In a new contest, the owner of a small fictional country is looking to send one Canadian on an all-expense paid trip to France, and he is holding a contest to see who is most deserving.

According to the country website, in 1997 William Barnaby founded Hoöstelland, a fictional country made up of four islands in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the website, Barnaby inspired by his own time spent in youth hostels and looking to rid them of their negative stereotypes, Barnaby now wants to send an ambassador from Ontario or Quebec to France for three weeks.

The University of Calgary has opened a hotel on campus to help cut the cost of hosting guests of the university off-campus and to act as a hands-on training experience for students enrolled in the hotel and resort management program.

The Hotel Alma, housed in U of C’s new Dr. Fok Ying Tung International House, is one of the first on-campus, university-owned and operated hotels in Canada. The building also houses several floors that act as dedicated residence facilities for students.

This abstract work is one of the paintings by the late Gerald Trottier donated to Carleton (Photo Provided)

(Talbert Johnson)

Despite dining services and university services saying there has been little-to-no complaints regarding student satisfaction in the residence cafeteria, some students have said they are still leaving the cafeteria with a bad taste in their mouths.

The deadline for reducing fall-term meal plans was Oct. 16, and students like first-year journalism major Clifford Lam said he decided to reduce his plan from unlimited meals to nine meals per week, because he said he was dissatisfied with the food diversity he was being offered in the cafeteria.