Our daughter Dr. Laura summed up the Volkswagen GTI succinctly: “I want to buy this car.” She and her siblings learned how to drive in our VWs, so they have what I call a “post-judice” towards them. That’s a word I made up, indicating judging after (“post”), not before (“pre”) the fact. My tester was […]

Electric vehicle maker Canoo revealed a pair of electric commercial van models that look to be coming to Canada shortly after their U.S. production start in 2022. The vans, called the MPDV1 and MPDV2 are all-electric, built on a chassis intended solely for EVs, and offer cargo-friendly features like a high roof, roll-up door, sliding […]

If Canadian automotive manufacturing is an orchestra of sorts, then Jerry Dias could be viewed as the conductor. Dias has made a 40-plus year career of union work, from beginning as a shop steward to being elected National President of Unifor in 2013. But his watershed moment came this autumn when he successfully negotiated collective […]