TONY VAN ALPHEN
TORONTO STAR

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a Tokyo newspaper, reported earlier this week that Toyota is "nearing" a decision to build its seventh assembly plant in North America outside of Toronto, rather than in the U.S. where southern states are aggressively courting the company.

The newspaper said Toyota is looking at a site about 50 kilometres north of the existing plants, but industry sources said the company is considering a location south of Cambridge and closer to Brantford.