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At Camp Vincent, one week of camp allows children to be their favourite superhero.

Camp Vincent, where superheroes come out to play

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This summer children at Camp Vincent can cast off the shackles of life and spend a week living as superheroes.

Kayaking, canoeing, archery — these are all activities that many kids will rarely experience. But at summer camp, all these activities are offered in abundance. And your child will remember these for a lifetime.

Camp memories will last a lifetime

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Packing your child up and shipping them off to camp away from everything familiar might be one of the most lasting gifts a parent can give a child.

TCDSB chair Mike Del Grande, left, and director of education Angela Gauthier.

Toronto Catholic board could see 300 teacher cuts

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TORONTO - Budgeting blunders that left an unexpected deficit, coupled with a potential two-per-cent cut in provincial grants, could leave the Toronto Catholic District School Board with more than 300 fewer frontline educators in September.

A member of the Kurdish Security Forces, above, holds an injured civilian to evacuate him in Tal Tamar, Syria, Feb. 25.

Once again, a Church is martyred

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TORONTO - With anywhere between 240 and 350 Assyrian Christians kidnapped by ISIS as it swept up Syria’s Al Khabour River in late February — quickly taking the villages of Tal Shamiran, Tal Tawil, Al Hourmiz and more villages surrounding the town of Tal Tamer — Assyrian-Canadians are living a bad dream and a recurring one.

Toronto Catholic District School board chair Michael Del Grande says that human error and an inadequate system of checks and balances in the board’s accounting department led to the nearly $17-million deficit.

TCDSB dealing with a $16.9-million shortfall due to accounting error

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TORONTO - An accounting error in the previous budget means that the Toronto Catholic District School Board is expected to end this school year with a $16.9-million deficit.

Sisters Theresa and Ottavia are the oldest (Ottavia) and youngest (Theresa) of the five Trentadue siblings originally from Barri-Mondungo, Italy. The two were the closest of the five siblings as well, and that lasts to this day, though Ottavia’s Alzheimer’s means she needs full time care and she no longer recognizes her sister. But there is always that special familial bond between siblings.

The familial ties that bind

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In the end, after 70, 80, 90 years on the planet, chances are the people you will have known best, longest and most thoroughly will be your brothers and sisters. They are the people who came with you into the world out of the same womb.

About 500 people gathered outside Queen’s Park Feb. 24, many with signs in hand, voicing concerns about Ontario’s revised sexual education curriculum which was unveiled slightly more than 24 hours earlier.

Schools to teach sex ed through Catholic lens

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OTTAWA - Ontario Catholic authorities believe Catholic teaching is protected in the province’s new sex education curriculum, though pro-family groups don’t share in that optimism.

Starting in April, Richard Corneil will become Windsor-based Assumption University's chief administrator and principal.

Richard Corneil to succeed Fr. Rosica as Assumption principal

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Richard Corneil will be taking over as new chief administrator and principal of Windsor, Ont.’s Assumption University beginning in April.

Catholic universities and colleges need to help students embrace their faith, a conference in Washington heard.

Catholic colleges urged to tap into students’ faith

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WASHINGTON - Catholic college presidents gathered in Washington earlier this month not only got ideas about ways to improve faculty development and fundraising efforts, they were also challenged to keep helping students embrace their faith or come to understand what it means.

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, alongside Catholic Pacific College president Christine Jones and Trinity Western University president Bob Kuhn.

Name now reflects college’s Catholicity

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LANGLEY, B.C. - The Catholic college affiliated with Trinity Western University has rebranded itself.

Redeemer Pacific College, which teaches TWU-accredited courses from a Catholic perspective, has changed its name to Catholic Pacific College.

Student campus ministers promoting the Newman Centre by giving away hot beverages and talking to passer-bys.

Newman Centre takes ministry to the streets

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TORONTO - On a large campus like the University of Toronto’s St. George campus, it can be hard for students to feel a sense of community. So the Newman Centre’s Student Campus Ministry (SCM) team is going out to let Catholic students on campus know it is there for them.

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