Updating MOLSON COORS CANADA INC., BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND and EMERA INC.

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MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. $49 continues to benefit from the cost savings generated by last year’s merger of its U.S. brewing operations with those of SABMiller. These savings should continue to help Molson Coors increase its earnings in the face of weak beer sales. Best Buy. BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INCOME FUND $27 is closing most of its 16 customer-support call centres in Atlantic Canada and merging them into five main centres. This move will cost $13 million, but it should improve Bell Aliant’s efficiency. The fund earned $98.8 million, or $0.62 a unit, in the third quarter. Buy. EMERA INC. $23 reported that its third-quarter earnings rose 40.9%. The gain was partly due to last July’s start up of the Brunswick Pipeline, which pumps natural gas from a liquefied natural gas plant in Saint John, New Brunswick, to markets in New England and Atlantic Canada. Buy. Buy…