On the Cover

Image of the 1/3-scale tethered-aerostat, affectionately known as "BOB" (Big Orange Balloon!), being launched at DRAO. For more details see the article by Sean Doherty and Russ Taylor.

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CASCA Soap Box

• From the Editor
• From the President

Features

• Canadian Efforts Towards a Very Large Optical Telescope (VLOT) by Dennis Crabtree
• Efforts du Canada dans le cadre du développement d’un très grand télescope optique (VLOT) by Dennis Crabtree
• A Canadian Modest Aperture Telescope by Melvin Blake, Ovidiu Vaduvescu and Robin Fingerhut
• Les télescopes d'Outremer - modèle pour citations et pression sur le temps by Jacques P. Vallée
• Canadian telescopes overseas - citation model and time pressure by Jacques P. Vallée

Reports

• Events at NRC's HIA (2003 Jan. - Mar.)
  Nouvelles de l'IHA du CNRC (jan-mars 2003) by Jacques P. Vallée
• Radio Spectrum Issues by Ken Tapping

News

• An Alma Update by Chris Wilson
• FUSE update by Alex Fullerton, Pierre Chayer and John Hutchings
• The Correlator for the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) by Peter Dewdney
• ALMA - an Overview by Chris Wilson
• Update on the Square Kilometre Array Project Russ Taylor and Sean Dougherty
• The North American Program in Radio Astronomy and the CFI by Russ Taylor
• LOT Update by Ray Carlberg
• Progress in creating ACURA by Ray Carlberg
• Unity and Clarity Deliver LRP Success by Michael Jolliffe

Briefly Noted

• CASCA 2003 Annual Meeting
• John Percy Honoured - 2003 Northrop Frye Award

In the Classroom

• Recent Trends in Graduate Education in Astronomy in Canada by John Percy and Kevin Douglas
• Education Update by Heather Scott
• The Planetarium Education Connection by Nathalie Martimbeau
• Les planétariums : la communauté éducative by Nathalie Martimbeau
• Canadian Astronomical Society Education Website Update by Heather Scott and Travis Whyte