#windsor-ontario

#windsor-ontario

Oshawa has the capacity to build, move and ship heavy gear all in one loop due to facilities like the Port of Oshawa and the GM Oshawa plant.

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.

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.

President Donald Trump will travel to Michigan on Tuesday to promote his efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing, trying to counter fears about a weakening job market and worries that still-rising prices are taking a toll on Americans' pocketbooks. The day trip will include a tour of a Ford factory in Dearborn that makes F-150 pickups, the bestselling domestic vehicle in the U.S.

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.

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.

Over the past seven years, I've worked for multiple companies shipping blockchain integrations and production-grade financial infrastructure in Lagos, Amsterdam, and now Toronto. I started my career in Nigeria, where I was born and raised, and moved to Amsterdam in May 2023 after a short career break for a job as a senior software engineer. I returned to Nigeria after a year and worked until I received my Canadian work visa through my wife in October 2024.

It was a rough week for the Canadian economy. GM laid off 500 workers at a plant in Oshawa, Ont. New threats from the White House targeted Canada's aerospace industry. And Statistics Canada announced its preliminary estimates show gross domestic product contracted in the fourth quarter of last year. Looming over all that bad news is a question about how much and how quickly Canada can realistically expect to diversify its exports.