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...According to the family's press agent, the lady has left Canada around 12:30 today," said Michelle Simard of the Sacre-Coeur hospital in a recorded message. "We have no information on Ms. Richardson's health condition, but the family should give more information by tomorrow...
...Some of his colleagues are trying to do that in their post-P-I careers. Environment reporter Robert McClure is developing an outlet devoted to news across the American West and eventually, he hopes, western Canada. "It is a venture aimed at doing investigative, environmental and narrative journalism - for all kinds of platforms," he says. He has purchased the domain name TrueWest.info and already has 10 people onboard. His wife, Seattle-based freelance journalist Sally Deneen, has been working with several P-I reporters to develop the Seattle Post Globe, a site, she says, that will be devoted to keeping...
...minivan plant in St. Louis, and last week killed a third shift at its minivan plant in Windsor, Ont., throwing 1,200 people out of work. This suggests that even while minivan sales are sagging with the economy, the company is earning more money making this family vehicle in Canada than in the U.S. (See the most important cars of all time...
...addition to demanding $2.3 billion in loans from Ottawa, Chrysler also wants the Canada Revenue Agency, that nation's tax collector, to stop hounding the automaker for more than $1 billion in taxes mistakenly paid to the U.S. years ago. The Canadian government only recently uncovered the error, and has since placed a lien against Chrysler's Brampton, Ont. plant and withheld $235.5 million in tax rebates...
...being raised about whether the Windsor native, whose father was a CAW representative at one of the plants he's threatening to close, might be playing the biggest bluff of his career. It seems hard to imagine Chrysler turning its back on the billions it has invested in Canada, and more than 9,000 employees. That LaSorda is even discussing it, though, is a measure of how desperate the times are for automakers. "I'm hoping it's a bluff," says the CAW's Lewenza, "but I've seen this company mothball plants and walk away before...