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Outside City Hall in Windsor1gjogo, Ontario, it was apparent on Friday morning that at least one American thing wasn’t being boycotted. Fans dressed in Detroit Tigers clothing were gathering at a bus stop to cross the river to take in the team’s home opener.

Beyond the opening day festivities, however, it was a week of particularly bad news for Windsor, my hometown.

ImageThe Stellantis plant in Windsor, Ontario, which makes Chrysler minivans and Dodge muscle cars, is suspending production for two weeks.Credit...Ian Willms for The New York Times

President Trump finally announced a raft of global tariffs on Wednesday, including a new 25 percent tariff on cars assembled outside the United States. Its effect on Windsor was unexpectedly immediate. Hours before the tariff went into effect, Stellantis, the automaker that is the city’s largest employer, told Unifor, the union that represents its workers, that about 3,66cassino600 of the union’s members would be laid off for two weeks while the company sorts out its tariff strategy.

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[Read: With Trump’s Tariffs, the Chasm Between Allies and the U.S. Widens]

While industry executives and auto analysts had warned for months that the tariffs Mr. Trump was threatening would lead to plant shutdowns, they also thought that wouldn’t happen for weeks.

Ms. Thomas may be different from legions of more fatalistic Mets fans, who brace for disaster on any given pitch. But maybe her time is finally here again.

Dr. Podwal, who chose dermatology as his specialty because it would give him time to pursue his art, began contributing to The Times’s opinion page when he was a resident at New York University Hospital (now NYU Langone Health). His first cartoon, published after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, depicted a faceless Israeli runner, blood pouring from an abdominal wound, as he crosses under an ornate, undersize arch bearing words from the Kaddish, the Jewish mourner’s prayer.

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