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 […]