Updates on your Conservative stocks: Canadian Tire Corp., IGM Financial Inc. and Teck Resources Ltd.

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CANADIAN TIRE CORP. $122 (www.canadiantire.ca) is a buy. The stock fell to $67.15 on March 18, 2020, as governments ordered non-essential retailers to close in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the company has re-opened most of its stores, the stock is up 82% from that low. The pandemic has also prompted more consumers to order products from Canadian Tire’s online stores, including its SportChek (sporting goods) and Mark’s (casual clothing) chains: in total, the company processed a whopping 80,000 orders a day compared to 5,000 before the pandemic. IGM FINANCIAL INC. $34 (www.igmfinancial.com) is a buy. The company’s fee income rises and falls with the value of the mutual funds and other securities it manages. As the stock markets recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, IGM’s assets under management improved 2.5% to $163.16 billion as of May 31, 2020, from a year earlier. In May 2020, clients also contributed $145.8 million more than they took out. TECK RESOURCES LTD. $15 (www.teck.com) remains a buy. The company owns 22.5% of Peru’s…