(A Top Pick Dec 10/07. Down 46%.) Great assets and well diversified. Potential to make money at the wellhead as well as at retail distribution. Incredibly inexpensive. Even with low oil prices, cash flow should be in excess of $10 over the next couple of years.

Finally seeing some improvements in Loblaws (L-T) and the beginning of a turn. Recently sold their US bakery division. Speculation that they could privatize Loblaws.

North American engineering firm. Infrastructure play. Recently purchased a largely environmental engineering firm. Earnings over the next 2 years should be around 2.25 or higher.

(A Top Pick Dec 10/07. Down 7%.) Exposure to financial markets is substantial but in a position where they are integrating Reuters acquisition and will have competitive products with Bloomberg. Also have legal, scientific and information sites.

(A Top Pick Dec 10/07. Down 42%.) Of all the banks, it seems to have the most conservative accounting. Relatively strong capital base. Yield of over 6.5%.

Good holding for longer than 3 or 5 years. Excellent assets through Great West Lifeco (GWO-T), Investors Group (IGM-T), etc. Have got hurt in this market but for the long-term is a relatively safe place to be.

Takeover is probably one of the only things that will pull this company out but people might wait for it to go into receivership and then go for the assets.