January 16, 2025 — Canada and the Philippines have made it to a short list of elections to watch in 2025.

January 16, 2025 — After the initial jolt over the announcement of Meta that it is ending its third-party fact-checking program starting in the United States, we reminded ourselves that VERA Files was VERA Files before we became a third-party fact-checker for Facebook, as Meta was known in 2018.

January 16, 2025 - Lasa ng Imperyo, a Filipino adaptation of Jovanni Sy’s critically-acclaimed play A Taste of Empire, lands at Vancouver’s The Nest on Granville Island as part of PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Boca del Lupo’s Micro-Performance Series. The play will run from January 30 to February 8.

January 16, 2025 — Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), in partnership with FilipinoBC, features a series of Lino Brocka’s films at the VIFF Centre movie theatre from January 10th to the 16th to spotlight the 4K restoration of the film “Bona”, which was thought lost in a fire.

January 16, 2025 — When Esmie’s  father  started showing signs  of  diminished sensual perceptions  and arthritic hands while struggling with the challenges of dementia but still trying to  engage with his family, environment,  and  sculpting hobbies,  she saw not an old man but a healthy human being who is aging  but still determined to use his faculties to accomplish  his goals.  Her father passed away in February 2024 at age 94, just 3 months short of 95.

January 1, 2025 — Multigenerational households are common in the Philippines.

January 1, 2025 — Statistics Canada says that entry wage is a sound indicator of the economic future of new immigrants in the country.

January 1, 2025 - Drawing from the nostalgia of Christmas, six hundred Balikbayan boxes with free shipping are available to lucky Canadian Filipinos in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

January 1, 2025 — In 1989, Edgardo Lantin, a gifted portrait artist from Vancouver, presented former Philippine President Corazon Aquino with a portrait of herself on behalf of the Canadian Filipino community.

January 1, 2025 - For two evenings on November 30 and December 1, 2024, residents of Victoria, BC, were treated to Paghimugso, (meaning “birth”) a one and a half hour display of Filipino song, dance and talent, coinciding with ceremonies marking the 75^th year of Philippine Canadian diplomatic relations.

December 16, 2024 — Alden Habacon, well-known as a diversity and inclusion educator in the Canadian Filipino community, has passed away at the age of 50.

December 16, 2024 – The Filipino community in BC welcomed their new Consul General Gina Alagon Jamoralin  in town hall meetings held at the Consulate’s office   at 999 Canada Place, Suite 660 in Vancouver. 

December 16, 2024 — Views on immigration in Canada have changed dramatically, from embracing and welcoming newcomers to wanting immigration to be paused or even stopped altogether.