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VEREN INC., $9.54, is now a tender for investors. The company (Toronto symbol VRN; Shares o/s: 611.8 million; Market cap: $5.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.8%; www.vrn.com) has received a takeover offer from Whitecap Resources (symbol WCP on Toronto)....

Power Corp. offers you top-quality assets—all the more attractive given they come at a significant “holding company discount.” That’s the tendency for a holding company’s shares to trade for less than the value of its assets. In Power Corp’s case, it means investors can currently pick up shares at about a 24% discount....

iShares Canadian Select Dividend Index ETF offers you a high yield from 30 top dividend payers selected using growth and sustainability criteria.

Molson Coors offers a solid yield at a cheap valuation but the low-price reflects skepticism about growth even as it diversifies away from beer.

MERCK & CO. INC., $89.23, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

The company is now paying up to $2 billion for the rights to Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co.’s experimental heart drug....

TELUS CORP., $20.44, Toronto symbol T, is your #1 Income Buy for 2025.

The company is Canada’s largest wireless carrier with 13.88 million subscribers (including non-cellphone devices such as tablets). It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.

Starting in 2011, Telus began rewarding its shareholders with twice yearly dividend increases....

Over the years, longtime subscribers have frequently heard—and regularly benefited from—our three-part investment philosophy (see below). We have found that it works in all kinds of economies and all markets. We expect it, along with other TSI investing fundamentals (also below), will continue to help protect your returns despite tariff tumult.


1: Invest mainly in well-established, dividend-paying companies; 2: Spread your money out across most if not all the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer Goods & Services; Finance; and Utilities); and 3: Downplay or avoid stocks getting excess attention from the broker/media limelight.


If you have two-thirds of your portfolio in Canadian stocks and a third in U.S....

POWER CORP. OF CANADA $51 is a buy. The conglomerate (Toronto symbol POW; Conservative-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 644.8 million; Market cap: $32.9 billion; Dividend yield: 4.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.powercorporation.com) holds controlling stakes in Canadian financial services firms Great-West and IGM....

CIBC recently announced that Victor Dodig will step down as CEO in October 2025. His replacement, Harry Culham, currently heads the bank’s capital markets division.


We expect the new CEO will continue to focus on cutting non-interest costs, which will help the bank offset any negative impact on loan demand and repayments due to U.S....

A: Many investors start out thinking that they can double or triple their money in low-priced stocks, then shift their newfound wealth into the higher-priced, less exciting investments we focus on here at TSI Network. Some say they “can’t afford” to buy stocks that trade well above $100, such as Apple or even Canadian Pacific Kansas City, at $104....