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Features

Wildfires rage in the Northwest Territories, August, 2023.

Lifting fire evacuees’ spirits

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Art program helps displaced northerners take their minds off wildfires.

The finishing touches are put on a welcome bench for the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Benches will be installed at each school and the Catholic Education Centre.

Seats of welcome await at Toronto schools

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The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) is set to complete an 18-month labour of love early in the fall semester when it installs the final 20 of its welcome benches at each of the board’s school. 

Gideon’s example helps speaker find her voice

Gideon’s example helps speaker find her voice

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Stealing a line from The Beach Boys, Deborah Koko said she spent her vacation before Grade 11 “pickin’ up good vibrations.”

An athlete and a scholar, Liesel Munar prepares for competition at the Canada Winter Games where she took a silver medal. She is a graduate from Toronto’s De La Salle College.

Way of the Christian warrior

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As both a student and an elite athlete, Liesel Munar says prayer is central to her life.

Nick Galatianos, centre, receives the 2023 Community Partner Award from Crime Stoppers of York Region.

The crime stops here

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Imparters of knowledge. Nurturers of potential. Exemplars of integrity. Educators are called to live up to these important tasks each day they go to work. But they are also charged with another key imperative: safeguarding the students in their care from harm.

Students in Toronto’s Thorncliffe area were challenged to bring solutions to problems at the Overlea Bridge. Their advocacy brought change — for the good.

The convergence of learning, citizenship

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Historically, schools have treated citizenship both poorly and as a separate category. In Ontario high schools, students are required to take a half credit in Civics and Citizenship. In recent years, between 15,000 and 20,000 students are choosing to complete this credit online, many asynchronously and in the summer. Their motivation? To simply get it over with.

Long way to go on path of reconciliation

Long way to go on path of reconciliation

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One year after the historic papal visit to Canada, positive signs abound.

St. Agnes Church in Lac-Mégantic, Que., was at the heart of the commemoration for the victims of one of Canada’s worst rail disasters.

St. Agnes the beating heart of Lac-Mégantic

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Parish stood, and stands, at centre of remembering the 47 taken too soon.

‘I have only done the work of a servant’

‘I have only done the work of a servant’

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The Register's globe-trotting journalist's career ends after 25 years.

With the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown, top left, who was among the more conservative justices on the high court, will the scales of justice lean too far one way? Catholic lawyers like Phil Horgan, general counsel for the Catholic Civil Rights League, believe it will.

Judicial balancing act

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in a Chilean desert, recently decommissioned and to be replaced with a stronger telescope, has measured the oldest light in the universe.

Unravelling the mysteries of dark matter

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A Jesuit at the University of Toronto is helping to map the unknown.

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