London manufacturers fear a “fight” with customers and possible job losses will be the fallout from steel and aluminum tariffs imposed Wednesday on Canadian exports to the U.S. as industry weathered the first day of the latest trade scrap. Businesses buying and selling steel and steel products will be forced to charge customers more as […]
U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada’s dairy industry Friday, signaling he will implement steep tariffs on Canadian dairy. Though the dairy tariff threat is “noise” from the Oval Office, it’s a sign U.S. access to the Canadian market will be a battleground for the Trump in the future, one Canadian agri-food expert says. […]
The London region’s jobless rate improved significantly last month, dropping nearly a half-percentage point to 6.6 per cent – a sliver of economic optimism amid fears Donald Trump’s tariff threats could soon exact a heavy toll. The jobless rate for the London region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and parts of Elgin and Middlesex counties, […]
The 1,300-worker Cami electric-vehicle assembly plant, owned by GM Canada, was closed Wednesday as part of a scheduled two-week shutdown.
Home sales in the London region slumped for a second straight month in February amid the economic uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs
A small community just east of London is in a position to pay off a Cold War-era submarine, a bad debt that’s hung over it for a decade, its top administrative official says. The Municipality of Bayham, which sits on the shore of Lake Erie in Elgin County and has 7,000 residents, was saddled with […]
This year’s Coldest Night of the Year walk in Wingham managed to raise $30,000 for United Way’s Northern Huron Connection Centre. On Feb. 22, dozens of walkers congregated at the Maitland River Community Church to participate in the event, which raised a total of $30,840. Although some area walks were forced to make adjustments due […]
Barriers to trading goods between provinces could be costing the wider London area as much as $1.4 billion in lost production a year, a national economist says.
A grassroots group of municipal politicians is urging voters to make homelessness a provincial election issue, with the equivalent of a city larger than Sarnia living on the street across Ontario. Calling the encampments that have cropped up in municipalities big and small in recent years a “human rights crisis,” the Ontario Coalition for the […]
Measles cases have quadrupled in one area east of London and more than doubled in a second area since outbreaks were declared two weeks ago, health officials said Tuesday. There are nearly 50 cases in several counties, doctors for two area health units said at a virtual news conference. Ninh Tran, medical officer of health […]