January 16, 2026 -  After promising landed status to caregivers in 2024, the Canadian government practically dashed hopes for those who chose this pathway to permanent residency. On December 19, 2025, Ottawa quietly published a brief media release announcing that it will pause its home care worker pilot programs. 

January 26, 2026 - There is a compliment offered with genuine warmth Filipinos in Canada hear often, “You’re so dependable.” It has been said and heard in other ways: Your’re so reliable, amazing, fantastic. To which, dutifully, we respond with gratitude because we feel valued, appreciated and duly recognized for our work ethic, and with humility because we’ve been reared within the spirit of this Christian credo. 

January 16, 2026 — Retired hospital care aide Jhosie Sico and her mother were visiting one of her sisters in Burnaby last April 26, 2025, when she got an urgent call from her sister-in-law, Jenny de Guzman, a little past 8 p.m.

January 1, 2026 — Filipinos in Canada are helping to keep their native country economically afloat with money remittances.

January 1, 2026 — The revelation by Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla about the construction of a five-level basement vault in the Forbes Park home of former Ako Bicol Party-list representative Zaldy Co makes us wonder if he got the idea of having an underground storage place to keep his loot from the Korean drama, Vincenzo.

January 1, 2026 — Following the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy in Vancouver, much of the public’s focus has rightfully been on the young lives lost and the grieving families. Yet quietly, in homes, prayer groups, and community halls, another group continues to process their grief: our seniors. 

January 5, 2026 — Hours after United States forces invaded Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, early Saturday (Jan. 3) in an operation codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve, CNN cited sources saying President Donald Trump intends for the United States to “run the country” until a “judicious transition” takes place.

December 16, 2025 – Every journey starts with the first step and the FCC took that step on December 10 when the Vancouver City Council approved the Sim-Zhou motion promoting a Filipino cultural centre. 

December 16, 2025 - On the third year of its Balikbayan program, Coca-Cola is not only offering free shipping of 600 free Balikbayan boxes to Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents, the softdrinks giant is taking a valued partner to the Philippines to hand-deliver a Balikbayan box herself to family she has not seen for over 15 years.

December 16, 2025 — In 2024, 3.1 percent of all births in Canada were of mothers who were born in the Philippines.

December 16, 2025 —The Philippines is known to have one of the longest, if not the longest Christmas seasons in the world.

December 1, 2025 – On November 26, Mayor Ken Sim and Councillor Lenny Zhou co-submitted a motion to promote the establishment of a Filipino cultural centre in Vancouver to be coordinated by Filipino Legacy Society and PortLiving, a real estate development firm. 

December 1, 2025 – On November 13 Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim announced support for Filipino Legacy Society and PortLiving development firm to build a Filipino cultural centre in Vancouver. Immediately, questions sprouted on the internet, like mushrooms after a rain, as Filipinos emailed each other their dismay. 

December 1, 2025 – In telephone calls  to CFNet on November 20 and 21, Vancouver-Kensington MLA Mable Elmore assured the 175,000 Filipinos in BC that a Filipino Cultural Centre (FCC) could be built potentially at 1940 Main Street in Vancouver.

December 1, 2025 — The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver, in partnership with the Migrant Workers Office (MWO) – Vancouver and Mabuhay House Society, invites Filipino organizations to attend a community forum entitled “Safe Spaces, Safe Communities” on Saturday, 6 December 2025, at the Creekside Community Center, Vancouver, in commemoration of the Philippines’ Annual 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women.

December 1, 2025 - Canadian Foodgrains Bank is partnering with the Canadian federal government in a seven-year program aimed at reducing disaster risk in the Philippines.

December 1, 2025 — Vice President Sara Duterte’s declaration of her readiness to assume the presidency is actually a desperate ploy to save herself. Seventy days from now (Nov. 27), she will again be a subject for impeachment.