Social justice commitment marked KennedyöÏÓãÊÓƵapp stay at OECTA
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Special education, religion and history teacher Donna Marie Kennedy is leaving her current job as president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association with the conviction that social justice is the cornerstone of her unionöÏÓãÊÓƵapp existence.
Conservative promises school funding will be election issue
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO - Which religious traditions get support from publicly funded schools is going to be an issue in OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Oct. 10 election, promises Ontario Progressive Conservative education critic Frank Klees.
New chancellor at St. JeromeöÏÓãÊÓƵapp
By Natalie Guadagnoli, The Catholic Register
St. JeromeöÏÓãÊÓƵapp University has appointed Dr. Peter Naus as its next chancellor.
Toronto schools embrace EcoSchools program
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Anna Zappone stands less than four feet tall holding a beach-ball sized model of the Earth and its atmosphere. SheöÏÓãÊÓƵapp no scientist, yet. But sheöÏÓãÊÓƵapp figured out a thing or two about global climate change.
Book ban lifted
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The award-winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson is back on school shelves for Catholic students in Dufferin-Peel west of Toronto.
Changes on the way for high school chaplains
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - As OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp high school chaplains try to figure out a new name for their job that fits canon law, they’re also making a bid for some respect. And they’re starting to get it from the provinceöÏÓãÊÓƵapp bishops.
Priestly presence diluted, but Basilians still on campus
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - When the Basilian Fathers let slip that they won’t be appointing any more of their men to positions at SaskatoonöÏÓãÊÓƵapp St. Thomas More College it was no great shock to anyone in the Catholic education community. You can’t appoint men who don’t exist.
Celebrating a century of hockey at St. MikeöÏÓãÊÓƵapp
By Steve McLean, Catholic Register Special
TORONTO - For many, TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp St. MichaelöÏÓãÊÓƵapp College School is known as one of the finest all-boys Basilian high schools in Canada. But for others, who may not know a rosary from a rose garden, the St. MikeöÏÓãÊÓƵapp name means just one thing: hockey.
Dufferin-Peel Catholic board to review Snow Falling on Cedars
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - David GutersonöÏÓãÊÓƵapp award-winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars has been pulled from school library shelves in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board after a parent complained about its sexual content.
Cup fever for Catholic schools
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Students within the Toronto Catholic District School Board will be learning more about the history of the Canadian Football League through a program in conjunction with the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Province takes over Dufferin-Peel board
By Catholic Register Staff
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -Â Government-appointed overseer Norbert Hartmann announced Feb. 5 that he is seizing control of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.