April 1, 2025 – An online poster “Global Tribute to TatayDigong” with an accompanying text in Chinese has been circulating on social media platforms being followed by supporters of the Dutertes.

April 1, 2025 — Most Canadians likely haven’t heard of the word “tokhang”.

April 1, 2025 - Following the arrest of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Filipino advocacy groups across Canada immediately hailed the move as a triumph of justice for the drug war’s victims and their families.

April 1, 2025 — In response to rising negative public opinion on immigration, the Canadian federal government last year announced cuts to its immigration targets.

April 1, 2025, Winnipeg: This general federal election – which began on Sunday March 23rd and ends on Monday April 28^th – is destined to be the most crucial election in Canadian history. 

March 16, 2025 – At the Liberal Leadership Debate in February, he stood there: tall and slim in a dark suit, looking smart, calm and confident, clean cut, and effortlessly debonair as a distinguished world leader should look.

March 14, 2025 – When Mark Carnet was sworn in as Canada’s 24^th Prime Minister on March 14, his new slimmed-down Cabinet of 23, (compared to Justine Trudeau’s former cabinet of 37) included Rechie Valdez as Government Whip.

[Editor’s Note: Dr. Rey Pagtakhan – a retired physician, professor and parliamentarian – was  in Kiev as one of three Members of Parliament on the Canadian Parliamentary delegation that monitored the 1991 referendum-vote on Ukrainian independence. Subsequently, he served as a preceptor (1992-1999) to successive Ukrainian parliamentary interns under the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program. He had earlier written for CFNet on Putin’s act of war against Ukraine (March 1, 2022;  March 16, 2022; April 1, 2022; April 16, 2022; March 1, 2025)].

March 16, 2025 - Toronto-based not-for-profit Integrated Filipino Canadian Nurses Association (IFCNA) recently inked a memorandum of agreement with the Philippines’ Quirino Memorial Medical Center (QMMC) in Quezon City to provide a clinical enhancement program allowing Filipino nurses based in Canada the opportunity to receive training as recognized by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO). 

March 16, 2025 - Canada and the Philippines recently concluded a visiting forces agreement that will allow military forces of both countries to train in each other’s territories. 

March 16, 2025 — Although Canada is cutting overall immigration numbers, the country is welcoming people with specific skills to meet its labour needs.

March 16, 2025 — Like thousands of women from the Philippines, Lina Vargas came to Canada to work as a caregiver.

March 1, 2025 -  Hours before dawn on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending a series of ballistic missiles and long-range artillery via air, land and sea from three directions and targeting multiple locations in the whole of the country, including around the capital city of Kiev. Thus started Putin’s Act of War in Ukraine.

March 1, 2025 - The Vancouver premiere of the documentary Ahon delves into a Filipino Canadian mountaineering club and its members breaking barriers as  immigrants trying to make a life in Canada. Ahon had its sole in-person run on February 26 but continues to be available online until March 23 as part of this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF).

March 1, 2925 – What does it mean to belong?