Manufacturing

Toyota will assemble electric batteries at its Ontario plants, adding to the concentration of electric vehicle investment in Southwestern Ontario.

Canada’s aggressive new military rhetoric was on Monday welcomed by an analyst as well as workers at London’s General Dynamics Land Systems Canada plant. The city’s military industrial base may play a key role in Canada’s renewed commitment to national defence. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to boost military spending by $9 billion this fiscal year could […]

London’s vegan fast food franchise is set to hit convenience store shelves across Canada.

Two London manufacturers have shaken off industry uncertainty to settle collective agreements delivering wage, benefit increases to workers.

London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus.   Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]

Volkswagen has dodged the tariff and trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. and its manufacturing plant being built in St. Thomas will proceed full speed ahead, the city’s economic development boss says. Electric-vehicle batteries made in St. Thomas will be tariff-free under recent changes to the trade policy announced by the U.S., auto industry […]

Ontario's southwest will bear the brunt of the tariff war between Canada and the U.S., with the London region projected to lose 11,500 jobs, a new Ontario report says.

Mariners have a busy schedule to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing centers in the region, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating with food and festivities on […]

Could our present pains be the birth pangs of a new life for this country? We're about to find out.

U.S.-Canada trade tensions led to a steep drop in Canadians heading south last month – a trend that, if it continues, could help boost the London region’s tourism sector, an industry watcher says. Some 1.5 million Canadians made return trips to the U.S. by car in March, a 31.9 per cent drop from the same […]

Get ready for the sticker shock slowdown. The price of Canadian-made vehicles hitting U.S. dealer lots after tariffs are applied will rise between $2,500 and $15,000, depending on the model, says a recent report from a U.S. business consulting group. That price jump may slow sales of vehicles made here, and see automakers cut production […]

Governments at all levels are being urged to buy Ingersoll-made commercial vans to support workers here as fears rise over fallout from the U.S. trade and tariff war.