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Negotiations between GM and Magna - based in Aurora, Ont., it's one of the world's biggest auto-parts suppliers, with annual revenue of $23.7 billion - have hit one roadblock after another. A key sticking point is disagreement over Magna's right to use GM's technology and engineering, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe, where the parts company has plans for aggressive expansion. (See the most exciting cars...
What would you say has been your favorite character to play thus far? -Prabhjot Sidhu, Mississauga, Ont. I had the time of my life playing Don (the Goods) Ready. I really did. We experimented so much, and I was doing things where I just thought, This will never be in the movie - there's no way. And then not only did it end up in the movie, but it ended up really working...
...What do you think about the way J.K. Rowling formed the plots of the books? - Frances Taylor, Sarnia, Ont. Obviously, it's inspired. Otherwise, they wouldn't have done nearly as well as they have. They have taken the best bits of different kinds of literature. It's the latest in a long line of orphan literature. There's the English boarding school. There's the good-vs.-evil thing. The fact that she came up with the entire thing on one train journey is pretty remarkable...
...typical line worker at a GM plant in Ramos Arizpe or Silao earns $2.80 per hour, a mere 10% of the $28 per hour (not including benefits) earned by his counterpart in Grand Rapids, Mich., or Oshawa, Ont. Add in GM's crushing legacy costs - pension and health-care obligations to retirees - which are only a minor consideration in Mexico, and it explains why the country is a cash...
...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...