November 17, 2021
A 20% increase in vehicle assembly would produce a very substantial number of new jobs… FOCAL’s forecasts show that increased production mandates for automotive assembly in […]
November 17, 2021
Auto assembly and parts manufacturing are among Canada’s largest manufacturing industries, with important strategic links to industries that have not been traditionally included in previous analyses. […]
October 21, 2021
Everything old is new again. The automotive manufacturing industry is in the middle of a well-documented shift away from Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) to Electric Vehicles […]
September 29, 2021
Innovative. High-tech. Hungry for growth. These are just three of the many positive terms that describe Canada’s automotive sector. Fundamental to Canada’s economic development, the industry […]
September 23, 2021
Career opportunities for skilled trades This is the second post in a two-part blog series. It is an interpretation of industry-validated occupational supply and demand analyses, […]
September 16, 2021
Opportunities for those with a post-secondary diploma or degree: engineers, technical, managers This is the first of a two-part blog. It is an interpretation of industry-validated […]
September 10, 2021
The automotive industry is quickly transforming to include increasingly advanced and exciting technologies such as vehicle, manufacturing, and smart mobility technologies. That means new jobs and […]
September 2, 2021
A passage from a recent article in The Wall Street Journal entitled The New World of AutoTech will almost certainly make anyone who reads it stop […]
August 30, 2021
Over the last three years, the FOCAL project has dug deeply into labour market issues facing employers and employees in Canada’s automotive production sector. FOCAL’s forecasts […]