Month: July 2008

By Sarelle Azuelos

After spending 20 years planting over a million trees across Canada, Charlotte Gill is living in the national oil and gas capital. Every year the University of Calgary hires a new Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence to add fresh blood to the English program. This years’ writer is ready for her adventure. Gill starts mid-August, but is… Continue reading New environment for writer

By Asma Chaudhry

The inauguration ceremony of Baitun Nur, Canada’s largest mosque, attracted everyone from the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community to leading Canadian politicians and streams of devotees July 5. The new building in northeast Calgary includes a steel dome, a tall minaret tower, the 99 names of God inscribed on the outside and a chandelier… Continue reading Canada’s biggest mosque opens in Calgary

By Daniel Pagan

Thanks to a University of Calgary professor’s collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency and Defence Research and Development Canada, a microsatellite may soon defend the Earth from rogue asteroids. Canada’s $12 million Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite will be the first space telescope used to observe satellites and asteroids in a near Earth orbit. Armed… Continue reading U of C helps defend Earth from space attacks

By Sarelle Azuelos

A proposed bill that would change the Canadian copyright law will affect students, professors and researchers if passed. Minister of Industry Jim Prentice introduced the controversial Bill C-61 in June. With the House of Commons summer recess starting two weeks after its introduction, the bill has met little political debate. Other circles, however, have plenty… Continue reading Copyright changes not all about CDs