MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - A human rights complaint alleging systemic homophobia in an Ontario French-language Catholic school is “groundless,” said a board superintendent.
Dufferin-Peel board won't appeal ruling exempting student from religion class
By Catholic Register StaffMISSISSAUGA, ONT. - The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board will not appeal a court decision that allows parents to remove their non-Catholic children from religious classes and events.
Catholic parents start petition against OECTA participation at gay pride parade
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - At least 1,000 Ontarians are calling on the province's Catholic school trustees to demand the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association abandon its decision to have representation at the World Pride Parade.
New chair for Toronto Catholic
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Jo-Ann Davis woke up on Nov. 29 both excited and the new chair of the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
Catholic governance course has its first graduates
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Graduation time has come for the first crop of the Certificate in Catholic School Governance continuing education course offered to Ontario's Catholic school trustees.
By simplifying the complicated, Brantford student earns honours
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterSarah Wu is using the complexities of science to simplify malaria screening.
Thunder Bay teacher rocks on
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterCatholic elementary school teacher Krista McCarville is taking one more crack at competitive curling before giving it up to focus on her career and family.
Call of the north helps dream come alive
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Pamila Jesuthasan knows teaching is her vocation. Because of this, she took a leap of faith by moving more than 2,000 kilometres away from the comforts of her Toronto home to the isolated village of Ivujivik, Que.
Young Tommy balances school, acting career
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterSTRATFORD, ONT. - Conor Bergauer considers himself more of a singer than an actor but the young teen jumped at the chance to play “the deaf, dumb and blind,” kid in the summer hit at the Stratford Festival. The Grade 7 Catholic student from Waterloo, Ont. is sharing the lead role in the hit musical Tommy through the summer and into the fall.
Challenge is to make the classroom a holy place
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsBARRY’S BAY, ONT. - Catholic education should lead to an encounter with the living God and reveal reality’s transcendence, said the Federation of Catholic Teachers’ Guilds of Ontario’s founding president.
London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterThe London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.