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Dream Office’s high-quality boutique office buildings (unique buildings with smaller floorspace) outperform older buildings during periods of weaker office fundamentals. But at the same time, the trust is converting its less-desirable office properties into much more attractive residential units.


DREAM OFFICE REIT, $15.77, is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol D.UN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.dream.ca/office; Units o/s: 16.4 million; Market cap: $299.3 million; Dividend yield: 6.3%) will soon embark on an office conversion project in Calgary, after securing both a grant from the City and financing for the project....
MP MATERIALS, $37.22, is a buy. The company (New York symbol MP; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.mpmaterials.com; Shares o/s: 163.5 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; No divids.) owns the Mountain Pass mine, the only significant rare-earth commercial mining and processing site in North America.


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Intact Financial is now close to its recent, all-time high. That translates into a spectacular 612% gain since we first recommended the shares at $42.95 in April 2010! Our analysis suggests this Power Buy is poised to keep moving higher for you, our subscribers.


INTACT FINANCIAL, $305.99, is a Power Buy. The insurer (Toronto symbol IFC; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.intactfc.com; Shares outstanding: 178.3 million; Market cap: $54.6 billion; Dividend yield: 1.7%) is Canada’s largest provider of property and casualty coverage: its policies cover more than five million individuals and businesses....
Pharmaceutical stocks are often riskier than most investors realize. Drug companies must spend large sums to develop new medications and therapies, many of which will fail. Those that do succeed, will eventually lose their patent protection and face strong competition from generic drug producers.

Drugmakers also face political risk....
SNOWFLAKE INC., $208.18, symbol SNOW on New York, provides cloud-based data storage and analytics to more than 11,500 customers worldwide.

San Mateo, California-based Snowflake was founded in 2012 to help companies manage data they store in the cloud—the remote servers and software services that firms use to store and process vast amounts of information....
NORTH WEST COMPANY, $49.95, is a buy. The retailer (symbol NWC on Toronto) sells food, and everyday products and services through 230 stores. Those locations are mainly in northern communities across Canada and Alaska. Through your shares, you also tap the company’s operations in remote regions of Hawaii, the wider South Pacific and the Caribbean.

North West’s food offerings consist of perishable and non-perishable products including groceries, dairy, produce, meat, convenience foods, food service, home meal replacement, health and beauty aids, paper products and cleaning supplies....
WELLS FARGO & CO., $72.36, New York symbol WFC, is a buy.

The bank had total assets of $1.95 trillion as of March 31, 2025. That makes Wells Fargo the fourth-largest bank in the U.S., after J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup.

Wells Fargo last increased your quarterly dividend by 14.3% with the September 2024 payment, to $0.40 a share from $0.35....
WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC., $10.03, Nasdaq symbol WBD, remains a hold.

The company took its current form in April 2022 when AT&T Inc. (New York symbol T) merged its WarnerMedia business with Discovery Inc. AT&T investors received 0.241917 shares of WBD as a tax-free distribution for each share they owned.

The new firm is a leading producer of entertainment, sports and information programming....
ANDREW PELLER LTD. (class A shares) remains a buy for long-term gains.

The company, Toronto symbols ADW.A (non-voting) $5.02 and ADW.B $5.00, is Canada’s second-largest wine producer, after Arterra Wines.

In its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter, ended March 31, 2025, Peller’s sales fell 11.2%, to $75.5 million from $85.0 million a year earlier.

That decrease is largely because the year-earlier quarter included $5.8 million in support payments from the Ontario government; in fiscal 2025, the company recorded those payments throughout the year instead of reporting all in the final quarter like it did the previous year.

Thanks to a cost-cutting plan, losses in the quarter improved to $0.02 a share (or a total of $747,000) from $0.17 a share (or $6.9 million)....

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ETFs in brief

Exchange-traded funds are set up to mirror the performance of a stock-market index or sub-index....