The Province . You can usually get these from supermarkets or local stores. I'm sure there are more. Here are several mailing lists of interest. You'll then see postings to cicsrgrads and cicsr-faculty from the domain cicsr.ubc.ca .
Many courses have mailing lists as some professors prefer a mailing list to a newsgroup.
Each mailing contains information about the weeks upcoming events and sometimes a contest or two. Any change in times and locations for the weekly events is also included in the Notes. Teaching Assistants at UBC are unionized. Send the message Ernie Lamenza is the general co-ordinator for gss hikes. If you wish information on the summer hikes or would perhaps like to organize one yourself, then please see his Web page.