STRATFORD, ONT. - Conor Bergauer considers himself more of a singer than an actor but the young teen jumped at the chance to play “the deaf, dumb and blind,” kid in the summer hit at the Stratford Festival. The Grade 7 Catholic student from Waterloo, Ont. is sharing the lead role in the hit musical Tommy through the summer and into the fall.
BARRY’S BAY, ONT. - Catholic education should lead to an encounter with the living God and reveal reality’s transcendence, said the Federation of Catholic Teachers’ Guilds of Ontario’s founding president.
TORONTO - Matthew, like many 18-year-olds, is heading to university for the first time this September. But unlike many of his peers, he was a Crown ward and will be part of the first generation of youth leaving the care of children’s aid societies in Ontario to benefit from the 100 per cent Tuition for Youth Leaving Care program.
New education director to build on past to make better future
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board’s new director of education is “totally revved up for it to be September again” so she can continue to build on work already done.
TORONTO - Angela Gauthier has been appointed the new director of education for the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
The City of Windsor has donated land to the Windsor-Essex Catholic School Board for the rebuild of Catholic Central High School in the heart of the border city’s downtown.
BRAMPTON, ONT. - More than 20 years ago, Mark Creedon walked into a tough situation. The new executive director of Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin was looking at year-long waiting lists for services and a tiny $750,000 budget.
The Catholic Register is proud to celebrate 100 years of helping with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
Over the weekend, we will be releasing stories online to help celebrate this achievement.
Lending a helping hand for 100 years
Catholic Charities' fingers all over medicare
New scholarships honour the past, look to the future
Planning for the future, remembering our past
Where the stranger is made welcome
Program gives at-risk kids the tools to succeed
Volunteers are charities' backbone
Young parents get second chance
Social service demands are consistently growing
Students open the 'Doors of Hope'
London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register
The London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.
Developing the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.
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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.
Aboriginal adults in northern Ontario are getting a second shot at completing their high school diploma through their local Catholic school board. The Northeastern Catholic District School Board’s ACCESS Program is offered in four centres in the board’s vast area from Moosonee on the shore of James Bay down to Cobalt in the south.
TORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. Singing is faith in action, says Nancy Bodsworth, writer and performer of “Together in Faith,” the theme song for Catholic Education Week 2013.