On the Cover

CASCA Soap Box

• From the Editor
• From the President

Features

• 2005-2010: CFHT’s Golden Age… and beyond? by C. Veillet
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope: A Progress Report by Pierre Martin

Reports

• CTAC report for Gemini & CFHT for semester 2006a / Rapport du CATC de Gémini & TCFH pour le semestre 2006a
• Coalition for Canadian Astronomy - Report on Recent Activities by Gretchen Harris

News

• An Alma Update by Chris Wilson
• Events at NRC's HIA (2005 Sept.-Dec.) / Du neuf à l'IHA du CNRC (sept.-déc. 2005) by Jacques P. Vallée
• Gemini Observatory Update by Dennis Crabtree

Briefly Noted

• Women in Canadian Astronomy: The Next Five Years by Brenda C. Matthews and Michael A. Reid
• Canadian partnership in ASTROSAT by John Hutchings
• Sangster Award
• Quick Review of A Gentle Rain of Starlight by Brian Martin
• Preservation of Canada’s historic astronomical plates by Peter Martin

In the Classroom

• CASCA Education and Outreach News by John Percy
• Education Notes by Heather R. (Scott) Theijsmeijer
• Planetarium Notes