September 1, 2025 — The best cure for winter blues is a 10-day visit to sunny Philippines.  Sponsored by the Philippine Foreign Service Posts in Canada, namely, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, together with the Philippine Department of Tourism. the Philippine Ambassador to Canada, Hon. Jose Victor V. Chan-Gonzaga, along with the Philippine Consuls General in Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary will be joining this tour. 

September 1, 2025 - Six not-for-profit groups in the Philippines will receive grants from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) this year. The CFLI is a competitive grants program run by the Embassy of Canada in the Philippines that provides direct financial support for small-scale, high impact projects that promote inclusive and accountable governance in areas such as human rights, gender equality, and climate resilience.

September 1, 2025 — There are no longer bouquets of flowers, rows of candles, and handwritten notes at the fence of the John Oliver Secondary School along East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street– the makeshift memorial in the aftermath of the tragedy that struck the Lapu-Lapu festival in Vancouver on April 26, 2025. 

August 16, 2025 — Canadian Filipinos who voted for Liberal Mark Carney as Canada’s prime minister on April 29 now have 10 reasons to rejoice as PM Carney marks his 100 days in office this month.

August 16, 2025 — Canadian labour unions are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to halt further military cooperation with the Philippines.

 I was with my family waiting for our order at a restaurant when I received the call. We left the festival area just as the main stage acts were in progress and the crowd had grown to an impressive size.

 August 1, 2025 - A B.C. government report confirms that Canadian Filipinos in British Columbia seek a dedicated cultural centre to help build community and “foster a sense of family and belonging, learn from elders, and create pride in heritage for the youth of the Filipino community”.

August 1, 2025 — Canada is a country celebrated for its diversity and embrace of multiculturalism.

August 1, 2025 — You won’t believe how empty Vancouver was in the early 1960s. 

August 1, 2025 — Mireia Ariana Amba Cuenca, incoming Grade 12 student at Surrey School District’s IB program, has been honing her language skills by challenging herself in speech competitions in French and in English. She is also honing her singing and Filipino language skills by performing with a youth choir that sings Tagalog and other dialects spoken in the Philippines.  She is known as someone who always  tries very hard to succeed  at things that she does. 

July 16, 2025 - The provincial government of Manitoba committed $900,000 in funding to Filipino community groups to establish a new Filipino business, cultural and care sector zone.

July 16, 2025 — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have pledged to deepen ties between their two countries.

July 16, 2025 — Funded by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program, the Dimasalang III International Artist Group provides free art classes to seniors aged 55 and over, bringing creativity, community, and joy into the lives of older adults.

July 16, 2025 — It’s rare to find a children’s book about a terrible world war waged by adults.  The Horse Soldier by Sandie Oreta Gillis is the first children’s book I’ve read about WW II as seen from the eyes of an innocent 10-year old.   What makes it even more significant is that it is a true story of people some of whom are still around today.  And so beautifully illustrated by Filipino artists from the Dimasalang III International Artists Group based in Vancouver. 

July 1, 2025 –Filipino-Canadian friends of the Surrey Public Library, in partnership with the Surrey Public Library (SPL), will launch a first ever Filipino-Canadian Author/Artist FeatureChildren’s Book showcasing Jesse the Dragosaur by Vancouver artist and author Danvic Briones.