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Retailer North West Co. saw sales and earnings jump in the latest quarter despite oil industry layoffs in its Canadian and Alaska markets.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the Canada Day holiday, our next Hotline will go out on Thursday, June 30, 2016.

BCE INC.,
$59.89, Toronto symbol BCE, is Canada’s largest provider of landline telephone service, with 6.6 million customers in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces....
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TRANSCANADA CORP., $55.59, Toronto symbol TRP, announced this week that it will build a new 800-kilometre natural gas pipeline in Mexico.

The project—called Sur de Texas-Tuxpan—will cost $2.1 billion U.S. and is part of a new joint venture agreement with Sempra Energy (New York symbol SRE).

The company will contribute $1.3 billion U.S....
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The low Canadian dollar boosted revenue for Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund in the last quarter and should help to keep cash flow and shareholder distributions steady.
Amerigo Resources is on track to double the copper output at its new high-growth Cauquenes tailings in Chile.
Hecla Mining Company increased its cash flow by more than a third with a spike in gold and silver output, which offset weak prices.

Why commodity prices are rising


The prices of several agricultural commodities continue to strengthen. For example, wheat prices are moving higher on continued dry weather in the U.S. Meanwhile, heavy rains are hurting wheat production in Germany.


Sugar prices are up on lower production in Brazil and higher imports from China....

CP Rail passes the 3-part investment test



From the time the last spike was driven to complete the new railway in 1885, Canadian



Pacific has been an essential part of Canada’s history, transportation and business life....