David Kennedy

A Unifor strike at Ford Motor Co. of Canada plants in Ontario would have serious repercussions for the automaker’s wider North American supply chain, particularly for output of Ford’s best-selling pickups, according to U.S.-based auto analyst Sam Fiorani.

Unifor says it received "a substantive offer from the employer minutes before the [strike] deadline" Monday.

The Bank of Montreal is exiting the retail auto finance business, as it looks to redeploy resources to areas where its “competitive positioning is strongest.”

Unifor is “meeting resistance” from Ford on several priority issues, Preisdent Lana Payne says, including pension and wage improvements for members.

Adjusted for inflation, wages at Detroit Three plants in Canada have only gone backward, potentially limiting the industry’s attractiveness when it needs new blood.

The federal government is not budging on its plan to mandate the sale of zero-emission vehicles starting in 2026, but after months of dialogue with industry, is showing some willingness to build flexibility into the sales requirements, according to the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association.

Manitoba is throwing its hat in the ring as the next hub for critical minerals mining and processing to support the electric-vehicle supply chain.

CanadaOne Auto Group has added two Toronto dealerships to its growing portfolio in Ontario, where it now owns 10 new-car stores.

It will take the Canadian and Ontario governments 20 years — not five as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed — to break even on tens of billions of dollars in tax credits committed to Volkswagen and Stellantis battery plants in Ontario, according to an analysis from Ottawa’s budgetary watchdog.  

AutoCanada and the company’s founder and former CEO Patrick Priestner have settled a yearslong legal battle, with neither party admitting wrongdoing or liability.

ABC Technologies Holdings Inc., one of a handful of publicly traded Canadian parts suppliers, is being taken private by the pair of asset management firms that currently own all but a 6.6 per cent stake in the Toronto-based company.

The all-cash takeover will supersize Toronto-based Alpha Auto, adding 147 U.K. locations to its 15 new-vehicle stores in Canada and the United States.

Printing aluminum structural parts has some distinct advantages over stamping, casting and machining. Using its new $2.6 million hypercar as a rolling example, one company wants to take the process mainstream