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CANADIAN automobile dealers are looking out for a potential increase in the price of vehicles that they sell on account of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which came into force on July 1 (2020).

This is likely to be fuelled by the new deal insisting that Canadian (as well as American and Mexican) auto-manufacturers may have to increase their USMCA-bloc sourcing to ensure that 75% of a vehicle’s parts are made a signatory country.…

ORGANISERS of the Canadian International AutoShow are drawing on innovative online systems to launch a unique online 2021 event, which will be staged virtually because of Covid-19.

Canada’s largest annual consumer show attracted 330,000 visitors this February, so staging the 2021 event physically was an impossible health risk until the epidemic is over, said show general manager Jason Campbell.…

USA automotive manufacturers are facing some tough choices when implementing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which entered into force on July 1, to avoid its pressure on costs being reflected in showroom price increases.

The new deal, which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), requires US, Mexican and Canadian auto manufacturers to increase their USMCA-bloc sourcing to ensure that 75% of a vehicle’s parts are made in a signatory country to benefit from the free trade provisions.…

The Canadian government is likely to extend its ‘Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles’ subsidy program when it brings an economic update statement to parliament during the fall, the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) predicts.

Its Chief Economist Oumar Dicko highlighted promises within a ‘Throne Speech’ delivered on September 23 (1), outlining the Liberal government’s plans, which said it would “make zero-emissions vehicles more affordable while investing in more charging stations across the country”.…

THE WORLD has become used to large leaks of confidential data from intelligence services and banks, but the latest dump, from the files of the USA’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) may have impacts beyond the unveiling of wrongdoing. Keith Nuthall explains.…

QUANTUM computing is coming to fruition after decades of research and these new powerful systems will offer textile finishers the opportunity to develop new chemicals and products that they simply could not explore and create using classical computers.

These new computers excel in the complex calculations that are needed to model molecules, especially those from nature, whose assessment are often at the core of designing new chemical solutions that could deliver new functionality and colour to textiles.…

CANADIAN auto dealers and marques have been developing remote technologies enabling remote vehicle sales when Covid-19 social distancing restrictions impedes the physical operation of dealerships.

Even with these rules relaxing – with much of Ontario entering a ‘stage 3’ reopening from July 17, and dealerships fully open – physical distancing will still be required on premises.…

INTRODUCTION

Quantum computers were once the stuff of science fiction, the technology that was always 10 years away from fruition. But now they are real and operating. Google last October announced it had developed a device of 53-qubits (quantum computers’ ability to express a signal), nicknamed Sycamore, which it claimed in a Nature article [1] took 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times, which the IT major claimed would take 10,000 years for a state-of-the-art digital supercomputer to achieve.…

Unsettling images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or pristine tropical beaches desecrated with debris have promoted the trend for plastics-free goods across a wide range of economic sectors, including nonwovens, pressuring industries and policymakers to respond to the problem.…

THE EGMONT Group, the international network of financial intelligence units (FIU), is focusing on improving how its central resources and members use and interact with new technology. Interim Egmont Group chair, Hennie Verbeek-Kusters, told MLB that the group is reviewing its IT systems, of critical importance regarding the safe and encrypted exchange between its 164 member FIUs (there were 22,538 such exchanges in 2017, the most recent available data).…