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Byline: Greg Keenan BUSINESS TICKER / NORTH AMERICA / AUTO PARTS Azure Dynamics Corp., a key supplier of electronic vehicle components to Ford Motor Co., has filed for protection from [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN RETIREMENT SAVINGS AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER General Motors of Canada Ltd. still faces a massive shortfall in its unionized pension plan despite a $3.2-billion contribution taxpayers made to [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING MARKHAM, ONT. -- Frank Stronach had strong words of advice for his successors at his last annual meeting as chairman of Magna International Inc.: Debt [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Cash-rich Magna International Inc., bolstered by a buoyant outlook for 2011, is on the prowl for large auto parts companies. 'We have [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The potential upside for common shareholders of Magna International Inc. outweighs the many negative aspects of the $863-million (U.S.) proposal to buy [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; With files from Bloomberg News ENTERTAINMENT MI Developments Inc. will hang on to two more racetracks owned by its bankrupt Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC) unit - including [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKERS AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER General Motors of Canada Ltd. should match its parent company and reinstate some of the 240 dealerships that were terminated last year [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN ENTERTAINMENT / HORSE RACING Frank Stronach and MI Developments Inc. will hang on to a trifecta of racetracks and stay in the horse racing business while most [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER There's something missing from the North American International Auto Show this year: good old-fashioned American horsepower. The watchwords are 'small' and 'electric' [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING / CEO SEARCH AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The directors of General Motors Co. know exactly the kind of leader that they're looking for to replace departed [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN Business Ticker / LEISURE Frank Stronach has been called a visionary and compared with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. But when he gets an idea, he doesn't give [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AND SHAWN McCARTHY AUTO MAKING TORONTO and OTTAWA -- General Motors Co. has promised to begin paying back part of the bailout money provided by the federal [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; With files from Reuters AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER General Motors Co. faces as much as $8.5-billion (U.S.) in costs to restructure and revive its troubled Adam [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Ford Motor Co. has made it official, confirming that it will shut its St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Southwestern Ontario in the [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN RESTRUCTURING AUBURN HILLS, MICH. -- AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER A flood of new models and co-operation with partner Fiat SpA will drive Chrysler Group LLC to break even [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The Canadian Auto Workers union has fought off what it called a threat by Ford Motor Co. to pull its manufacturing operations [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING TORONTO -- AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The ambitious targets for jobs, vehicle production, trade performance and parts sales set for the auto industry in Canada in [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Youth-oriented Scion vehicles will go on sale in Canada next September as Toyota Canada Inc. targets a 10-per-cent increase in sales to [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN Business Ticker / AUTO MAKING AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Labour costs at Ford Motor Co. manufacturing operations in Canada are the highest the company faces anywhere in the [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; With files from Associated Press AUTOMOTIVE TORONTO -- AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER A Canadian auto maker is trying to capitalize on the cash-for-clunkers mania that has given U.S. [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTOMOTIVE AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The massive North American auto supplier network took a major hit yesterday as Lear Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTOMOTIVE AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The Magna International Inc. bid to transform itself into an auto maker could founder if General Motors Corp. insists on being able to [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTOMOTIVE AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Chrysler Group LLC will start cranking out vehicles at seven of its North American assembly plants on June 29, but some Canadian dealers [...]

Byline: SHAWN McCARTHY AND GREG KEENAN THE AUTO INDUSTRY Canada will own 12 per cent of GM after historic bankruptcy OTTAWA and TORONTO -- The federal and Ontario governments will [...]

Byline: SHAWN McCARTHY AND GREG KEENAN THE AUTO INDUSTRY Canada will take up to 12 per cent of GM after historic bankruptcy OTTAWA and TORONTO -- The federal and Ontario [...]

AUTOS / TENTATIVE DEAL Taxpayers to fork out billions for GM pension aid OTTAWA and TORONTO -- General Motors of Canada Ltd. will use billions of dollars in government loans [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA AND GREG KEENAN AUTOMOTIVE Chrysler issues dealership hit list WASHINGTON and TORONTO -- Founded in the Great Depression, Amaral Motors of Newtown, Conn., has survived the Second [...]

