March 20, 2025 By Eric Steinbring (Canadian Gemini Office, National Research Council Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics) Calls for Proposals Another springtime (in the northern hemisphere) brings three opportunities for Canadians to propose for time: First is the monthly CfP for Fast Turnaround (FT) time, at noon Hawai’i Standard Time (HST) on 31 March. The FT Call is at https://www.gemini.edu/observing/phase-i/ft/ft-cfp. Those are short, small proposals; On the same day (31 M

March 20, 2025 By/par Mike Fich (Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics) and the Canadian CCAT team The CCAT team is pleased to announce that another major milestone has been reached in this project: the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived in Chile and assembly on the CCAT Observatory site will begin within the next few weeks. Telescope commissioning will follow in August 2025. First light instruments (a broad-band camera and a heterodyne spectrometer) will be i

March 20, 2025 Dear CASCA Community, I am closing out the final months of my term as CASCA president in a time of significant upheaval. In light of recent and dramatic political changes, the expectations of long-standing partnerships are shifting. We will have significant turnover in the CASCA Board in June, and the current members aim to finish specific community recommendations from the 2020 Long Range Plan before the transition. Adopting a Mission and Values statement i