MONTREAL - Aerolia has selected the industrial park at Mirabel airport as the site for a fuselage aerostructures plant that will do work for some of Bombardier's business jets. The European aerospace manufacturer will lease a 7,300 square metre building to be built by Aeroports de Montreal. The building will house Aerolia's Canadian subsidiary and fuselage assembly facilities for Bombardier's Global 7000 and 8000 jets. The jets are slated to enter into service after 2016.

HALIFAX - An embattled Nova Scotia politician who admitted to defrauding taxpayers vowed Wednesday to fight his possible ouster from the legislature as his colleagues prepared to determine his fate in the house. House Speaker Gordie Gosse said the Nova Scotia legislature would reconvene Thursday at noon to deal with the potential expulsion of Trevor Zinck. Zinck said he would be there, too, battling to keep his Halifax-area seat. "I'm going to fight this, I'm going to continue to fight this," Zinck said in an interview from his constituency office.

By Alwyn Scott PARIS (Reuters) - As airplane makers gathered outside Paris to show off their newest high-tech jetliners on Monday, a less-heralded technology story was unfolding back home on the factory floors of the world's leading aerospace companies. The planned introduction of at least half a dozen new plane designs that push the boundaries of flight performance has given the industry its biggest opportunity in a decade or more to automate factories, add new techniques and reduce costs.

By Mitch Lipka (Reuters) - When the New York Hilton Midtown said it was dispensing with room service starting in August, it caught the attention of frequent travelers who, after getting in from a long flight, have come to count on being able to order a burger at 2 a.m. The news was particularly significant since room service itself was popularized about a half mile away in the 1930s at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which is now also part of the Hilton chain.