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How Vino Cuenca started his way to becoming Canada’s beatboxing champ

May 16, 2021 - Vino Cuenca did not have formal training in music but there was one thing he was sure of; he was going to pursue his passion for music. He picked up beatboxing as a hobby, eventually landing as the reigning Canadian Beatbox ...

Canada pledges speedy processing of permanent residence applications by caregivers

May 1, 2021 – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has unveiled a plan to hasten the grant of permanent residency to foreign caregivers and their ...

Editorial

Finding kinship with Canada’s Indigenous peoples

July 2021 - The discoveries of unmarked graves first in Kamloops, BC at the Kamloops Indian Residential School of 215 graves and just recently of 751 graves near a former Saskatchewan residential school shook Canada’s core. We, as a nation,...

Filipino Heritage Month in Canada: A look back

June 2021 – With the ongoing vaccination against COVID-19, this coming summer may look a lot brighter than last year’s.

Stand Up for Press Freedom in the Philippines

May 2021 - Every year, May 3 is celebrated as World Press Freedom Day worldwide. It’s a day which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their...

Anti-Asian hate is racism reaching its boiling point

April 2021 - News and the impacts of Atlanta spa shootings in the US on March 16 reverberated quickly on Canadian shores with protest rallies happening in major cities like Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Vancouver during the last weekend of...

Beware of the infodemic: like a virus, it could fan out, spreading fake news

March 2021 – We’re not going to rehash the minute details, as many of you have probably heard of stories about Bill Gates and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uniting to achieve a common goal

February 2021 - When Mable Elmore was first elected MLA for Vancouver-Kensington more than 10 years ago, one of her first projects was to set up an Alliance of Filipino Associations in British Columbia (AFA-BC). It’s a sad commentary on the...

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.
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