The asphyxiation of Oshawa
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[caption id="attachment_178" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cindy and Joel Smith at an NDP rally outside the GM Truck plant. Behind them, a freshly minted GM pick-up truck rolls off the assembly line."][/caption]
Sprawling outside the city of Oshawa (about an hours drive East of Toronto), the General Motors Autoplex, the largest of its kind in North America, employs around 10,000 people.
Next Spring, it is due to close.
The tanking US economy, the slump in sales of gas guzzling cars, vans and trucks, as well as high gas prices, have led to the Autoplex's demise.
A few months back, Toronto Life magazine commissioned me to illustrate ...
