St. Malachy Memorial High School in Saint John, N.B., was one of four regional winners last year in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge. The students created a system of sensors to monitor air quality and provide live updates to a mapping interface.

Kitchener students build a wall to break barriers

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The kids at St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Elementary School in Kitchener, Ont., are breaking down walls with science, or more accurately, one particular wall in the middle of their school gym. 

The Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton senior boys’ soccer team runs a camp in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat.

Toronto students team up with suffering youth in Attawapiskat through soccer

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To the boys on the senior high school soccer team, it was only natural to reach out to people their age who were suffering in the northern part of the province. 

Grade 7 and 8 students from St. Norbert and St. Andrew Catholic Schools made 70 pairs of baby moccasins last year while learning about Indigenous culture. 

Moccasin project helps create awareness of Indigenous issues

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A small handmade gift can have a big impact. 

Keanna Tejado, Eunice Doronio, Chanel Ofosu and Patricia Barahona work on a robot. St. Andre's Robo Giants club is headed for Destination Imagination world finals.

Toronto student robotics team headed to world finals

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Michelle Dubre cried with joy when she heard the news. 

A group of students from the Waterloo Catholic board with local residents in the Dominican Republic.

Catholic schools lead students to embrace lessons far from home

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Twenty-four Catholic high school students and five adult supervisors gathered in Consuelo, Dominican Republic, to debrief our day. We had toured a batay (sugar workers’ village) outside the city along a road that by Canadian standards would be considered impassible.

A fifth-grade teacher helps her students organize their supplies on the first day of school Aug. 8 at St. Helen Catholic School in Pearland, Texas.

Are there lessons to be learned from U.S. educators?

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Bigger is better and if we don’t get better we’re going to get beat, is the message one religious education teacher has brought back from a giant American convention for Catholic teachers.

Ontario bishops commit to ‘renewing the promise’ of Catholic education

Ontario bishops commit to ‘renewing the promise’ of Catholic education

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Catholic schools have a “unique opportunity” to guide young people through the social, ethical and economic challenges of today, Ontario’s bishops say in a pastoral letter for education.
Every few years, the call to amalgamate Catholic and public school boards arises, and almost as quickly subsides. But John Kostoff warns Catholic supporters not to be complacent as the anti-Catholic school movement is becoming better funded and more aggressive.

Abolition threats knock on the door of Catholic education

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A sampling of recent media indicates voices are again ramping up their call for one school system in Ontario or, in short, for the abolishment of Catholic schools. 

Aaron Parry, second from right, is joined at the Lincoln Alexander Awards by Josephine Moretuzzo, left, Chair of Guidance at Blessed Trinity Catholic High School; Ontario Lt. Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell, and Blessed Trinity teacher Antonio Gambale.

Student finds his passion in social justice, ethnic minority issues

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His teacher describes Aaron Parry as a “gentle soul,” but no one could ever accuse him of lacking passion.

Joel Ndongmi is sworn in by Paul Matthews, General Legal Counsel for TCDSB, at the Catholic Education Centre on Sept. 7.

Student trustee ready for his rookie year

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Imagine being 16 years old and having to represent 92,000 of your peers.

New school safety zones were introduced on Sept. 5 as part of Vision Zero Road Safety Plan, a five-year plan to reduced traffics-related deaths announced last year by Mayor John Tory, pictured.

Toronto Catholic schools part of new pedestrian safety initiative for students

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TORONTO – Parents have a lot of things to worry about on the first day of school. Whether or not their child arrives safely should not be one of them.

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