AUTOMOTIVE Parts makers face crisis AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Canada's auto parts makers, battered by the shutdowns of almost all Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. assembly plants, need $1.4-billion to [...]

AUTOMOTIVE Ottawa to GM: Cut costs or be cut off The federal and Ontario governments have ordered the Canadian Auto Workers to make further cuts in labour costs at General [...]

AUTOMOTIVE 'So lucky we didn't get it' MARKHAM, ONT. -- AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Even as Frank Stronach bids to buy a piece of European auto maker Adam Opel AG, he [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN, KAREN HOWLETT AND JACQUIE MCNISH AUTO CRISIS: 'A NEW LEASE ON LIFE' Chrysler aims for rapid restructuring with 'surgical' bankruptcy Chrysler LLC will survive, but it will [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN, JACQUIE McNISH AND SHAWN McCARTHY; With a report from AP AUTO CRISIS: FIAT DEAL '90-per-cent done' Canada to backstop Chrysler during bankruptcy filing Chrysler LLC is expected [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; With files from wire services AUTO CRISIS Chrysler clears hurdle with debt holders AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Chrysler LLC has reached a key deal with some of its [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AND SHAWN McCARTHY THE AUTO CRISIS Washington, auto union set to take control of GM, Chrysler TORONTO and OTTAWA -- In a historic reshaping of American capitalism, [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN, JACQUIE McNISH, SHAWN McCARTHY AND KAREN HOWLETT AUTO INDUSTRY CAW gives ground in attempt to save Chrysler The Canadian Auto Workers union has surrendered years of hard-won [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN, JACQUIE MCNISH, SHAWN McCARTHY AND KAREN HOWLETT AUTO INDUSTRY CAW makes key concessions to Chrysler Chrysler LLC nailed down a key piece of its survival plan in [...]

Byline: JACQUIE McNISH, GREG KEENAN AND KAREN HOWLETT THE AUTO CRISIS Canada prepares to give up to $6-billion in bankruptcy financing for auto makers Ottawa and Ontario are in advanced [...]

Byline: Greg Keenan BUSINESS TICKER: NORTH AMERICA: REAL ESTATE: RACING TRACKS MI abandons pursuit of Magna assets MI Developments Inc. MIM.A-T has abandoned a stalking horse bid for some of [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN, SHAWN McCARTHY AND JANET McFARLAND AUTOMOTIVE Ottawa, Chrysler go public ahead of CAW negotiations TORONTO and OTTAWA -- The key players who will determine whether Chrysler LLC [...]

Byline: ERIC REGULY AND GREG KEENAN THE AUTO CRISIS: 'THERE IS NO WEALTH TO BE DISTRIBUTED' Fiat to Chrysler: Cut costs or we walk ROME -- AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Fiat [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER AUTOMOTIVE Cars a Canadian cash cow: CAW Chrysler Canada Inc. and General Motors of Canada Ltd. GM-N, the two auto makers seeking a bailout [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; With files from Bloomberg News AUTOMOTIVE Car makers tout 'signs of life' AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The critical spring selling season for auto makers got off to a [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AND KAREN HOWLETT AUTOMOTIVE: GM RESTRUCTURING Clock ticking, bankruptcy a real option TORONTO -- Bankruptcy protection for General Motors Corp. GM-N is 'more probable,' the company's new [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN PARTS MAKER Wescast feels pinch of auto woes AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER Shares of Wescast Industries Inc. WCS.A-T, one of Canada's largest auto parts makers, plunged yesterday after [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER AUTOMOTIVE Chrysler looks to clip health costs of snowbirds Chrysler Canada Inc. faces an $80-million bill for health care for snowbirds, just one slice [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN A large shareholder of MI Developments Inc. is pushing for bankruptcy of the company's Magna Entertainment Corp. unit, saying that makes more sense than continuing to prop [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AND BARRIE McKENNA TORONTO and WASHINGTON -- Faltering auto makers General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC laid out a stark choice for the U.S. government yesterday: fork [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The Canadian Auto Workers union would have to reduce wage, benefit and pension costs by more than $500-million annually at General Motors of Canada [...]

Byline: GREG KEENAN; AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER The plight of the battered auto parts industry is summed up in just one sentence in the hundreds of pages of court documents in [...]