The federal government announced the annual budget on March 21, which contained no changes to taxation and provisioned for minimal amounts of new spending. Canada will run an $18.7 billion deficit in 2013–14. This will be the sixth-consecutive year that the federal government has run a budgetary deficit.


Starting this Saturday, the Student Success Centre will begin auditions for the third annual Coming Out Monologues, a celebration of sexual diversity held at the University of Calgary. The event features various artistic performances exploring Calgary’s queer community. Auditions will be held in the Women’s Resource Centre. 


The Department of Human Resources and Skill Development Canada announced on Jan. 16 that they had lost a portable hard drive containing the data of 583,000 Canadians who took out student loans between 2000–06. 


The lost data of Canadian Student Loans Program clients include social insurance numbers, contact information, dates of birth and loan balances. The personal information of 250 HRSDC employees was also on the missing drive. 


Clubs Week is a chance to open your eyes to a campus rich with culture from every corner of the globe, or delve into the two-dimensional world of tabletop gaming. You can dedicate yourself to a charitable cause or pledge your leisure time to watching Star Wars. 


It’s all yours to explore at the University of Calgary’s semi-annual Clubs Week, which showcases over 150 U of C clubs from Jan. 14–18 in MacEwan Student Centre. 


Talks are currently being conducted about the future of the University of Calgary's email provider. In the future, the decision may be made to switch to a cloud provider like Gmail, Yahoo or Microsoft.

A technical review committee has been established to evaluate the available options.

Archie. Dick Tracy. Felix the Cat. Maus. Watchmen. There's no doubt that these titles are recognizable-- they've become part of our social literary memory. Even if you've never read any of the comics themselves, you still know Archie is constantly torn between two women, one blonde and one black-haired.

I have three friends (the real kind) who do not have Facebook accounts. I know this because we sometimes discuss it at informal gatherings in actual physical locales (they're adamant about old-fashioned methods of communication). We talk in person and on the phone and occasionally swap texts, but can't tag photos of each other, comment on status updates, "like" posts or even unfriend the other. All of this must be accomplished in the flesh.

A recent court ruling has brought a long running case between University of Calgary students and administration to an end. After posting criticism of an instructor on a Facebook page and facing charges of non-academic misconduct, the U of C was deemed to have no grounds to reprimand those responsible.

With very few exceptions, the anonymous imageboards known collectively as The Chans are quite possibly the worst part of the Internet. The idea is fairly simple: users can anonymously post to a variety of boards focused on different topics and are given the option to add an image. Each board has a different number of pages, with the most current posts being bumped to the front page and receiving the most visibility.