vicks (cold remedies).

Procter will now raise your quarterly dividend by 5.0%....

SOUTH BOW CORP., $32.31, Toronto symbol SOBO, is a hold.

On October 1, 2024, TC Energy Corp. (Toronto symbol TRP) completed the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as separate company South Bow. Investors received 0.2 of a South Bow share for every TC share they held....

This month we highlight a diversified ETF launched by the Toronto-based alternative asset manager, Arrow Capital Management—and managed by WaveFront Global Asset Management.


The second fund is a short-dated U.S. dollar money market ETF launched by TD Asset Management.


WaveFront All-Weather Alternative Fund $20.39 (Toronto symbol WAAV) invests in a range of investment assets with the aim of delivering consistent returns across diverse market conditions.


The ETF launched in January 2025, charges an MER of 0.95%....

A key rule of our three-part Successful Investor strategy is to spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities).

This has two main benefits: a) It keeps you from investing too heavily in any industry or sector that is headed into a period of big losses; and b) By spreading your investments out more widely, it also improves your chances of latching onto a market superstar—a stock that will wind up producing two or five or 10 times more profit than average.

ISHARES S&P/TSX GLOBAL BASE METALS ETF $16.86 (Toronto symbol XBM; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Aggressive; Market cap: $230.9 million) tracks the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index....

CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY LTD. $103 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 933.5 million; Market cap: $96.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 6.2; Dividend yield: 0.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cpkcr.com) ships freight over a 32,190-kilometre rail network in Canada, the U.S....

Both Bombardier and CAE remain vulnerable to changing tariff policies in the U.S. and other countries. Still, we prefer CAE for new buying given its broader geographic operations and higher revenue from services.


BOMBARDIER INC. is a hold. The company (Toronto symbols BBD.A $86 and BBD.B $86; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 98.4 million; Market cap: $8.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend suspended in February 2015; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.bombardier.com) now focuses solely on making private luxury and business jet planes following the January 2021 sale of its passenger railcar business to France’s Alstom SA.


The company has five production facilities: two in Canada (Toronto and Montreal); two in the U.S....

ENBRIDGE INC. $59 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $129.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 6.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) is part of a consortium that plans to build the new Traverse Pipeline.


This 260-kilometre line will connect two natural gas hubs along the Texas Gulf Coast....

Broadridge Financial Solutions just grew earnings 69.6% with 13.1% higher revenues as internal growth and strategic acquisitions continue to pay off.

AZEK COMPANY INC., $48.35, symbol AZEK on New York, manufactures sustainable building products focused on the outdoor living market. The company was founded in 1983 in Chicago.

Azek operates two divisions: Residential, which includes its TimberTech and Azek Exteriors brands, makes capped polymer and capped composite decking, along with railing, porch, lighting and paver products, and exterior PVC trim and moulding; and Commercial, which manufactures low-maintenance bathroom partitions, shower and dressing stalls, lockers and other storage solutions for schools, arenas, and other commercial facilities.

Azek’s residential segment generates 95% of its sales, with the commercial division accounting for the remaining 5%....