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...Canada has lost 5,000 vehicle-assembly jobs and 10,000 parts-supply jobs, almost all of them in the belt of southern Ontario that runs from New York to Michigan. GM Canada has been hardest hit, but it has yet to reap the worst of this whirlwind. The Oshawa, Ont.-based car company, which takes its marching orders from Detroit, expects to shed another 4,000 jobs with planned closures of a truck and transmission plant. This downsizing is needed to cope with overcapacity, but it's fostering bad blood between the car maker and its union. "We felt...
...Mike Kusiewicz, Montreal Pierre-Luc Laforest, Hull, Que. Chris Mears, Ottawa Justin Morneau, New Westminster, B.C. Aaron Myette, New Westminster, B.C. Kevin Nicholson, Vancouver John Ogiltree, Toronto Peter Orr, Richmond Hill, Ont. Simon Pond, North Vancouver Ryan Radmanovich, Calgary Paul Spoljaric, Kelowna, B.C. Adam Stern, London, Ont. Andy Stewart, Oshawa, Ont. Jeremy Ware, Guelph...
...20th century [TIME 100, June 14], but I am very impressed with your selections for this special issue. I sat down to take a quick look at the magazine and did not get back to work for several hours. This issue will never be discarded. JEAN SIMMONS Oshawa...
...Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. If the strike continues into next week, the slowdown...
...goal, all eyes are on Oshawa, Ont., native Geoff Finch. The netminder was the ECAC's Rookie of the Year two seasons ago but fell from grace last season and split time with classmate Brett Haywood...