1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1621+ words) The Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement that allows a fully integrated vehicle sector is up for renegotiation. OK, take a deep breath. Relax, we can work through this. When a discussion on the future of the automotive industry in Canada…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (755+ words) "Canada is staking its ground, saying it will not be bullied by the U.S." Like a double-edged sword hanging over the Canadian auto industry, the promise of Chinese-made electric vehicles being sold in Canada could bring new automotive jobs " but also…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (655+ words) "It is turbulent now, but we do not know what the landscape will be like years from now. We ride out storms." At a time when the automotive industry in Southwestern Ontario has been rocked by volatility and uncertainty, Toyota…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1396+ words) Governments have together pledged as much as $52.5 billion in support for electric vehicle businesses in Canada If you want to play, you have to pay. But when that payment is in the Canadian automotive industry, it in turn pays off…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (911+ words) Canada's auto sector experienced turbulence in 2025, but there were wins worth celebrating in Southwestern Ontario The past 12 months have been marked by uncertainty and turbulence in Canada's auto sector, one of the biggest industries across Southwestern Ontario. Trade tensions with…...

2+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (1270+ words) Jan. 20 will mark one year since Donald Trump swept back into office, igniting a trade war between Canada and the U.S. To say 2025 was a tough year for Canada's auto sector " which looms large and is concentrated in Southwestern Ontario, stretching…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (813+ words) From EV investment booms to painful plant closures, history offers cautions. St. Thomas is in for a radical transformation, with two plants worth more than $10 billion combined in the pipeline. PowerCo, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, plans to open its electric-vehicle…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (998+ words) GM bet on an electric future for its now-idled Ingersoll plant. How to plug their lives back in is the question for 1,100 laid-off workers. It's been a bittersweet year for autoworker Rachel Knapp, who lost both her father and her…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1419+ words) Is it a bump in a long, automotive road or the future of the industry here? Plant closings in Ingersoll and Brampton, which cost more than 4,000 Ontario workers their jobs, stunned the auto industry recently and laid bare the vulnerability…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1805+ words) St. Thomas and Ingersoll aren't far apart, but there's a world of difference in how they've been hit by the auto industry's electric bet. In one Southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the…...