A strike would shake up the auto industry, even though both the union’s ranks and the share of the US automotive market controlled by GM, Ford and Stellantis have been shrinking for decades.
Gordon Lightfoot was one of Canada’s most renowned folk singers.
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Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1. His legacy includes songs that memorialize tragic shipping disasters and the 1968 Detroit Uprising.
Community isn’t just important for social recovery from the pandemic — it also provides an important framework for recovering economically.
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Community wealth building is a direct response to extractive policies and aims to build an economy on the principles of local ownership and control of assets.
The ruin of Detroit, Michigan.
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When a local authority runs out of cash, it is its most vulnerable citizens who suffer the most from the cuts to services and staffing that follow.
An Ontario Provincial Police tactical officer looks on from the top hatch of an armoured vehicle at the Ambassador Bridge.
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The perishable nature of agri-food products makes any delay at the Canada-U.S. border costly to farmers, businesses and consumers.
The shift away from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is not a normal retooling of auto plants, but a full-scale recreation of the auto sector that will reshape the modern economy. Will Canada’s auto sector be left in the wilderness?
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A look back at how Canada secured auto investment in the past shows how a peripheral economy gained a major auto sector — and how it might hold onto it even in the face of U.S. protectionism on EVs.
The effects of climate change are heightened in urban areas and impose a high financial burden to the municipalities.
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Shoreline communities are already faltering under the weight of billions of dollars in damages — and worrying that climate change will continue to make things even worse.
Just 1 in 10 choice students from Detroit attend high-performing schools.
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Long distances often preclude families in the Motor City from sending their kids to the best schools in the area, new research shows.
Parents who felt their child’s school supported them during the transition to remote learning reported less anxiety and depression, according to a recent survey.
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Nurses on both sides of the border report that they aren’t getting the support they need to feel safe on the job and maintain their own health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic’s longterm effects could include city bankruptcies across the U.S.
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With sales tax revenues plummeting because of the pandemic, many cities will face bankruptcy – and that could affect everything from retirees’ pensions to whether roads get fixed.
The Supreme Court has long avoided weighing in on this question.
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A federal court with jurisdiction over Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee found that the state governments have a legal obligation to ensure that children can learn how to read.
City decline is neither a fatality nor an urban nightmare. It can even be the background to a resilience strategy.
Laurie Nickel and her daughter Stephanie hold a protest sign during a union meeting after General Motors announced it would be closing its plant in Oshawa, Ont., that employs 2,500 people.
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General Motors has announced it’s closing plants in Canada and the U.S. Many of the towns have built cars for decades or longer. A plant closing shatters people’s sense of belonging and identity.