#ontario-plant-closure

#ontario-plant-closure

Renault plans to reduce its number of engineers by 15 to 20% in the coming two years, meaning up to 2,400 of the current 11,000 to 12,000 engineers worldwide would have to leave the company.

The town declared a state of emergency Tuesday at 2:00 p.m., citing an increasing level of water on its Gull River which flows directly through the town and more rainy, warmer weather forecasted for the next five to ten days.

A video posted by an Instagram account bearing Abdulkarim's name shows him lighting a goods on fire in the warehouse while taking aim at his company. 'All you had to do was pay us enough to live,' he repeats in the clip.

The average US residential road is 50-feet wide, while European roads are typically between 8.2-10.6 feet wide, highlighting the size disparity of vehicles.

Canada's economy added a modest 14,000 jobs in March, following major job losses during the first two months of the year, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 6.7 percent.

Due to a parts supply challenge with a supplier, we are temporarily pausing production on certain vehicle lines at our Solihull production facility. We are working closely with that supplier to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and minimise any impact on our clients or our operations.

Davine Greene, a nursing student, described her car as 'the bane of my existence' and called it 'probably the worst decision I've ever made, like, financially speaking.'

Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States' borders with Canada and Mexico-U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup. Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, that President Donald Trump negotiated with America's northern and southern neighbors during his first term.

Automakers are facing billions of dollars in additional costs from Trump's tariffs, particularly those levied on imported autos and car parts. Those tariffs, as well as levies targeting steel and aluminum, were implemented under a law that gives the president authority to impose import taxes on national security grounds. The duties were unaffected by the Supreme Court's ruling that struck down Trump's broader import taxes imposed on many countries.

Sales are down nearly 70 percent at Jahn Engineering, a tool and die shop that serves automakers here and in the United States. Dozens of workers have been let go following decisions made in the White House. The Canadian auto industry has been rocked by President Donald Trump's abandonment of subsidies for electric vehicles and embrace of tariffs.

They were among the first workers to be laid off as GM cuts one of three shifts. Up to 1,200 autoworkers across the supply chain are expected to lose their jobs. A lot of people have some sort of resentment, but you've just got to go on, move on, said Kendrick Gordon, speaking outside the plant on his last day working for a subcontractor.

As the Detroit Three automakers have made fewer cars in Canada over the past decade, Japanese car makers have kept their Canadian footprint consistent, according to a new report. The findings by the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing, a non-profit think-tank at Western University that analyzes manufacturing in Ontario, show a decline in the overall number of cars made in Canada compared to a decade ago. In 2016, 2.3 million cars were assembled in the country; by 2025, that figure fell to 1.2 million.

Stellantis said it would be selling its 49 per cent equity stake in NextStar to LG Energy Solution, in a Friday morning statement. Stellantis says it remains a committed customer and will continue to source battery products from NextStar. To date, the companies say roughly 1,300 people are employed at the Windsor plant with a long-term goal of 2,500 having employees.