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Home mail delivery — a familiar part of Canadian life for more than a century — will soon share something in common with buggy whips, floppy disks and VHS tapes: obsolescence.

If Canada Post is struggling to find its identity in the Internet age, the Crown corporation is not alone. The current pace of change has many predicting the rapid demise of not only handwritten letters but land line phones, cable TV subscriptions and even books and light switches.

Following its biannual Board meeting in Banff November 22-23, the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) announced its 2013-2014 Board of the Executive Committee and Directors.

The CABC voted in the new 2013-2014 Executive Committee: Branko Kolarevic as President, Sean Rodrigues as Vice-President and Thérèse LeBlanc as Secretary-Treasurer.

The Faculty of Environmental Design sends out an enormous congratulations to Branko Kolarevic on his new appointment.

Reindeer, from Northern Europe or Asia, are often thought of as a domesticated animal, one that may pull Santa’s sled. Caribou, similar in appearance but living in the wilderness of North America, are thought of as conducting an untamed and adventurous life. However, new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that there are more similarities about these two animals than previously thought and change in climate played a role in their evolution.

The phrase “sustainable energy usage” might seem out of place when referring to retail development in the deep south of a sprawling metropolis, but the latest project of Brookfield Residential attempts to combine both. The publicly traded company used more than 250 solar panels, each composed of 60 monocrystalline silicon solar cells, to power the outdoor lighting for both the streets and parking lot in the retail section of Seton (which currently houses Save On Foods, Shoppers Drug Mart, Bank of Montreal and an assortment of fast-food joints).

Calgary’s main developers group apologized Thursday after igniting furor and mockery with an article some say preached segregation by suggesting that gay couples may not feel comfortable living “in a world of heterosexual suburbanites.”

But it only did so after several cries of protest — most notably from Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

The Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) earned the City of Calgary’s top honour at the Mayor’s Urban Design Awards (MUDA) for the 2013 Community Improvement Project in Victoria Park.

On Sept. 29, 2012, EVDS students, faculty and alumni headed to Victoria Park, an urban neighbourhood in Calgary’s Beltline community, to participate in an exciting community enhancement project in conjunction with the Victoria Park Business Revitalization Zone.

Each month the Design Matters lecture series, hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) welcomes to Calgary thought-provoking speakers to explore elements of design in our modern culture. This month the series welcomes landscape architect, Claude Cormier.

A second-generation conceptualist landscape architect, Cormier studied history and theory of design at Harvard University, landscape architecture at the University of Toronto, and agronomy at the University of Guelph.