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 ...
April 1 - 15, 2019
Editorial: Making history In the Philippines, general elections are taking place mid-way into the current Duterte administration in May, and ballots for overseas voting have been mailed to every registered voter residing elsewhere in the world. Campaign period has started in the Philippines with hundreds of candidates belonging to over a hundred political parties tirelessly travelling to every nook and cranny to convince voters to vote for them. Read more
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 ...
