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RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. $77 (Toronto symbol QSR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 463.1 million; Market cap: $35.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 8.3; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.rbi.com) is the world’s third-largest fast-food operator, after McDonald’s (No....

MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC. $35 (Toronto symbol MFI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 128.6 million; Market cap: $4.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mapleleaffoods.com) sells fresh and prepared meats under the Maple Leaf and Schneider brands.

The company continues to benefit from a recently completed restructuring plan....

Canadian Utilities and parent company ATCO give investors two ways to buy essentially the same businesses. Still, income seekers should pick Canadian Utilities, while value investors should go with ATCO.

CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD. (Toronto symbols CU [class A non-voting] $39 and CU.X [class B voting] $39; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 270.4 million; Market cap: $10.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 3.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.canadianutilities.com) distributes electricity and natural gas in Alberta and Australia....

SNC-LAVALIN GROUP INC. $53 (Toronto symbol SNC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares o/s: 175.4 million; Market cap: $9.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 2.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.snclavalin.com) saw its revenue fall 8.0% in the second quarter of 2017, to $1.9 billion from $2.1 billion a year earlier....

TECK RESOURCES LTD. $29 (Toronto symbol TECK.B; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 577.7 million; Market cap: $16.8 billion; Price-to sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 0.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.teck.com) is a leading producer of metallurgical coal, a key ingredient in steelmaking....

BCE INC. $59 (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 870.7 million; Market cap: $51.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 4.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) completed its acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services in March 2017....

Oil prices have moved up about 8% in the past two months to roughly $50 U.S. a barrel. The gain is largely due to OPEC’s production cuts. U.S. output of shale oil has also slowed as producers focus on their most-promising operations.

We continue to recommend all investors hang on to their high-quality oil producers such as the four we analyze below....

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $24 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 327.2 million; Market cap: $7.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 6.5; Dividend yield: 5.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan....

CN’s shares trade just above 19 times the company’s projected earnings per share for 2017. That seems high for a cyclical railway stock, but several factors significantly reduce CN’s risk.

That’s mainly because big railways face little competition from new entrants....

MCKESSON CORP. $166 (New York symbol MCK; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 226.1 million; Market cap: $37.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.2; Dividend yield 0.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.mckesson.com) is the largest wholesale drug distributor in the U.S....