Catholic teachers seek lifting of restraints
TORONTO - Ontario’s Catholic teachers are asking provincial Finance Minister Charles Sousa for freedom — freedom from bureaucrats, freedom from standardized tests, freedom to teach all kinds of students from four-year-olds to special needs kids to adult learners.
Port Credit school to reopen as Global Learning Centre
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - When the doors of St. James School reopen next September, students will get a global perspective on the world while maintaining a Catholic presence in the community.
For Annaliese Carr, age is no barrier to helping out
TORONTO - For the second consecutive year Annaleise Carr, the youngest person to successfully swim across Lake Ontario, has been honoured as an Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year.
Keeping faith with past — and future
LONDON, ONT. - What does it mean to be a Catholic university in this day and age?
Community rallies to save small-town school
In the southwestern Ontario hamlet of Woodslee residents have rallied to save St. John the Evangelist Catholic Elementary School.
Niagara students team up on Hadfield experiment
Through Let’s Talk Science’s RaDI-N2 & You project, students from more than 300 Canadian classrooms, including three in the Niagara Catholic board, are collecting data on exposure rates to radiation neutrons in conjunction with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Pastoral plan aims for more Catholic presence on campus
Archdiocese of Toronto targets community colleges
Ryerson’s faithful have a place to call their own
Downtown Toronto campus opens multi-faith room
Catholic schools stress faith in recruitment
Each year thousands of high school students seek the next step in their educational journey — and there are plenty of options.
Canada’s beauty reflected in Catholic universities
TORONTO - One of the greatest privileges of my life is that my entire postsecondary education occurred at different Catholic universities on three different continents. I was exposed to the variety and beauty of Catholic higher education in general, and the unique identity and mission of Catholic education in particular.
Year of Faith goes to the heart of campus
TORONTO - In the campus ministry context, every year is the Year of Faith, said Josh Canning.