A former packaging plant in Chatham will be back in business producing hundreds of millions of cans, thanks to a Quebec company
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The utility had been seeking a way out of the hydropower business. The sale could close late next year or early 2027.
Hit hard by slow sales and trade turmoil with the U.S., hundreds of jobs are on the line at Ingersoll’s Cami automotive assembly plant, which is set to reopen in November from a lengthy shutdown. The Ingersoll manufacturer of electric commercial vans has been shuttered since spring, and union officials say they’ve been told production […]
A Free Press reader asks: Are city planners ignoring the dangers of infestation that comes with high-density living?
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The industry is already teetering on the edge of a labor shortage for entry level officers. Will there be enough cadets? We go out on the water at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City.
With the news still raw that alcohol giant Diageo is closing its Amherstburg bottling plant and moving those operations to the U.S., the union representing workers there vowed Thursday to fight to save the facility. Closing the Amherstburg plant, so Diageo can bottle some Canadian-made Crown Royal whisky in the U.S., will kill 160 local […]
Woodstock Glass Tempering, a subsidiary of Toronto-based Norfinch Glass and Mirror Manufacturing Ltd., plans to open before the end of October.
By Maya Moore
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say. Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.
This is a way to provide tools and training needed for in-demand skilled trades jobs, combating the effect of U.S. tariffs and economic uncertainty, Queen's Park said.
By Emilio Perez Ibarguen
Michigan's attempt to adopt new home energy efficiency standards is facing more delays because of stiff resistance from homebuilders. The new standards were supposed to go into effect in August but are on hold while a lawsuit filed in June by representatives of the construction industry plays out in court.
Now that it is late in August there are a few smaller jobs you can do in the garden.
A London automotive parts plant is shutting down, hurt by the extended closing of the Cami Assembly plant in Ingersoll. Qualtech Seating Systems, a Magna plant, will shut down in October, the company said in a statement. The plant employs 49 people. “Magna confirms it has communicated to employees at its Qualtech Seating Systems facility […]