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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.

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.

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.

In a world going increasingly digital, with the ability to compose sonatas and paint with new technologies, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications is looking at how digital culture is shaping us as individuals and as a society.

Connection must go beyond digital realm

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Are we losing our ability to think deeply, purposefully?

For Africans arriving in Canada, they find the Mass is different. It doesn’t have the colour, the energy they are accustomed to back home, which was on display May 27 at the Africa Day Mass at Toronto’s Our Lady of Lourdes.

Africa’s gift

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Hope and energy brought to Church in Africans’ new homeland.

The value of work, particularly that of migrant workers who have helped build Canada, have been the focus of Vince Pietropaolo’s lens over the years.

The art of work

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Vince Pietropaolo’s lens points us to who built Canada.

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