Montréal-Mirabel International Airport is a large airport located in Mirabel, Quebec, near Montréal. The airport serves mainly cargo flights, and is a manufacturing base of Bombardier Aerospace, where final assembly of CRJ700 and CRJ900 aircraft is conducted. It is part of the National Airports System. Despite being intended to become the eastern air gateway to Canada, the airport's location and lack of transport links, as well as Montréal's economic decline relative to Toronto, made it unpopular with airlines. Eventually it was relegated to the simple role of a cargo airport. The airport, while initially a source of pride, eventually became an embarrassment, and is widely regarded in Canada as being a boondoggle and one of the worst examples of a failed megaproject. Read the rest of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al-Mirabel_International_Airport _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1692: Giles Corey, who had refused to enter a plea, was pressed to his death during the Salem witch trials. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials) 1893: New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage, following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage) 1982: ":-)" and ":-(" were first proposed by Scott Fahlman for use as emoticons . (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon) 1985: A magnitude-8.1 earthquake devastated Mexico City, killing at least five thousand people and leaving up to 90,000 homeless. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City) 1995: The Unabomber Manifesto was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times, almost three months after it was submitted. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski) _____________________ Wikiquote of the day: "There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream." -- Frances Farmer (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer)