Hi, Pat: I am retired, hence primarily an income investor. Immediately following the CRTC’s recent decision, shares of Corus Entertainment dropped. How do you see the company’s longer-term prospects? Is it worth continuing to hold? Thanks.

Corus Entertainment, $17.73, symbol CJR.B on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 86.5 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; www.corusent.com), operates specialty and pay TV channels, radio stations and subsidiaries in children’s book publishing and animation.

Corus’s brands include YTV, Teletoon, ABC Spark, W Network, the Oprah Winfrey Network… Read More

BCE INC. $46.60 – Toronto symbol BCE

BCE INC. $46.60 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 775.4 million; Market cap: $36.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.0%; www.bce.ca) has restructured its $3.4-billion deal to buy Astral Media (Toronto symbols ACM.A and ACM.B).

Montreal-based Astral owns 22 TV stations, 84 radio stations and… Read More

BCE revises Astral bid

BCE INC. $46.60 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 775.4 million; Market cap: $36.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.0%; www.bce.ca) has restructured its $3.4-billion deal to buy Astral Media (Toronto symbols ACM.A and ACM.B). Montreal-based Astral owns 22 TV stations, 84 radio stations… Read More

Our Two Favourite Universal Funds

UNIVERSAL CANADIAN GROWTH FUND $20.93 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (Mackenzie Financial Corp., 150 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont. M5S 3B5. Web site: www.mackenziefinancial.com. 1-800-387-0780; Load fund — available from brokers) holds companies with strong management and sound business prospects. The fund holds fewer than 40 stocks… Read More

Two Buys for Small-cap Growth

TD CANADIAN SMALL-CAP EQUITY FUND $29.54 (CWA Rating: Aggressive) (TD Asset Management, P.O. Box 7500, Station A, Toronto, Ontario. M5W 1P9. 1-800-386-3757; Web site: www.tdcanadatrust.ca. No load — deal directly with the bank) invests in small to medium-sized companies located in Canada and other countries,… Read More

Universal Canadian Growth Fund $20.66

UNIVERSAL CANADIAN GROWTH FUND $20.66 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (Mackenzie Financial Corp., 150 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont. M5S 3B5. Web site: www.mackenziefinancial.com. 1-800-387-0780; Load fund — available from brokers) holds companies with strong management and sound business prospects. The fund holds fewer than 40 stocks… Read More

Two Universal Funds With Appeal

Here are two funds offered by Mackenzie Financial. We rate one as Conservative and the other as Aggressive. But both cut risk by investing in high-quality stocks.

UNIVERSAL CANADIAN GROWTH FUND $20.66 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (Mackenzie Financial Corp., 150 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont. M5S 3B5… Read More