Commentary

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Seasonal Flu: A Fearful Duo

(This is Part 16 of Dr. Pagtakhan's column, Medisina at Politika, on ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: College Life in the Age of COVID - Challenges and Solutions

(Part 15 of Dr. Rey D. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, on ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Back to School – More Understanding, Less Agonizing

(This is Part 14 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, on ...

COMMENTARY For Filipinos living with ATL from day to day: Feeling Terror Toward the Anti-Terrorism Law

September 1, 2020 - Why are a significant number of Filipinos terrified about the anti-terrorism law? What is so terrifying about this law? And why was the law passed despite the strong opposition of ...

Covid-19 Pandemic: Children in the Eye of the Pandemic Storm

(This is Part 13 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, for Canadian ...

COVID-19: Why colour-blind statistics work against Canada’s diverse communities

August 1, 2020 - According to a recent report published by Statistics Canada, COVID-19 has had a significant economic impact on visible minorities with Filipinos reporting higher rates of job ...

Yakap kapamilya: Canadian journalist’s thoughts on Philippine media network ABS-CBN

August 1, 2020 - It was a Friday morning here in Canada when we woke up to news that ABS-CBN failed to get Congress’ vote for the approval of a new ...

ANTI TERRORISM LAW – Should We Be Concerned?

July 16, 2020 - On July 18, the new Anti Terrorism Law (ATL) will come into effect. With President Duterte certifying the congressional bill as urgent, it was passed into law at record speed ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Wearing a Mask in Public – A Simple Life-Saving Act of Humanity

(This is Part 12 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, in Pilipino ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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