Board chair Phil Squire

London Catholic board developing a new communication strategy

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The London Catholic school board is proposing to spend up to $100,000 to revamp the board’s communication strategy.

Marino Gazzola

Developing entire person key to success

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Developing the entire person is what keeps Catholic education so successful in Ontario, Marino Gazzola believes.

Seven of the nine members of St. Marcellinus’ improvisational team strike a pose with the trophy they brought home after winning the national championships in March.

Improv tickles this team’s fancy

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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - At St. Marcellinus Catholic Secondary School being part of the improvisational theatre team takes more than just being funny.

Two aboriginal students work side-by-side at computers inside the Apitisiwin Education Learning Centre in Cochrane, Ont.

Program gives aboriginals another chance to graduate

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Aboriginal adults in northern Ontario are getting a second shot at completing their high school diploma through their local Catholic school board. The Northeastern Catholic District School Board’s ACCESS Program is offered in four centres in the board’s vast area from Moosonee on the shore of James Bay down to Cobalt in the south.

Canadian Jesuits International is partnered with St. Anne’s Primary School in Kingston, Jamaica. A new program is connecting Toronto students with CJI projects in the Global South.

Jesuit program connects students with Global South

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TORONTO - Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) is bringing social justice teachings to high school students as part of its new Youth for Others program.

Nancy Bodsworth

Celebrating Catholic education in song

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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. Singing is faith in action, says Nancy Bodsworth, writer and performer of “Together in Faith,” the theme song for Catholic Education Week 2013.  

Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic education continues to be grounded in faith.

Our system is rooted in Gospel values

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TORONTO - In a variety of ways the past year has been a strange one in publicly funded Catholic education. This should not surprise us. We will always be a “sign that will be contradicted” (Luke 2:34). Nothing daunted, we carry on in our mission, confident in our abilities and with a profound reliance on the guiding power of the Holy Spirit. We are a successful, efficient, co-operative school system with an unbroken history going back more than 175 years.

Finance Minister Charles Sousa

Catholic teachers seek lifting of restraints

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TORONTO - Ontario’s Catholic teachers are asking provincial Finance Minister Charles Sousa for freedom — freedom from bureaucrats, freedom from standardized tests, freedom to teach all kinds of students from four-year-olds to special needs kids to adult learners.

When the doors reopen at St. James School in Mississauga, Ont., in September, the school will be rechristened the St. James Catholic Global Learning Centre.

Port Credit school to reopen as Global Learning Centre

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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - When the doors of St. James School reopen next September, students will get a global perspective on the world while maintaining a Catholic presence in the community.

Annaliese Carr, left, was one of 12 recipients of the Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year award. The student from Simcoe, Ont.’s Holy Trinity Catholic High School raised almost $250,000 for Camp Trillium by swimming Lake Ontario last year.

For Annaliese Carr, age is no barrier to helping out

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TORONTO - For the second consecutive year Annaleise Carr, the youngest person to successfully swim across Lake Ontario, has been honoured as an Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year.

Dr. David Sylvester, Principal of King’s University College in London, Ont., believes today’s Catholic university has much to learn from its predecessors. This will allow students to be prepared for the difficult challenges of an increasingly complex world.

Keeping faith with past — and future

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LONDON, ONT. - What does it mean to be a Catholic university in this day and age?

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