Oshawa
Oshawa’s new mayor once saved his own life from ruin. Can he save his city next?
Dan Carter struggled with alcoholism and homelessness before turning his life around. Now the mayor of a town reeling from a major loss, he has a new challenge ahead of him.
Why Andrew Scheer is spouting nonsense about GM
Stephen Maher: Blaming the carbon tax for Oshawa’s troubles might fit the Conservatives’ election narrative. But it’s hopelessly off target.
What the deficit-loving Trudeau Liberals could learn from General Motors
Peter Shawn Taylor: When the economy is good, it’s time to plan for the future. That’s what GM is doing, while the Trudeau government keeps spending.
For Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford, it’s time to fight
Tom Parkin: The PM and Ontario premier need to take on General Motors, not offer a clean-up operation for the human wreckage in Oshawa
Why did Donald Trump bring up the Chevrolet Impala?
The car he brought up amid high-stakes NAFTA negotiations has a long assembly history in Canada
Students find handgun in college classroom
25-year-old charged
The Commons: To believe
Aaron Wherry on Jack Layton’s final day on the campaign trail
Jobs Wanted
The manufacturing heartland is ailing. Can it be saved?
The tally
With 51 precincts reporting specific estimates—restricting the count to media-reported figures and, where available, police counts—it’s possible to account for approximately 21,000 anti-prorogation protestors at yesterday’s rallies.
A sad, desperate city puckers up
Economically besieged Oshawa has found something it can re-pin its dreams on: KISS
Universities as the catalysis for urban renewal
I’m always pleased to learn when an university opens a satellite location in an urban core.