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The Honda CRV production line is shown during a tour of a Honda manufacturing plant in Alliston, Ont. in April 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

May 15, 2024

What Honda’s big electric vehicle announcement in Ontario really means

Dimitry Anastakis, University of Toronto

Honda’s investments in Ontario is further evidence that Canada’s EV manufacturing sector is booming, and set to grow further.

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? (Marcin Jozwiak/Pexels)

December 2, 2021

Canada must once again grab its share of the auto industry, despite U.S. protectionism

Dimitry Anastakis, University of Toronto

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.

John Tory, left, then the leader of the Ontario Conservatives, and Edward Rogers arrive for the funeral of Ted Rogers at St. James Cathedral in Toronto in December 2008. The Rogers family feud in the years following Ted Rogers’ death is one of many to erupt at family-owned Canadian corporations. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

November 8, 2021

From Vincent Massey to Ed Rogers: Canada’s history of family firm feuds rivals Succession

Dimitry Anastakis, University of Toronto

Bitter family feuds and succession battles are not new to Canadian business. In fact, several prominent family-owned firms have had very public brawls. The Rogers feud, though, puts the company at risk.

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