Ajax News

Auto parts manufacturer BBi Enterprises Group has all but shut the lights off and locked the doors of its manufacturing plant at 13370 Barry St.

Festivals are great a ' an entire day of music, hanging out with like-minded people , and enjoying the sunshine.

An auto parts facility in Ajax, Ontario that supplies to Chrysler, General Motors and Toyota will close almost two months earlier than initially expected, resulting in a blockade by its unionized workers.

AJAXA blockade continues at an auto parts supply firm in Ajax, which has told its workers it is going out of business.

Charles Sutherland didn't want to lose his daughters, so he created a vision: affordable housing in Markham.

Tavia Grant Globe and Mail Update, Friday, Jun. 12, 2009 03:22PM EDT M any companies are ratcheting back salaries for new hires, particularly among senior and executive jobs, compensation experts and recruiting firms say.

U of T Phys Ed student Ben Verboom is biking across the country in honour of his late father, who took this shot of his own shadow while biking to ground zero in 2001 to fundraise for Red Cross.

Don Dew didn't work at the General Motors truck plant in Oshawa that shut down last month, but he still lost his job.

Picking the guitar as one of the themes of Luminato's opening weekend seems to have struck a chord with the people of Toronto.

Construction of an 8-foot bicycle path is moving quickly, according to Darren Alfonso, the repavement project's public information officer for the Florida Department of Transportation.

A brand new service is being revealed at the Pickering Central Library. iHelp service will be available at the service desk.

A free barbecue for adults 55 years and older will kick off summer. The Chartwell Pickering City Centre and Ajax Lion's Club are hosting the event.

"I sent in a press kit and said, 'You have to let me in, I'm from Pickering. I'm a hometown girl'," she says in an interview.

It was many months after Pickering resident Robert Hinves married his wife, Sandy, in 1988, that she even knew he was an artist.

Young Singers perform their Annual Spring Concert this Saturday. The May 30 concert, Dreams and Destinations, is from 2 to 4 p.m. at Forest Brook Community Church, 60 Kearney Dr., Ajax.

Jeffrey Donahue was a day away from his senior prom when his car crossed the centre lane in Pickering and smashed head-on into a large truck in Pickering on Thursday afternoon.

Having come from a family that helped build St. Bernadette's Catholic School, Wendy Holliday was always stuck playing the saint.

Live musicians back singers performing a variety of songs in Ajax May 31. The singers will perform pop, rock, jazz and other tunes employing Speech Level Singing method vocal techniques, taught at the I Sing Freely vocal studio in Oshawa by certified SLS instructor Dimitri Machnine.

General Motors' unionized employees and retirees will sleep easier tonight, Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza said.

A cab driver was attacked and robbed by a fare he picked at an Ajax bar early Sunday morning.