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A: CIBC’s Canadian Depository Receipts (CDRs) give investors the opportunity to buy shares and/or fractions of shares in any of a number of U.S. or other foreign companies, in bundles that start out trading at a price of about $20 Cdn. each. CDRs come with a built-in hedging feature that reduces exchange-rate fluctuations....
In July 2022, when the ESG craze was at its peak, The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled “The many reasons ESG is a loser.” (ESG refers to environmental, social and governance causes.)

The article went on to analyze a number of mutual funds that were pursuing an ESG-focused investment mandate....
AMERIGO RESOURCES LTD., $1.31, is a buy for aggressive investors. The company, symbol ARG on Toronto, processes copper and molybdenum from the waste rock of the El Teniente mine in Chile. That site is the world’s largest copper operation. Amerigo also has other deals to process material at the nearby Colihues and Cauquenes tailings ponds.

It currently gets 94% of its revenue from processing copper....
CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY LTD., $97.81, Toronto symbol CP, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2023.

The company took its current form on April 14, 2023, when Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. completed the acquisition of U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern.

CP paid $31 billion U.S....

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MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORP. $26 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol MFC; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio; Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $46.8 billion; Dividend yield: 5.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.manulife.ca) is Canada’s largest life insurer....

These two REITs own some of the best properties in Canada’s biggest cities. Despite the disruptions caused by the work from home and online shopping trends, those high-quality holdings should continue to attract tenants and let these REITs keep raising your distributions.


ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $17 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 139.8 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; Distribution yield: 10.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.alliedreit.com) owns 200 office buildings and 13 properties under development, mainly in major Canadian cities....

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SUNCOR ENERGY INC., $46.33, Toronto symbol SU, remains a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. It also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with 1,875 Petro-Canada gas stations.

With the December 2023 payment, Suncor will raise your quarterly dividend by 4.8%, to $0.545 a share from $0.53....

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