Tag: Ontario
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Stelco will idle finishing operations at Hamilton Works and lay off roughly 350 members of United Steelworkers Local 1005, the clearest industrial casualty yet of the 50 per cent United States duty on Canadian steel and a test of whether Ottawa’s border measures are doing their job. HAMILTON, Ontario, September 30, 2026 | Stelco will…
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The Canadian Federation of Independent Business recorded its steepest one month drop of the year in September as tariff uncertainty and fuel costs bit into expectations. Relief money is flowing, but it is reaching only part of the affected base, and the firms most exposed to trade are the least confident of all. TORONTO, September…
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Stellantis tells its workers that trade policy has destroyed the business case for a 269-acre Ontario assembly plant, Unifor declares an impasse as the contract expires, and Ottawa discovers the limits of a tariff strategy that cannot keep a factory open. BRAMPTON, Ont., Sept. 20, 2026 The collective agreement covering more than 9,000 Stellantis workers…
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With nine days until Washington closes its border to packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, Ontario’s liquor monopoly is spending its way into the domestic aisle while distillers who sell half their output south confront a market that simply disappears. TORONTO, Sept. 20, 2026 Canada’s alcohol industry has nine days to move whatever it can…
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Ontario tells 444 municipalities that Buy Ontario compliance is a condition of provincial funding, turning a procurement directive into a fiscal instrument on the same day Washington moved against Canadian suppliers TORONTO, September 17, 2026. Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing wrote to the heads of council of all 444 Ontario municipalities this week…
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Applications for Ottawa’s enlarged Regional Tariff Response Initiative went live this week in the Prairies and southern Ontario, pushing the national envelope to 3.45 billion dollars as survey data puts a three-month clock on the firms it is meant to save. OTTAWA, September 11, 2026 The federal government opened the application window this week for…
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Trump doubles the tariff on Canadian vehicles, parts and trucks to 50 per cent effective January 1, 2027, extending the rate to steel and setting up a decisive year for a sector that employs roughly one in ten Ontario manufacturing workers WINDSOR, Ontario, August 25, 2026 President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United…
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Roughly 90,000 jobs, two to three tenths of a point off growth, and an average tariff that jumped almost two points overnight. What the numbers say about the August rupture, why British Columbia and Ontario absorb the worst of it, and what a Canadian exporter should do in the next 30 days. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24,…
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Automotive rules have become the rock on which a Canada-U.S. trade deal keeps foundering, with Washington demanding an end to Canadian auto retaliation, Ottawa chasing relief from a 25 percent vehicle tariff, and an Ontario assembly plant hanging in the balance. WASHINGTON, August 18, 2026 If the last minute negotiations to head off Wednesday’s 50…
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Quebec convened emergency sector meetings, Ontario refused to restock American whisky, and federal ministers briefed their provincial counterparts as a 50 per cent tariff deadline exposed the seams in Canada’s negotiating coalition. MONTREAL, Aug. 14, 2026 Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette spent Thursday in a Montreal boardroom with the province’s leading economic stakeholders, working through a…