Business

While full-time, traditional jobs are still the norm, that is quickly changing: studies show that contract, part-time and multiple jobs are trending and are expected to be up to 40 percent of the jobs by 2020.

Former Philippine Olympic boxer turned businessman Rey Fortaleza rose from humble beginnings in Manila to become a prominent entrepreneur and community builder in British Columbia.

“Good real estate is the successful merging of vision, economics, talents, timing and relationships. With the right personal strengths combined with a great set of people who work at and with PortLiving, the business of development has been fun, creative and fulfilling”...Tobi Reyes

In the early 1980s, Rogie and Tess Concepcion were living in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga with their young family. Ardent admirers of urban planning guru Jane Jacobs , already they had visions of Toronto becoming a vibrant, diversified metropolis like New York.

Most Filipino entrepreneurs in Canada did not immigrate specifically to engage in business. In the 2006 survey in connection with our study of Filipinos in Canada, only 2.7 percent of 514 respondents had business experience before arriving in Canada. Many of the early Filipino businessmen then started out as “accidental entrepreneurs”.

Dahong Pilipino is the only Filipino directory of its kind in Canada that has published editions for 25 consecutive years. Its publisher, Leo O. Cunanan Jr., is proud to have brought it up to date by making it digital in line with the trend of today’s publications. With this new technology, advertisers now benefit not only from the colourful display of their ads in the printed directory but also online in the Dahong Pilipino website (www.dahongpilipino.ca).