March 16, 2023 – As part of its Indo-Pacific Strategy, Canada opened a new operations centre in its Manila embassy with 37 new employees. 

March 16, 2023  - The Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) in partnership with the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa and the Philippine Consulates General (PCG) in Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver join forces to bring back Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada for the second year.

March 16, 2023 - Members of the Filipino community in B.C. feted career diplomat Maria Andrelita Austria before she left for Ottawa to assume the post of ambassador of the Philippines to Canada.

March 16, 2023 - Located offsite between Thurlow and Bute along Granville Streets downtown, Dr. Lani Maestro’s installation art, specifically sculpted glass texts and neon light that reads on two columns,

March 1, 2023 - On February 21, the government of Canada accepted the nomination of career diplomat Maria Andrelita Austria as Philippine Ambassador to Canada. 

March 1, 2023 - On January 30, 2023, the Vancouver School Board (VSB) unanimously voted to offer the Board/Authority Authorized (BAA) Filipino Language and Culture Course 11. 

March 1, 2023 - Statistics Canada (StatsCan)confirmed that over 40 percent of Filipinos in Canada holds a bachelor’s degree or higher but are underrepresented in occupations that require a bachelor’s degree, adding that a large part of this group is likely to have studied nursing.

March 1, 2023 - Manitoba is the latest province to launch a recruitment mission to the Philippines to pre-screen Filipino nurses and healthcare workers who may meet specific provincial requirements, focusing on those who have at least two years’ experience in acute or long-term care.

March 1, 2023 – The 1986 EDSA People Power uprising represents one of the most iconic moments in Philippine history.

[ Editor’s Note: Dr. Rey Pagtakhan was one of the three Members of Parliament on the Canadian Parliamentary delegation that observed in Kiev the 1991-referendum-vote on Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union and was, subsequently, a preceptor (1992-1999) to successive Ukrainian parliamentary interns under the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program.

March 1, 2023 – A dragon or a dinosaur? Jesse is neither. But what he is, is a good friend to Oyster Ray, Octopus Faye, Jellyfish Vance, Starfish Nance, Whaleshark Pat, and Turtle Matt. And that, for Jesse, is enough—and more than enough.

February 16, 2023  - The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver will be hosting a conference on February 26 for Filipino international students at the MOSAIC Headquarters on Boundary Road in Vancouver.

February 16, 2023 - While celebrating Valentine’s Month this year, I was reminded by a friend who is always in love “that love is the most powerful energy in the universe.”