Oshawa

(ŏsh`əwə), city (1991 pop. 129,344), SE Ont., Canada, a port on Lake Ontario; since 1974 it has been part of the regional municipality of Durham (1991 pop. 409,070). Oshawa is the home site of General Motors of Canada, and the production of automobiles, begun in 1907, was long the leading industry, but the significance of it and other manufacturing has greatly decreased since the 1980s. Education and health and related sciences are increasingly economically important. Other products include railroad and mining equipment, metals, and rubber products; there also is food processing. The town is on the site of a French trading post. There are automobile, art, and history museums.

Oshawa

a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Population, 91,000 (1971). Oshawa is a major center of the automotive industry, with branches of the American firm General Motors.

Oshawa

a city in central Canada, in SE Ontario on Lake Ontario: motor-vehicle industry. Pop.: 139 051 (2001)

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General Motors Company (NYSE: GM), a United States-based automaker, is reportedly cutting back car production at its plant in Oshawa, Ontario into April and May 2018.

General Motors reportedly makes further cuts to Oshawa plant production

Weekly trips across the entire GO rail network will grow from about 1,500 to nearly 6,000 by 2024-25, with electrified trains leaving every 15 minutes from Oshawa to Union Station.

Canada : Ontario Making Transit More Convenient in Durham Region

Formerly used for industrial port operations, the Oshawa site is already equipped with domes, two of which are currently being refurbished to include a cement unloading system for arriving vessels, and a truck loading station being constructed nearby.

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amp;nbsp;Asked whether the two sides were discussing a new product for GM's Oshawa assembly, Dias said: "They understand that they have to do something, but we're not really talking about anything specific, which is problematic.

GM Facing Union Strike In Canada

Oshawa, Knox; Interim Moderator Rev Jeremy Bellsmith, c/o Burns Presbyterian Church, 765 Myrtle Rd.

Synod of central, Northeastern Ontario and Bermuda

Catharines, $117 million the production of the new Cadillac XTS in Oshawa, $96 million to expand capacity at its CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll and the addition of a new shift for GM's Oshawa operations.

General Motors to make new generation Impala model in Ontario

The chairman of the Oshawa Marina Users Committee has also been waiting patiently for a new marina to open, after Oshawa's was abruptly shut down in 2002.

Canada : Stakeholders react to Oshawa waterfront deal

Toronto Departure: "Comanche Two Eight Eight Alpha Bravo, after reaching NOISE, turn direct Oshawa.

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Kingston -- After a four-year battle with cancer, Archbishop Anthony Meagher of Kingston, ON, 66, died in Oshawa, his hometown, on January 14, 2007.

Death of Archbishop Meagher

1288 Ritson Road North, Suite 417, Oshawa, ON L1G 8B2, Canada

Rendezvous for Dinner

If this was Oshawa, there would have been much quicker action.

Devolving powers to regional government

to the north and Canada to the south, has been all about the corporation being a "global" company, excepting for the import of cars built in Korea (Chevy Aveo) and engines from China (for the Equinox and Torrent), as well as cars from the most efficient manufacturing facility in its North American system, the Oshawa [Ontario] Assembly Plant, the international flavor seems rather thin.

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