"Small Cars Can Be Bad Investments, Both for the Planet and the Pocketbook"
"Small cars can be bad investments, both for the planet and the pocketbook"
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Canadian Feds Reheat Yesterday's Pork
An old buddy of mine, who became an organizer for Liberal Party of Canada, once told me “nothings smells like elections more than asphalt.” The p…
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Peugeot is Not Coming to the US
Despite the headline claims of, um, some Motor Authoritative sources , Peugeot is not coming to the United States any time soon. And Canada would be a real s…
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Ford of CA Prez Quits After Six Months
As Reuters notes, 90 percent of the vehicles Ford builds in Canada end-up in the U.S. So, despite the fact that the Ford F-series is still the best-selling v…
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GM Canada's $5b Pension Shortfall
When CAW Prez Buzz Hargrove told me a GM C11 is inevitable, I wondered if Canadians might have a more realistic idea of The General's financial health, or la…
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Ask the Best and Brightest: What Should Samir Ask Buzz?
Basil "Buzz" Hargrove has been active in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) since its inception in 1984, including sixteen years as President. To put that in pe…
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GM Pays Oshawa Workers Even After Plant Closes
After accusations of " betrayal," blockades by the Canadian Autoworkers union, threats of lawsuits against the union and sops tossed to the union, GM is movi…
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News From the Front: Ford Stops Flex Production, Scales Back Edge
Our contacts at Ford tell us there's big trouble brewing for The Blue Oval Boys. Two independent sources report that FoMoCo is ceasing production of the fres…
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Bye Bye Buzz
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union president Basil a.k.a. Buzz Hargrove is stepping down early. Although Buzz was expected to retire when he reached the manda…
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CAW's Basil "Buzz" Hargrove Gets Canadian Gong
Amidst all the buzz surrounding controversial abortion activist Dr. Henry Morgantaler's elevation to the Order of Canada, you may have missed the fact that t…
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Friends Don't Let Friends… Uh, Got Any Brownies?
July 1st was truly a landmark day for Canadian motorists. In addition to the start of a cell phone ban in Quebec and a carbon tax in British Columbia, driver…
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Supplier Fallout Continues: Polywheels Is Toast
Ontario's struggling manufacturing sector took another blow yesterday. CNews reports that Oakville, Ont-based automotive supplier Polywheels has shut down in…
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Canada Day Brings B.C. Automotive Cash Grab
Today marks Canada's 141st anniversary. CTV reports that British Columbia's motorists can now look forward to higher motoring costs. That's right, Premier Go…
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Canada Spend CA$92m To Cull Clunkers
Programs to buy back beaters have been implemented in California and Texas, pulling thousands of polluting vehicles of the road each year. Canada's program t…
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Oshawa Blockade Ends
The Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW) ended its two-week blockade of GM's Oshawa truck factory this morning, in compliance with a court injunction. The Detroi…
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GM Wins Friends and Influences People: Sues CAW for $1.5m
Last time we checked in on the Oshawa closure debacle, a GM spokesperson was calling the CAW blockade "understandable." After nearly a week of being barred f…
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Canadian Feds Discuss GM Bailout
Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty awakes!. After years of ignoring calls from Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty to subsidize Ontarian jobs, brushing off…
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GM: CAW Protest "understandable"
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union officials are meeting with "top GM officials" about closing the Oshawa, Ontario truck plant. After CEO Rick Wagoner's annou…
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Oshawa Workers Blockade GM Offices
One knee-jerk reaction begets another. As reported yesterday, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) wasn't over the moon over the announced closure of GM's Oshawa…
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CAW Betrayed by GM, but Who's Really to Blame?
