Press Digest: Canada - October 7

General Motors

07/10/2026 12:23

Oct 7 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
     
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
** Unifor says it will hold a strike authorization vote for its Stellantis STLAM.MI workers as contract talks are stalled over the automaker’s plans to sell its idled car plant in Brampton. 
     
**General Motors GM.N is set to end production of the light-duty Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pickup at its plant in Oshawa in November, and replace the volume by boosting output of the heavy-duty Silverado as the automaker retools the plant to make the GMC Sierra HD by 2028.
     
** Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly has issued US steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs CLF.N an ultimatum to comply with its employment guarantees under The Investment Canada Act.
       
NATIONAL POST
** A former Toronto-Dominion Bank TD.TO employee in the United States has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and laundering more than $4.8 million to Colombia while working at the bank.
     

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