Digital Realty is a leader in the data centre world with a market capitalization of $48 billion and about 9% of the global share for data centres. Its clients are a Who’s Who of the technology world, including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Apple. Google, and LinkedIn.

Cincinnati-based P&G is a giant in the cleaning products business as well as personal health care and grooming. The odds are your bathroom, kitchen, and laundry are stocked with P&G products. The long list of brands includes Tide, Bounce, Pampers, Downy, Bounty, Charmin, Always, Tampax, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Old Spice, Pantene, Cascade, Febreze, Oral-B, Mr. Clean, Crest, Scope, Vicks, Ivory, and Secret.

The ETF replicates the performance of the Solactive Equal Weight Canada Utilities Index net of expenses. It holds the stocks in the same proportion as they are reflected in the index. The fund is 2.6% higher year-to-date, matching the TSX, and 20% in the past 52 weeks.

Leon’s, which operates Canada’s largest home furnishing chain under its own name and its subsidiary The Brick, has 299 stores nationwide. It has continued to deliver moderate sales growth despite cost-of-living pressures and the ability of consumers to defer large-ticket purchases such as furniture and home appliances.

Ottawa-based Calian employs over 5,000 people in its four divisions. The two largest are healthcare, providing clinical services, medical facilities management, and nursing and psychological services, and advanced technologies, which operates a satellite, antenna, and base station manufacturing business from Saskatoon, including work on the Canadarm 3 project.

Its other two businesses are information technology and cyber solutions and learning, which specializes in emergency preparation consulting, especially in dealing with chemical, nuclear, biological, and radiation issues (CNBR).