WestJet Encore is a Canadian regional airline that began operations in 2013 as a subsidiary of WestJet Airlines, Ltd., the holding company for WestJet Airlines. It is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Originally limited to Western Canada, air service was later supplemented by routes in the eastern half of the country. Pilot bases are in Calgary and Toronto, where many WestJet Encore flights operate. Because WestJet Airlines operates only larger aircraft such as the Boeing 737, the company could not profitably serve many routes with less traffic. WestJet Encore was created to use smaller planes, allowing the company to serve these routes and to increase the frequency of flights on other routes. The airline is the fourth largest operator of the Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft (pictured), a variant of the Bombardier Dash 8. The airline was initially staffed with non-union employees but the pilots have since unionized.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1775:

American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of Quebec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_St._Jean

1859:

Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

1914:

Andrew Fisher, whose previous term as Prime Minister of Australia oversaw a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s, became Prime Minister for the third time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher

1980:

Solidarity, the Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Solidarity

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

warrant: 1. (transitive, obsolete) To protect, keep safe (from danger). 2. (transitive, obsolete) To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something). 3. (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.). 4. (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly. 5. (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something). 6. (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/warrant

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: the only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.   --William Carlos Williams https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams