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

tii25/8/10 (August 25, 2010)

A new survivor trust…Bond credit ratings: A guide, not a crutch…Gavin Graham picks Leon’s Furniture…Updates: Enbridge common and preferreds…Your Questions: What to buy?

tii21/7 (July 21, 2010)

Survivor trust update…Five-year corporates look attractive…July’s top picks: Shaw Communications Notes, Capital Power Income L.P….July updates: Canada 2012 Strips, GTAA 6.25% Notes, Atlantic Power, Canadian Utilities, Student Transportation, Brookfield Soundvest Equity Fund…Your Questions: Bond funds…Correction: Firm Capital

tii7/7/10 (July 7, 2010)

New survivor trust pick…Firm Capital…North West Company Fund…PH&N Short Term Bond and Mortgage Fund…TD Bond Fund

tii1012 (June 23, 2010)

Time to add bank stocks…Beware Greeks bearing debt…June’s top pick: ARC Energy Trust…June updates: Bank of Montreal, National Bank, BMO preferreds, TD preferreds, Pembina Pipelines…Your Questions: Comparing REITs

tii8/6 (June 8, 2010)

Trusts hang in…Armtec Infrastructure Fund…Reitmans (Canada)…H&R REIT…Firm Capital

tii19/5 (May 19, 2010)

Income trusts: the home stretch…Shaw grabs Global TV assets…30-year bond bull market ending…May’s top pick: Telus 5.95% series CE notes …Updates: Emera, Liquor Stores, Penn West…Your Questions: Registered vs. non-registered, another flip-flop?

tii1008 (April 28, 2010)

Canadian Oil Sands still looks good…Don’t sit on your cash…April’s top income pick: Reitmans Ltd….Updates: BCE floating rate preferreds, National Bank. Colabor Group…Your Questions: Target prices, new trust tax, and more

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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.

 


Hold