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Catholic higher ed lives on in Charlottetown

Catholic higher ed lives on in Charlottetown

Despite shuttering its doors and selling its campus in 1969, St. Dunstan’s University is still maintaining the presence of Catholic education on Prince Edward Island.

A new program at Ottawa’s Saint Paul University will teach people on the margins of society methods to start and sustain businesses

Saint Paul program takes business to the margins

Last year Pope Francis told writers Andrea Tornielli and Giacomo Galeazzi, “This economy kills.” This year Ottawa’s Saint Paul University is launching a practical program in techniques for building a different kind of economy.

University of St. Michael’s College chaplain Angelo Minardi is hoping to enhance the relationship between the school and St. Basil’s parish that is located on campus.

University, parish set to embrace

TORONTO - Angelo Minardi aims to help students at the University of St. Michael’s College find a sense of community within St. Basil’s parish.

Katherine Papadopoulos left the comfortable climate of her home in Brazil to endure a Canadian winter to study at King’s University College in London, Ont.

King’s University College finds richness through diversity

King’s University College is bringing some international flavour to its southwestern Ontario campus.

St. Jerome’s president Katherine Bergman presents the John R. Sweeney Award to Isabel Latorre and Victor Rojas, founders of Café Feminino and PROASSA, to honour their work on the Beyond Borders program.

St. Jerome’s expands on 150-year legacy

With 150 years of Catholic education under its belt, St. Jerome’s University is celebrating the school year with a new vision.

More than 100 concern citizens gathered outside Kathleen Wynne's office on Sept. 2 to once again protest the pending implantation of the controversial revisions to the sexual education curriculum. Photo by Evan Boudreau.

Sex-ed opponents take protests to Liberal MPPs' offices

Updated 03/09/15
TORONTO - The constituency offices of Ontario Liberal MPPs came under siege Sept. 2 as protesters opposed to the province's new sex-ed curriculum united to voice their displeasure with the program set to be taught in schools this year.

Incorporating Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, into the curriculum this school year will be one of the challenges educators face.

Laudato Si’ a challenge for Catholic schools

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - John Kostoff sees Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: on Care for Our Common Home as a calling for Catholic educators to foster a sense of environmental responsibility rooted in religion.

“This is really a challenge that Pope Francis is presenting,” said Kostoff, director of education for the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.

Neil McNeil high school teacher Joe Ferro hopes exposing his students to renewable energy technology today will lead to a brighter future tomorrow. Ferro created and installed the wind turbine and the students added the school logo to the tail fin.

Students introduced to hands-on renewables

TORONTO - To encourage his students to start thinking about the environment of tomorrow today, technology teacher Joe Ferro has brought renewable energy into the classroom at Neil McNeil High School.

One of the kindergarten students picks snowpeas from the garden at James Culnan School’s Climate Change Village.

An early start to learning about the environment

TORONTO - The youngest students at James Culnan Catholic School are getting the opportunity to connect with nature as part of their daily life at school.

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