On the Cover

A view of the primary mirror of the Gemini South Telescope. For more news on Gemini see Harvey Richer's report.

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CASCA Soap Box

• From the Editor
• From the President

Features

• Moving toward a system of full queue based Observing for Canadian time on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope by Ernie Seaquist

Reports

• Events at NRC's HIA (2002 October - December)
  Nouvelles de l'IHA du CNRC (octobre-decembre 2002) by Jacques P. Vallée
• JCMT CTAG Semester Report 2003A
  Rapport Semestriel du GATC du TJCM 2003A by Ernie Seaquist
• HIA Developments and Long Range Plan Activities / Développements et activités liés au Plan à long terme de l’IHA Jim Hesser
• CTAC report for Gemini & CFHT in semester 2003A / Rapport du CATC pour Gémini et TCFH
  pour le semestre 2003A Pierre Bastien

News

• An Alma Update by Chris Wilson
• Gemini Update by Harvey Richer

• Canadian Gemini Office Update Semester 2003A/Nouvelles du Bureau Gemini Canadien Semestre 2003A by Dennis Crabtree

Briefly Noted

• Announcing a New Committee: CASCA Committee for Solar System and Planetary Science
• Recent Theses - abstracts
• Employment Opportunities
• Kenneth O. Wright (1911 - 2002)

In the Classroom

• Education Notes by Heather Scott and John Percy
• The Planetarium Education Connection by Nathalie Martimbeau
• Les planétariums : la communauté éducative by Nathalie Martimbeau