Oshawa -- Is it too early to call a GM turnaround?

OSHAWA -- The City is waiting for a regal announcement from General Motors about the relaunch of a Buick sedan. The automaker will begin building the Buick Regal at an assembly plant in Russelsheim, Germany in the second quarter of next year. Eventually, the car will be made at an assembly plant in...

OSHAWA -- The government is starting to see the turnaround at General Motors, according to the Minister of Industry. With the locally built Camaro "flying off the shelves," the changes at GM have already started, federal Industry Minister Tony Clement said when he was in town last week...

OSHAWA -- If you have General Motors paraphernalia collecting dust in the basement, take it to Parkwood Estate on Oct. 10. Parkwood is hosting a second GM artifact clinic from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Parkwood Carriage House Conference Centre. Licensed appraiser Barry Carmichael will be accepting...

OSHAWA -- Canadian August sales for General Motors showed improvement over July, but were still down 27.9 per cent compared to the same month last year. In August, the company sold 23,135 vehicles in Canada, a 15.1 per cent improvement over July sales.

OSHAWA -- General Motors of Canada is adding even more overtime at its car complex in Oshawa.Spokesman Stew Low confirmed Monday that GM will operate its Chevrolet Impala line on Saturday overtime during October because of strong demand.Mr. Low attributed the overtime and extra demand to the car's...

OSHAWA -- Demand for the Oshawa-built Camaro is so high General Motors has announced it will continue to run overtime at least until the end of October. The flexible manufacturing plant, which produces the popular sports car, has been working overtime throughout the summer to keep up with demand for...

OSHAWA -- Despite recently emerging with a new corporate structure, General Motors' sales for July were still dismal. In July General Motors of Canada dealers delivered 19,663 vehicles, down 41.9 per cent from the same month last year.

TORONTO -- Ontario's industry minister says taxpayers should feel comfortable with government oversight of General Motors and Chrysler – and don't need to know how much top executives at the companies are being paid in Canada.Sandra Pupatello, minister of economic development and trade, said in an...

OSHAWA -- It may not seem like much: a battered steel tool box on wheels, almost as big as a desk. But for Robert Reynolds, a 24-year veteran at General Motors now caught up in revolving layoffs and callbacks in Oshawa, that "tool truck" was his workmate, part of who he was on the job.

Here's GM's lineup of vehicles assigned to Oshawa: the new Cadillac XTS, the Buick Regal, a redesigned Chevrolet Impala and the retro Camaro.That wouldn't be my choice for the guts of GM's Canadian operations. Three of these vehicles – the Caddie, Impala and Camaro – are out of step with the times...

OSHAWA -- General Motors June sales were down more than 30 per cent compared to last June, but Oshawa-built vehicles fared well despite a month of lower sales. For June 2009, General Motors of Canada dealers delivered 22,334 units, down 31 per cent from a year ago.

OSHAWA -- The contents of the recently-closed General Motors truck plant will be up for auction in a few weeks. The plant, which shut down May 14, will have some of its contents auctioned off on July 15 and 16. The auction will be carried out online.

OSHAWA -- The company that was once "Like a Rock" is "getting down to business." General Motors, which used to use popular songs by artists like Bob Seger to hawk its wares, has gone in a different direction with its commercials now.

OSHAWA -- General Motors Corp. has decided to extend the temporary summertime closing of seven factories, including its car plant in Oshawa, because widespread temporary shutdowns will not be enough to control a burgeoning supply of some models, the company said yesterday.GM spokesman Chris Lee said...

OSHAWA -- General Motors will extend the summer shutdown of the Impala line by one week, but the Camaro line will stay up and running. The consolidated line in Oshawa, which manufactures the Impala, will be shut down for an extra week starting July 13.

OSHAWA -- The General Motors line that produces the Impala has added another award to the company trophy case. The recognition came from customers participating in the annual J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study. The results of the study garnered the factory a Silver Plant Award.

General Motors is desperately trying to keep its Canadian operations running as its parent heads towards bankruptcy court protection in the United States and possibly Canada during the next week, a top union leader says.GM is even paying edgy suppliers in advance for parts to assure that production...

OSHAWA -- They did it with "a huge gun to our heads", but the Canadian Auto Workers have voted yes to a new deal with General Motors.

DURHAM -- General Motors' unionized employees and retirees will sleep easier tonight, Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza said. That's because the CAW and GM reached a tentative agreement last night which was then approved by the provincial and federal governments, Mr. Lewenza said.

DURHAM -- General Motors' dealerships learned their fates on Wednesday. GM Canada said it would be advising Canadian dealers which locations will not have their sales agreements renewed past their expiry in October 2010.

The Canadian Auto Workers union says Ottawa must make sure General Motors of Canada doesn't import any more vehicles from offshore countries if the government wants to protect jobs here and assure protection of public investment in the teetering automaker.As talks for worker concessions continue in...

OSHAWA -- The dark clouds looming over General Motors over the past year culminated Thursday as thousands of current and retired GM workers bid goodbye to the Oshawa truck plant. Canadian Auto Workers Local 222 president Chris Buckley met with reporters outside the Park Road plant on a wet and...

OSHAWA -- When Bob Nesbitt was a boy, he and his sister would sneak down to the General Motors west plant and watch, fascinated, as vehicles went through the body shop. When they would return to their grandparents' house with dirty faces from pressing them against the steel mesh that protected the...