February 16, 2023  - The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver will be hosting a conference on February 26 for Filipino international students at the MOSAIC Headquarters on Boundary Road in Vancouver.

Pinoys on Parliament will be holding its fifth youth leadership conference in person, following two years of virtual conferences due to the pandemic.

(Editor’s note: at the end of each year, CFNet reviews all the articles it has published and selects for its yearend review articles that were most read, most liked or had the most impact.)

“Pride” and “amazing” were the most common responses from members of the audience when asked what they thought and felt after watching Balik Bayan, a program of song, dance and narration staged by the Filipino Canadian members of Victoria and Vancouver Island

A Filipino Christmas-themed night market is coming to Toronto.

The Pinoy Christmas Night Market starts on November 25 at 500 Progress Avenue in Scarbor.

Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau met with officials from the Philippine Department of Agriculture in late September to discuss increased cooperation, expanded trade and investment and promotion of Canadian agri-food products and solutions.

In a recently released 2021 census data, Statistics Canada reported that 4.6 million Canadians speak a language other than Canada’s official languages English and French, representing 12.7 percent of the country’s population.

The Filipino Canadian Association of Cochrane Alberta (FCACA) has partnered with another nonprofit to teach seniors how to navigate the digital world.

In celebrating the 124^th anniversary of Philippine independence, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commemorated the start of diplomatic relations between Canada and the Philippines in 1949.

The Victoria-Filipino Canadian Association (VFCA) works to instill in Canadian Filipinos an awareness, pride and appreciation of Filipino history and cultural heritage, to raise community awareness of Philippine culture and traditions, and establish strong ties with other ethnic minority groups in Victoria. At Mabuhay 2022, the VFCA achieved all these.

Parishioners attending the 5 p.m. mass at Saint Andrew’s Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia, on June 12, 2022 must have thought, on stepping inside the Cathedral doors, that they were in a foreign country.

After more than two years of the pandemic, Canadian Filipino communities across the country are preparing for in-person events to celebrate this year’s Philippine Independence Day on June 12 and the third year of Canada’s Filipino Heritage Month in June.