Author: Toledo Blade Environment
GM’s idled Ingersoll plant a top priority for defence contracts: Union
General Motors won’t sell or close its idled Cami assembly plant in Southwestern Ontario, with the automaker pledging to make the Ingersoll factory a top priority for any military contracts, according to a union report. Unifor, the national union representing 1,100 laid-off Cami workers, won language in its latest round of bargaining with GM stating […]
‘We cannot absorb 25%’: Southwestern Ontario farm sector braces for tariff hit
The 25 per cent counter-tariffs will hit some U.S.-made farm equipment parts, adding pressure to already thin margins.
Baranyai: Judging women by appearance persists
Agnes Macphail stepped into the public eye in 1921 as Canada’s first female Member of Parliament. She was a progressive with big ideas and a sharp wit. In the press, she was alternately berated for frequently wearing the same serviceable blue dress, or skewered for trying on something fashionable. Things on that score haven’t gotten […]
Brews News: Railway City brings back updated honey elixir
Honey, we missed you. Back on the board this month is Woodworth and Edwards Original Honey Elixir, the very local brown ale from the once-again very local Railway City Brewing in St. Thomas. The marketing evokes a travelling medicine show — a nod to the health benefits of honey – and creates a fictional business […]
Pearson: Here’s to the quiet life
We have become strangely suspicious of quiet lives. We celebrate the person who has built something enormous, who rises quickly, speaks boldly, accumulates accomplishments and leaves behind evidence they were here. We measure lives by scale. We ask what someone achieved, what they earned, and what they became. And yet, there is an older possibility, […]