Designed to help Canadians find investment solutions to the two big problems they’re facing: low interest rates and volatile stock markets, the Income Investor was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of the top five investment newsletters in Canada. If you need income from investments with minimal risk, the Income Investor covers all types of income securities including income trusts, preferred shares, high-yielding common stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and GICs. Any security that generates cash flow is fair game for our experts.
Edited and published by Gordon Pape. Editor: Mike Keerma.
With Gavin Graham, Shawn Allen, Richard Croft, & David Kitai.
Recent Issues
tii2011 (June 11, 2020)
Own gold, get paid… Gordon Pape’s updates: Brookfield Renewable Partners, TransAlta Renewables… Your Questions: Confused by dividends… Correction: SmartCentres REIT
tii2010 (May 28, 2020)
The Brookfield conundrum… Income portfolio for troubled times… Gordon Pape’s REIT updates: H&R REIT, SmartCentres REIT… Gordon Pape’s ETF updates: Global X SuperDividend REIT ETF, iShares Global REIT ETF, SPDR S&P Dividend ETF, Harvest Healthcare Leaders Income ETF… Gordon Pape’s stock updates: Firm Capital MIC, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners… TFSA portfolio discontinued
tii2009 (May 14, 2020)
Shake-up for High-Yield Portfolio… Gordon Pape updates Algonquin Power & Utilities, Pembina Pipeline, PIMCO Monthly Income Fund… Gavin Graham updates AltaGas Canada
tii2008 (April 23, 2020)
Know when to hold ’em… Review & outlook for income trusts… Top Pick: iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF… Gavin Graham’s updates: Boralex, Cogeco, Calian Group, Fairfax Financial Holdings… Gordon Pape’s updates: Firm Capital MIC… Your questions: Emera Preferreds Series H, Brookfield split
tii2007 (April 9, 2020)
Keep your priorities straight… Paul Bamford updates Morguard REIT, Bombardier preferreds… Gordon Pape updates Firm Capital, Summit Industrial Income REIT… More on bond ETFs
tii2006 (March 26, 2020)
High yield bond funds at risk… Selloff hits balanced portfolio… It’s rate-reset bargain-hunting time!… Top Pick: Emera Inc. Cumulative Minimum Rate Reset First Preferred Shares Series H… Gordon Pape’s updates: Pembina Pipeline Corp…. Your Questions: Bond funds
tii2005 (March 13, 2020)
Not all stocks are losers… Gordon Pape updates Atlantica Yield, Brookfield Infrastructure… Your Questions: U.S. funds… Members’ Corner: Bell preferreds
Recent Updates
Choice Properties REIT (TSX: CHP.UN)
The Weston family-controlled Choice Properties REIT holds its Loblaw-anchored grocery store assets. On Dec. 31, 2025, Choice owned 699 properties, consisting of 68.5 million sq. ft., with 98.2% occupancy worth $18 billion. Loblaws comprised 59% of the total, leaving 28.3 million sq. ft. for third-party retailers. 83% of the total is necessity-based retailers, including groceries, quick service restaurants, pharmacies, liquor stores, and doctors offices.
Buy
Sienna Senior Living Inc. (TSX: SIA, OTC: LWSCF)
Sienna Senior Living is one of Canada’s largest owners of seniors housing and the largest licensed long-term care provider in Ontario. The company owns a portfolio of 93 senior housing properties, operating an additional 12 for external owners. That real estate focused business and strong dividend yield makes it functionally equivalent to a REIT.
Buy
Dream Industrial REIT (TSX: DIR.UN, OTC: DREUF)
This REIT specializes in light industrial properties, mainly located in Canada but with a U.S. expansion strategy. It owns and operates a portfolio of 223 geographically diversified properties comprising approximately 20.2 million square feet of gross leasable area.
Buy
Mullen Group Ltd. (TSX: MTL)
Mullen Group is an Alberta-based transportation and logistics company, with a market cap of $2.64 billion. It’s mainly known as a trucking company, but Mullen also provides specialized services related to the energy, mining, forestry, and construction industries in Western Canada. These include water management, fluid hauling, and environmental reclamation.
We recommended the stock in May 2023 at $15.46. The major attractions were a steady share price and a monthly dividend of $0.06 per share ($0.72 a year), which at the time generated a yield of 4.7%. In August 2024, the monthly dividend was raised to $0.07 ($0.84 a year), for a yield of 2.8% at the recent price of $29.75.
The rise in the share price reduced the yield, but those who bought at the time of our original recommendation have a capital gain of 86% to compensate.
Hold
Keyera Corp. (TSX: KEY, OTC: KEYUF)
Keyera provides services such as gathering, processing, fractionation, storage, transportation, and marketing liquid natural gas (LNG). It does not do any exploration or production.