In June 2011, Pakistan and Aghanistan militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi issued an open letter calling for the systematic extermination of the Shiite population of Pakistan. The letter, translated from Urdu, read, “Pakistan means land of the pure, and the Shiites have no right to be here . . . our mission [in Pakistan] is the abolition of this impure sect and people from every city . . . every corner of Pakistan.

Though the result may be the same as last season, the circumstances are much different for the University of Calgary women’s basketball team after the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Final Eight wrapped up in Regina on March 17. The Dinos finished fourth after being defeated by the St. Mary’s University Huskies in the bronze-medal game — the same finish as the 2011–12 season when the Dinos lost to the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in Calgary. 


Imagine being unceremoniously taken to a place that is completely unfamiliar — one where you have no friends, no family and no idea of how to fit in. Then imagine being told that you can’t go home, and that you may be stuck in this alien world forever. While a scenario like this sounds like something that could only exist in a work of fiction, this is the harsh reality for the thousands of people deported to Jamaica from Canada, the United States and Britain every year.

This week’s feature is the fourth and final in our series on food security. The first part looked at a Canadian perspective, the second looked at organic farms in New Orleans. and the third looked at composting. This week’s is about reducing waste.

Can we live waste-free in a world where most goods come packaged, and throwing stuff away allows us to forget about it? We need to change the way we think about waste and reduce the amount of waste we produce. 


For the first time since it was established in 1972, the Summer Temporary Employment Program has been indefinitely suspended. 


STEP offered thousands of students employment opportunities at many different organizations across Alberta.


In summer 2012, STEP had an operating budget of $7.1 million, providing over 3,000 students temporary summer jobs at many small businesses and non-profit organizations that wouldn’t have had the funds to hire students otherwise.