Eleanor Guerrero Campbell: Both the mandate letter to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Minister John McCallum and the Speech from the Throne are re-assuring of the federal government’s ...
Temporary foreign worker programs (TFWP) or “guest worker” schemes are an example of contradictions in liberal democratic states that have to find compromises in achieving conflicting social and ...
Eleanor Guerrero Campbell: First, tell us more about the Prime Minister’s ‘Mandate Letters’ to his Ministers. Are they merely a repetition of the election ...
Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell: November 4 this year marks the first-year anniversary of the federal government under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who, a year ago, campaigned on their ...
Dear Mr. Duterte, I did not vote for you for one big reason: Your position on the West Philippine Sea during the campaign was totally unacceptable to ...
Nelson Didulo has been involved all his life in civic organizations from YMCA International, to Vancouver Folk Festival, to United Confederation of Filipino Associations in ...
Unlike many people I know, I retired without much thought about how I was going to survive. Fortunately, Canada has old age pension and Canada Pension Plan that can be relied ...
The first wave of Filipino immigrants, young professionals who arrived in the 1960s and 1970s, are now reaching retirement age. They were at the prime of their lives when they came, full of hope for ...
How do we begin to understand why very few students of Filipino heritage are able to complete high school in Canada compared to youths of other immigrant families? Among students of Filipino heritage ...
When my wife Eleanor and I were writing our book Seeking a Better Life Abroad (Manila: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2008) based on her study of Filipinos in Canada from 1957 to 2007, we were impressed by ...
While on a recent family vacation, I read and learned from Noam Chomsky, one of the most prolific intellectual and political activists of today, about what he termed as “Muasher ...
