There is more good news for Ontario's recovering automotive sector, and in particular, Oxford County.
Toyota has decided to assemble the electric version of its popular RAV4 S-U-V in Woodstock.
One provincial source says Toyota chose Woodstock because of Ontario's “continued commitment to electric vehicles” and ongoing support of the auto industry.
The Canadian and Ontario governments recently gave Toyota $141.6 million in grants and loans to upgrade its southern Ontario plants in Woodstock and Cambridge.
Ontario offers consumers who buy or lease electric vehicles between $5,000 and $8,500 in incentives, with the goal of having one out of 20 vehicles in the province electrically powered by 2020.
Premier Dalton McGuinty will visit Woodstock on Friday for the formal announcement, which the government says will secure 6,500 jobs at the two Toyota plants in Ontario plus thousands of supplier jobs.
Fur Protest in London...
November 3, 2011.
PETA protesters showed off some of their skin in a bid to ensure more animals keep their pelts.
Wearing nothing but their underwear, two women disrobed in front of the Citi Plaza, on the corner of Wellington and King Streets, Thursday (Nov. 3) to promote PETA’s campaign to encourage animal cruelty-free shopping.
“We’re encouraging people to make compassionate choices by not wearing fur, leather, wool or exotic animal skins because animals are routinely skinned alive,” said PETA’s Emily Lavender, one of the women who stripped down.
The two topless protestors showed off their stuff for an hour starting at noon.
The protest coincides with a southwestern Ontario promotion by PETA to end animal cruelty in fashion.
