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August 16, 2024 - The deadline for overseas voting registration for the 2025 Philippine mid-term elections is fast approaching. 

July 16, 2024 - Anyone who has witnessed or taken part in Victoria’s Filipino community’s myriad events in late May and June will be correct to conclude that the Filipino Canadians in Victoria are confident, unified, creative, generous, and welcoming.  Activity after activity, Filipinos in Victoria came out proud and strong, showing no signs of slowing down.

May 16, 2024 –Canadian Filipino Lucas Sugui III, a Grade 11 student of Killarney Secondary School in Vancouver, B.C., won a regional award in Canada’s Ingenious+ Youth Innovation Challenge for his innovation project, "Paia," under the climate change and environment category, which now qualified him to participate in the national competition taking place in May during Canadian Innovation Week.

April 1, 2024 — Filipino BC and the Sunset on Fraser Business Association will celebrate the Lapu-Lapu Day on April 27 with a multi-block street party on East 41st Avenue to East 48th Avenue in South Vancouver, BC.

March 16, 2024 – On March 7 in British Columbia’s legislative assembly, Vancouver-Kensington MLA Mable Elmore delivered a statement on a fundraising effort to install a permanent marker on the grave of Benson Flores, the earliest recorded Filipino to have arrived in Canada in 1861.

July 1, 2023 - They’re quite a ways from rendering Gregorian chants at the St. Mary’s Parish in Vancouver.

June 16, 2023 – Although brick and mortar stores are closing due to the economic effects of the pandemic, Canadian Filipino-owned retailer Cambio & Co. recently opened the doors to a new showroom catering to the Filipino diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). 

Top BC politicians joined  Dahong Pilipino in celebrating its 30th year of publication on May 19.

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