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POWER CORP., $67.75, is a buy. The conglomerate (Toronto symbol POW; Shares outstanding: 582.2 million; Market cap: $42.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.6%) holds controlling stakes in Canadian financial services firms Great-West Lifeco and IGM Financial. It also owns 16.5% of the Belgian holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. Power has announced that R. Jeffrey Orr will become vice-chair of the company and will be succeeded as president and CEO by James O’Sullivan, effective July 1, 2026. Sullivan currently serves as president and CEO of IGM Financial.

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Blue Chip Stocks

Updating two of our blue chip leaders

TELUS, $18.97, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 1.6 billion; Market cap: $29.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 8.8%; www.telus.com) has 14.43 million wireless subscribers across Canada. It also sells landline phone, Internet, TV, and security services in B.C., Alberta, and eastern Quebec. Telus’s revenue in the quarter ended December 31, 2025, fell 2.2%, to $5.26 billion from $5.38 billion a year earlier. The decline reflects the competitive environment. If you exclude unusual items, earnings fell 18.2%, to $311 million from $380 million. Due to more shares outstanding, per-share earnings declined 20.0%, to $0.20 from $0.25. The lower earnings reflect higher costs.

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Blue Chip Stocks

BCE plans to expand Ziply

BCE INC., $36.11, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares o/s: 932.5 million; Market cap: $33.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 4.9%) purchased Ziply Fiber in August 2025, which offers high-speed Internet access and telephone services through a fibre-optic network in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. BCE paid $3.65 billion U.S. in cash ($5.04 billion Canadian). BCE now plans to expand Ziply from about 1.4 million locations currently to 3 million in the next four years. As a result, overall capital spending will probably rise about 1% in 2026 to $3.7 billion.

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Dividend Stocks

Buy either of these utilities for solid income

Below are two stocks that now get most of their revenue from long-term contracts. That steady revenue provides solid support for their high yields.

BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS L.P., $41.55, is a buy. The partnership (Toronto symbol BEP.UN; Units outstanding: 657.9 million; Market cap: $27.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.2%; www.bep.brookfield.com) owns about 235 hydroelectric generating stations, 263 wind farms, 323 solar facilities, and 7,552 distributed generation and energy storage sites.

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Dividend Stocks

RioCan sues Toys R Us

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $19.74, is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 293.7 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 173 shopping centres and other properties across Canada, including eight under development. Its occupancy rate is a high 97.8%. The REIT has terminated the lease for the Toys R Us store at its Lawrence Allen Centre in Toronto after that chain filed for creditor protection. RioCan wants the courts to force the retailer to pay it about $4 million in unpaid rent and other claims. The trust also holds stakes in malls with Toys R Us stores in Orleans, Ontario, and Calgary.

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Energy Stocks

Buy these two producers for lower-risk gains

The shares of oil and gas stocks remain high as energy demand stays strong. The emerging disruption to oil exports from the Middle East is another driver of short-term growth. We continue to recommend that most investors maintain some exposure to the oil and gas industry as part of a balanced portfolio. To cut risk, you should stick with producers that have positive cash flow even in times of low energy demand and prices. Here are two stocks that should meet that requirement. Moreover, they pay solid dividends:

ARC RESOURCES, $25.61, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ARX; Shares o/s: 575.7 million; Market cap: $14.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.3%; www.arcresources.com) produces natural gas as well as oil. Its average output of 408,382 barrels of oil equivalent per day is 58% natural gas and 42% oil.

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ETFs

Datacentres spur copper

GLOBAL X COPPER MINERS ETF, $88.16, is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol COPX; buy or sell through brokers; www.globalxfunds.com) lets you track the Solactive Global Copper Miners Index, with 40 global mining and exploration firms. The fund launched in April 2010.

Canadian firms make up 36.0% of the ETF’s holdings. They also include companies based in the U.S. (10.0%), Japan (9.5%), China (9.2%), Australia (8.0%), Sweden (5.5%), Poland (5.4%), and the U.K. (5.3%). The fund charges an acceptable 0.65% MER.

The ETF’s top holdings include Lundin Mining, 6.1%; Sumitomo Metal, 6.1%; Boliden AB, 5.5%; KGHM Polska Miedz, 5.3%; Southern Copper, 5.2%; Freeport-McMoRan, 5.2%; Glencore, 4.9%; and Antofagasta, 4.9%.

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ETFs

These ETFs tap precious-metal gains

Most precious metal stocks dropped along with the market in March 2020. They then quickly reversed that trend to soar for investors, in part because of gold’s appeal as a “safe harbour” in times of economic uncertainty. In fact, in August 2020, gold jumped to over $2,000 U.S. an ounce for the first time ever. The shares of gold miners also soared. Prices for the shiny metal then drifted down to about $1,800 as pandemic fears eased. Shortly after, they spiked to over $1,991 in March 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Blue Chip Stocks

IBM wins a key contract

IBM, $250 06, is a buy. The company (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 938.0 million; Market cap: $230.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 2.7%; www.ibm.com) has secured a five-year contract, worth up to $112 million, with the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) of the U.S. Department of War (DoW). The DoW operates commissaries worldwide. These American military general stores sell groceries and household goods to active-duty, Guard, Reserve, and retired military members from all eight uniformed services of the United States. Shoppers, which include eligible family members, pay just cost plus surcharge for anything they buy.

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ETFs

Here are two ETFs for U.S. and global gains

If you’re looking for ETFs with quality holdings and exceptionally low fees, then Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group offers you strong options.

Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers over $10 trillion U.S., spread across 441 mutual funds and ETFs. Here are two of its ETFs that we see as buys for you right now.

VANGUARD GROWTH ETF, $464.01, is a buy. The fund (New York symbol VUG; buy or sell through brokers) lets investors track the Center for Research in Security Prices U.S. Large Cap Growth Index. That broadly diversified index focuses on big U.S. firms.

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One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

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ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

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What are value stocks?

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Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

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A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

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Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

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Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.