Teachers feeling pressures of Ontario’s work-driven society
TORONTO - The average full-time elementary school teacher in Ontario’s Catholic system is putting in a 55.7-hour work week, and what counts as a part-time teaching job averages 36.8 hours per week, according to a new study commissioned by the teachers’ union.
Social justice commitment marked Kennedy’s stay at OECTA
TORONTO - Special education, religion and history teacher Donna Marie Kennedy is leaving her current job as president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association with the conviction that social justice is the cornerstone of her union’s existence.
Conservative promises school funding will be election issue

New chancellor at St. Jerome’s
St. Jerome’s University has appointed Dr. Peter Naus as its next chancellor.
Toronto schools embrace EcoSchools program

Book ban lifted

Changes on the way for high school chaplains
TORONTO - As Ontario’s high school chaplains try to figure out a new name for their job that fits canon law, they’re also making a bid for some respect. And they’re starting to get it from the province’s bishops.
Priestly presence diluted, but Basilians still on campus
TORONTO - When the Basilian Fathers let slip that they won’t be appointing any more of their men to positions at Saskatoon’s St. Thomas More College it was no great shock to anyone in the Catholic education community. You can’t appoint men who don’t exist.
Celebrating a century of hockey at St. Mike’s

Dufferin-Peel Catholic board to review Snow Falling on Cedars

Cup fever for Catholic schools
