Tensions continued to run high as the Halton Catholic District School Board suspended implementation of its controversial fundraising policy.
Speaking Out: The power of youth voices
When I was elected student trustee for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board a year ago, I had no idea what to expect. What I have learned leaves me both grateful and hopeful.
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.
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.
Eunice Gichuhi and her family came to Canada for more opportunity, but it didn’t mean that she would forget the community she left behind.
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.
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.
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.
Students rally in Toronto for peace mission
Climate Crusaders creating flood of rain data
WINDSOR, Ont. – They’re called Climate Crusaders, and they’re part of what’s being described as the largest program of its kind in North America.