Editor’s note: We are pleased to feature this essay by our newest contributor Carissa Duenas based in Toronto, Ontario. The essay was first published in The Globe and Mail on November 3, 2017. You ...
Among Filipinos in Canada today, there are two distinct groups that will eventually become the face of Canadian Filipinos of the future: Filipinos who arrived young in Canada with their immigrant ...
Last year, I had an opportunity to facilitate classes to supplement students’ Socials Studies curriculum at a Vancouver school. It hasn’t been that long since I was a curious high school student ...
Schools across Surrey and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia have been struggling to find ways to solve overcrowding in classrooms. With overcrowded schools, are the students getting the help ...
Juan Alim, 78, a former Filipino citizen who was naturalized as a Canadian citizen in 1998, arrived in Manila last year to celebrate Christmas with relatives. He enjoyed his stay so much that he ...
Eleanor Guerrero Campbell: By the time this issue of Canadian Filipino Net appears online, the Trudeau government would have been in office for a little over a year, and already it has tabled in ...
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 ...
