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Our best investment advice for investors who want to be successful in the market is to use sound judgment and seek dividend-paying stocks

A: Chartwell Retirement Residences, $11.04, symbol CSH.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 234.7 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; www.chartwell.com), is a real estate investment trust that is now focused on retirement homes.

The company is the largest owner and operator of seniors’ residences in Canada....

IMPERIAL OIL LTD., $57.49, Toronto symbol IMO, is a buy.

This company gets about 60% of its production from oil sands operations in Alberta. Imperial also has conventional oil and natural gas operations in the West and holds stakes in projects off the coast of Atlantic Canada.

Imperial’s other operations include three refineries (one in Alberta, two in Ontario) and a petrochemical plant in Sarnia, Ontario....

OVINTIV INC., $55.74, Toronto symbol OVV, is a buy for long-term gains.

In 2020, Ovintiv became a U.S. company and changed its name from Encana Corp. (old symbol ECA). At the same time, investors received one share of Ovintiv for every five Encana shares they held....

COPPERLEAF TECHNOLOGIES INC., $6.71, symbol CPLF on Toronto, develops artificial intelligence-powered optimization software that helps clients who manage critical infrastructure, such as electricity generation or natural gas distribution, make investment decisions. Its software manages more than $2.6 trillion in infrastructure assets worldwide.

Companies use Copperleaf’s software to analyze, plan and budget how to spend capital budgets over multi-year periods in order to minimize business risks.

Vancouver-based Copperleaf’s prominent customers include National Grid plc (symbol NGG on New York), Duke Energy Corp....

MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. remains a hold. The company (Toronto symbols TPX.A $74 and TPX.B $71; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 216.7 million; Market cap: $15.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) is the world’s fifth-largest beer brewer.


The company has now settled an 11-week strike at its brewery in Longueuil, Quebec....

The pace of new real estate development continues to accelerate as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. Here are two stocks that will let investors profit from this trend.


RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $20 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 309.9 million; Market cap: $6.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.3; Distribution yield: 5.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 204 shopping centres and other properties, as well as 13 projects under development....

The benchmark crude oil price has jumped roughly 31% in the past year, from $75 U.S. a barrel to $98 U.S. That’s due to several factors, including COVID-19 lockdowns in China and sanctions on oil exports from Russia because of its war on Ukraine.


At the same time, these four leading oil and gas producers are pointing to increasingly stringent environmental regulations as a challenge to expanding their production....

In theory, higher-risk stocks should deliver higher returns than lower-risk stocks—otherwise, why would any investor want to invest in high-risk stocks? But, the evidence to prove or disprove the theory is mixed. Some studies point to lower-risk stocks outperforming high-risk stocks over the long run while others point to specific periods when high-risk stocks performed spectacularly well.


There is an optimal time to invest in higher-risk stocks—when they are shunned by investors driving valuations to very low levels....