Catholic Schools

The Ministry of Education’s 2023-24 Capital Priorities Program is helping Ontario’s Catholic school boards alleviate overcrowding in schools and helping offset an expected rise in enrolment.

Parents, grandparents and community members carried participated in pray-in events throughout Ontario organized by Campaign Life Coalition on June 3 outside the headquarters of select Catholic school boards and the main office of the Archdiocese of Toronto and Diocese of Hamilton.

Six Ontario secondary school systems are joining forces with the Lung Health Foundation to combat student vaping.

A year ago, Ottawa businessman John Pacheco woke up with a perplexing divine message running through his head: “Get the schools going.”

Nearly one year ago, on May 29, 2023, York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) trustees voted 6-4 against a proposal to fly the Pride flag outside board headquarters in Aurora, Ont.

A group of high school students from Hamilton, Ont., recently returned from a labour-intensive trip deep in the mountains of the Dominican Republic just in time to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their school’s social justice program that sent them there.

Past and present intersected at St. Joseph’s College School on Wellesley Street in Toronto on April 20.

Simon Lambert advocates that the comfortability of desks and utility of the teaching board in classrooms critically impacts the development of young learners.

Outstanding leaders in Catholic education were honoured April 19 when the Catholic Principals’ Council of Ontario presented its annual awards recognizing service to Catholic faith and education.

It might have been appropriate to raise the white flag of Ugly Ville over the April 23 meeting of the Toronto Catholic District School Board.