Updating TELUS, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, ENCANA CORP. and VERESEN

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TELUS $39.14 (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 623.4 million; Market cap: $24.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.7%; www.telus.com) has paid an undisclosed sum for Groupe Enode Inc., a privately held Quebec firm whose software protects databases from online intruders. Enode’s expertise should help Telus attract more government and corporate clients and make its cloud computing services more secure. As well, Telus has worked closely with Enode on several projects in the past few years; this familiarity helps cut the acquisition’s risk. Telus is still a hold. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $168.73 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares outstanding: 175.7 million; Market cap: $29.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 0.8%; www.cpr.ca), along with CN Railway (symbol CNR on Toronto), has had trouble shipping last year’s record grain harvest on the Prairies to Canada’s west coast due to bad winter weather. To help clear the backlog, Ottawa now plans to fine CP and CN if they fail to ship a minimum…