April 16, 2025 - In what is touted to be the shortest election period in Canadian political history, at least seven Canadian Filipinos have placed their names in the hat for a seat in Canada’s House of Commons.

April 16, 2025 — To help guide voters in the April 28, 2025 federal election, Canadian Filipino Net is reproducing tips by Elections Canada.

April 16, 2025 — The Dimasalang III International Artist Group, a vibrant collective of multicultural artists with deep Filipino roots, is making its highly anticipated debut at Art Vancouver 2025, Western Canada’s largest international art fair, scheduled from April 24 to 27 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

April 16, 2025 — It’s not uncommon to hear some people speaking Tagalog in The Great White North.

April 16, 2025 - Trust is the bond of unwritten yet binding agreement between the electorate and the elected that the elected government and its leader will care for the governed and serve the public common good, not crave for more power and serve one’s personal interest and ideological agenda devoid of humanity. 

April 1, 2025 –It’s David versus Goliath once again, this time in Canada the new Promised Land of fresh waters and minerals. 

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. 

April 1, 20125 – For its fourth annual celebration, the Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada (FRMC) , takes place from April 1-30, 2025.  The event is sponsored by the Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) and the Philippine Consulate General in Calgary. 

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)].