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 ...
Editorial 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. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
March 16, 2020 – To celebrate International Women’ Day this year, thousands of women took to the streets in major urban centers including Toronto and Vancouver demanding gender equality and ...
In Alberta, the application for medically-assisted death (MAD) – as lodged by Hanne Schafer was granted in February 2016 by then Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice now Supreme Court ...
Recently, dire occurrences have been reported that have made people reflect on the future of humanity. Unusual volume of rainfall during bad weather causing killer floods and landslides, permafrost ...
The results of the May 13 elections confirmed the early survey results. Duterte’s allies dominated the election while there was a complete shutout (a “massacre” according to an Inquirer ...
MAUBAN, QUEZON-A while ago at noon in the kitchen, I heard our housemaids giggling, so I was curious. They were chatting on the cellphone with Belen, who was vacationing in ...
You speak very good English. Where are you from?
* English is a very easy language to learn. I learned it on board the plane on my way here.The first line may strike one as a real compliment yet ...
