David Kennedy

Ontario-based Arora Auto Group has doubled its new-car dealership count from one to two with the acquisition of Toronto’s Airport Mazda.

Cars & Concepts is a showcases of new or refreshed vehicles recently on sale in or destine for the Canadian market. Here are offerings from Mazda, BMW, Honda, Toyota and Infiniti.

The Trotman Auto Group has acquired VIP Mazda in Abbotsford, B.C., adding a 12^th dealership to its portfolio concentrated in the Pacific province.

The 2023 Detroit Three negotiations have inspired plenty of debate, so it’s time to address the elephant in the room: Did U.S. or Canadian autoworkers get the better deal?

The degree of separation between new and longtime union workers is no longer a chasm.

Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. has halted construction on its battery materials processing plant in Rochester, Ny., and laid off all 30 staff at its Ontario recycling plant, as it cuts expenses and maps out a strategy for completing its New York “hub” in the face of steeply higher costs. 

A five-day strike at Magna International Inc.’s Integram seating plant in Windsor, Ont., ended late Nov. 12, as company and Unifor Local 444 negotiators agreed to a tentative deal.

Automakers delivered 18,671 vehicles that qualified for the federal program during the month, a monthly tally topped only by the 22,061 shipped in August, according to the latest data from Transport Canada.

Diluted earnings came in at 81 cents per share, a 30.2 per cent decline from $1.16 per share recorded in the third quarter of 2022. AutoCanada cited higher interest rates, which translated into higher floorplan costs, for the slide.

Stellantis plans to return its assembly plants in Brampton and Windsor, Ont., to three-shifts by 2026, but workers in Brampton are likely to be off the job for nearly two years, as the plant in the Toronto suburbs undergoes a lengthy retool.

A dozen manufacturing development projects with artificial intelligence at their core are moving ahead with $19 million in backing from Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen).

Through three days of voting, 60 per cent of Unifor’s roughly 8,200 members at Stellantis voted in favour of the tentative agreement inked between the company and union after a brief strike and all-night bargaining session Oct. 30.

Unifor members at Stellantis plants in Canada will vote this weekend on whether to ratify a new collective agreement that if passed will cap nearly three months of tense contract talks between the union and Detroit Three.

The U.S.-based electric vehicle startup expects to employ “a few dozen” staff at each of the new service locations in Calgary, Montreal and Vaughan, Ont., just north of Toronto, according to spokesperson Miranda Jimenez.

Unifor’s bargaining committee has struck a tentative agreement with Stellantis, ending a short strike after a final weekend of intensive contract talks in Toronto.