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General Motors says that it plans to hire an unspecified number of temporary employees at its Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant in the wake of a U.S. tariff on imported vehicles that took effect this week.

The assembly plant in Fort Wayne manufactures the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks.

The Silverado is currently the only vehicle produced at a GM assembly plant in Oshawa that employs more than 3,000 people.

GM also produces the Silverado and Sierra at its Silao Assembly Plant in Mexico.

Pierre Poilievre said under a Conservative government Canada would make its own, sovereign decisions on increasing military spending as U.S. President Donald Trump once again puts pressure on NATO allies to boost defence budgets to 5 per cent of GDP.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a meeting of NATO foreign affairs ministers in Brussels said Washington expects all alliance members to commit to raising defence spending to 5 per cent of gross domestic product.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Ford CEO Jim Farley stated that he’s “very encouraged that we will have a better chance for a fair and square fight,” but there do need to be details ironed out on tariffs to ensure that the parts from its vehicles that are made in other nations don’t increase in cost in a way that harms the price of vehicles.

The September backdrop was drought and the 2024 California wildfires. The location was Donald Trump’s expensive Los Angeles golf course. The words uttered by the Republican presidential candidate were that the Columbia River Basin was “essentially a very large faucet” and if all that water was diverted from the Pacific Ocean, “all of that water would come … right into Los Angeles.”

Much like every other major story, the dying news media have managed to take a really interesting topic and thoroughly dumb it down to a limited set of monotonous slogans. In this case, variations of “tariffs hurt working people the most” and “the cost is passed onto consumers.”

Stellantis—the carmaker behind brands like Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep—is pausing production at two major North American assembly plants in Canada and Mexico, resulting in temporary layoffs at five U.S. facilities that supply them, the automaker confirmed in an internal email obtained by The Epoch Times.

The company will halt production at its Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, for two weeks starting April 7. In addition, the Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico will be offline for the entire month of April, according to a message sent Thursday morning by Stellantis North America COO Antonio Filosa to all North American employees.