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Toronto film festival closes with Becoming Labrador docu about Canadian Filipino migrants

Many Canadian Filipinos, especially in big cities, probably have never heard of a place called Happy Valley-Goose ...

November 1 - 15, 2019

Editorial: Saint Andres Bonifacio (November 2019)
November not only commemorates All Saints and All Souls days but celebrates the birth of Philippine national hero Andres Bonifacio on November 30. To most Filipinos, he may not personify the idea of a conventional saint (he was a freemason married to a Catholic Gregoria de Jesus) but looking back at his life, Andres Bonifacio truly deserves a place in heaven and worthy of emulation by so many of us Filipinos who struggle to make ends meet while aspiring to serve a purpose much bigger than our own. Read more

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Vancouver dance artist Alvin Erasga Tolentino presents Passages of Rhythms

Alvin Erasga Tolentino has gathered diverse artists for a new dance presentation in ...

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Ally Gonzalo’s Bakla! photo essay focuses on Filipino gay community in Winnipeg

Depending on the tone and who is talking to whom and in what circumstance, the Tagalog utterance of ‘bakla!’ among Filipinos could mean different ...

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Canada Votes: The Basics

Some of us who are Filipino immigrants to Canada still remember a time when we went to a polling place, generally a school, to cast our votes – pressing our thumbs on purple ink pads while election ...

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Wooing the Canadian voter: Promises by political parties

As in many election campaigns, it is easy for voters to get lost in the midst of the mudslinging and scandals prevalent during campaign ...

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Future Majority: Youth holds Canada’s future

A non-profit, non-partisan group is urging Canada’s largest voting bloc to go out and ...

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Hi! I am from the Philippines and I am very grateful to my country of birth

Susan* first came to Canada at age 45, and went through Canada’s credentialing process for ...

Editorial: Saint Andres Bonifacio (November 2019)

November not only commemorates All Saints and All Souls days but celebrates the birth of...

Editorial: Who do you trust as Prime Minister of Canada? (October 2019)

About two weeks before the writ dropped on September 11, 2019, signaling the start of the federal...

Editorial: Everyone Could and Should Try to Avert a Climate Change Meltdown (September 2019)

As the world warms up with the activities of its more than seven billion global population, extreme...

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