A group of children, none older than nine, run past the sign for Residence Services playing tag. An elderly couple eats lunch and watches a religious sermon on the television, enjoying a quiet afternoon in the dining hall.

These scenes in the residence dining centre are different from what university students would usually expect, as over 300 flood evacuees from across southern Alberta have taken temporary shelter in the University of Calgary residence buildings — and soon, they will be moved again.

Sometimes being Canadian can feel quite nice, especially when the United States make a particularly blunderous mistake. This feeling of national superiority has run strong in the past few weeks as more information on America’s insidiously named Prism program continues to come to light.

Fate of Calgary’s Arts Central revealed

Telus will be redeveloping the Arts Central property into a new $400-million building called the Telus Sky.

Plans for the 58-storey building were announced on July 4. The 70,000-square-metre building will include 40,000 square metres of office space across 26 floors and 32 floors of residential space. The building will also include a 510-square-metre public art gallery which Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle said will feature artwork by local artists.

With the heat of summer bearing down on us, finding an excuse to stay inside and away from the sun, the mosquitos and the seasonal allergies can be a welcome blessing. Of course, there is no better way to waste away the limited days of Canadian summer than video games, and what better games to do so with than Canadian ones? Some people may be surprised to hear that Canada has the third largest video game industry in the world, and that we have created dozens of games that have entered the definitive canon of the medium.