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What Canada Day 2020 CAN mean to Canadian Filipinos

July 1, 2020 - On July 1st Canada celebrates a national holiday to mark the 153rdanniversary of Confederation that created Canada as a country in 186. The almost one million Filipinos in Canada can take this opportunity to demonstrate that they are at home in Canada because this is where ...

Are we seeing the beginning of the end of OFW migration

July 1, 2020 - Covid 19 has made the unthinkable happen. In a matter of a few weeks most countries have closed their borders to foreign nationals, frozen air travel, and locked down their ...

The Rise of #Hija Movement: Why Victim-Blaming Persists

July 1, 2020 - If you have not heard of how a Lucban Municipality police officer, a bombastic newscaster, and the daughter of mega-star Sharon Cuneta and Senator Francis Pangilinan linked the past ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: A Ground-breaking Treatment and Other Updates

(This is Part 11 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, on ...

Immigration key to Canada’s COVID-19 recovery: Minister Mendicino

July 1, 2020 - In 2018, Canada welcomed over 321,000 new permanent ...

With millions of hits and rising, Canadian Filipino Net marks huge Year 4 from 1 July 2019 to 20 June 2020

July 1, 2020 - Since launching in 2016, Canadian Filipino Net (CFNet) has gone from strength to ...

Filipino Heritage Month: Trudeau, Ford, Kenney extol Filipino Canadians

June 16, 2020 - In his daily briefing on June 12, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Filipino Canadians and their contribution to the ...

Pandemic worsens plight of migrant farm workers in Canada: report

June 16, 2020 - COVID-19 and its fallout have spared no ...

COVID-19 Pandemic and George Floyd’s Killing: Twin Global Public Health Concerns

June 16, 2020 - The heart-rending deluge of breaking news for the last half year has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and its tragedy of illness and death. Now spread across 188 countries, it has ...

Filipino Ties with Black Lives Matter

June 16, 2020 - June is Philippine Heritage Month in Canada. As the Black Lives Matter movement grows, we can commemorate Heritage Month thinking of the historic relations between Filipinos and ...

Kapé: A Cup of Filipino Heritage

June 16, 2020 - Canada takes pride in being a multicultural society. However, this immense diversity also means that the wealth and richness of cultures can sometimes be a challenge to unpack and ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Long-Term Care Homes Cry Out for Care

June 1, 2020 - Do we hear their cry for care? Are we fully committed this time in history to foster and nurture as a nation our fiduciary relationship, in its full dimensions, to the residents ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Tragedy of Deaths in Long-Term Care Homes

(This is Part 9 of Dr. Rey Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, on ...

CFNet Joins Vancouver Pot Bangers in Thanking Frontline Workers

June 1, 2020 - Every night at 7 on the dot, a noise barrage erupts in Vancouver and vicinities as a grateful population shows its gratitude to frontline workers who are risking their lives ...

Coping with the corona virus: Isolation, not incarceration

June 1, 2020 - In the middle of March, we came back from a rather self-indulgent holiday in post-Mardi Gras New Orleans only to find that Covid-19 had arrived in Toronto. We immediately found ...

Introducing RESPECT

June 1, 2020 - Welcome to this column’s first entry. RESPECT stands for Responsive Engagement, Service and Possibilities for Empowerment and Collective Transformation. Contributing to our ...

Virtual Exhibition to Premiere for Filipino Heritage Month

June 1, 2020 - The Filipino Canadian Art Museum is all set for their first project -- a virtual Filipino art gallery and history museum celebrating Filipino heritage in ...

Canada celebrates Asian Heritage Month amid COVID-19-fuelled racism

May 16, 2020 - Canada is home to Canadians of Asian origins as much as anyone ...

COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Living with the Virulent Virus in Our Midst?

(This is Part 8 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, on ...