As you can imagine, GM's decision to close their Oshawa truck assembly plant in Ontario, Canada doesn't set well with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). "It's…
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The Ethics Of Auto Journalism In Action
Since it began, TTAC has called on all automotive publication to publish disclosure of all manufacturer-provided travel, lodging, food and gifts. The worst o…
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CAW Reaches Tentative Deal With GM/Chrysler
CTVNews reports that the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) has reached deals with both GM and Chrysler for its Ontario members. The agreements mirror those that t…
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Ontario Premier: "No Regrets" Over $250m GM Handout
Canada (like most other developed countries) has a hard time attracting/keeping auto manufacturing jobs due to high labor and tax costs. To counteract these…
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GM Closes Windsor Tranny Plant
CTV reports that General Motors is closing its transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario by 2010. The plant currently employs 1400 workers producing ye olde fo…
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CAW Turns Its Guns on Struggling GM, Defenseless Chrysler
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) have ratified a generous deal with Ford– frozen wages, no two-tier tears at bedtime– by a reported 67 percent mar…
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GM Cuts Truck Production, Big Style
The Detroit News reports that GM will be cutting one shift from its Flint, Pontiac, Oshawa, Ontario, and Janesville, WI factories by July 14. The slashing e…
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Chrysler Financial Loses Personal Data; Tells Customer Six Weeks Later
Chrysler Financial loses customer data, notifies customers six weeks later
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Pedal-power Buick Ruled Safe Enough
I'll give TTAC's Canadian readers the bad news first: As the summer driving season approaches, gas prices in Canada are nearing record highs established in t…
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Quebec & Nova Scotia Drivers: BEWARE
On April 1st, 2008 significant modifications to road safety regulations in the Canadian provinces of Québec and Nova Scotia went into effect. CTV.ca r…
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Canadian Feds to Spend $90m on Clunker Recycling
CTV.ca reports that John Baird, Canada's firebrand Minister of the Environment, has green-lighted a $90 million vehicle scrappage program. In essence, the…
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Ford Offers to Sell 300 Jobs to Ottawa
Ford confirmed yesterday that $16.5m in bribes public money from the province of Ontario was a crucial factor in its decision to reopen the Essex Engine pl…
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Ford Reopens Windsor Plant
Bloomberg reports that Ford is investing $165m in its Essex Engine plant in Windsor, Ontario. The plant, which has been shuttered since November, will produ…
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Hargrove: "Cerberus Misled Us"
CAW President Buzz Hargrove has been in a feisty mood lately. After telling all of Detroit where it can stick two-tier wages, Hargrove got personal with Cerb…
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Canada Sees Record Drop In Car Prices
The Financial Post reports that car prices in Canada have plummeted 6.8 percent last month, the biggest drop since 1956. The number comes from Statistics Ca…
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Toyota: 1; IAM: 0
The IAM has backed down, at least for now. Reuters reports that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers withdrew its bid to organiz…
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Korean Domestics Top Operating Cost Study
Montreal's largest French language daily has published a study on its site comparing 250 vehicles available for sale in Canada on the basis of MRSP, city fue…
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Union Alleges Unfair Labor Practices at Ontario Toyota Plant
The IAM says Toyota's using unfair tactics to thwart the union's organizational efforts in Cambridge, Ontario
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What Did Chrysler Do To Deserve All This?
A few days back we asked " Does God Hate Chrysler?" We're beginning to think that was more than just a rhetorical question. Regardless of your theological be…
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Canada Kills Clean-Car Rebate Scheme
The Government giveth, and the Government Taketh. In the same budget that contained a $250m initiative for Automotive Innovation to help the Canadian auto in…
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Leasing Companies Sue Mercedes, BMW, and the Canadian Government
Two leasing companies have filed a $1b class action suit alleging conspiracy to keep vehicles high
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Hargrove's Hard Line
CAW president Buzz Hargrove still insists they'll give no concessions in contract talks.
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Toyota Hearts Canada
Toyota has no qualms about investing money in Canadian production even though the operating costs are high
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GM: It's Canada's Fault
$300m of GM's record losses last year were due to the increased value of the Canadian loonie vs the U.S. dollar
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