April 16, 2023 - On April 27, 2023 the Office of Parliamentary Secretary (Anti-Racism) MLA Mable Elmore will sponsor a bill with the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to proclaim April 27 as Lapulapu Day in BC. 

April 16, 2023 - In May of this year, the Filipino community in Alberta will have much to be excited about. The first Edmonton Philippine International Centre (EPIC) is scheduled to open its doors located on south Edmonton.

April 16, 2023 - The fight to stay has been won by a woman from the Philippines who lost her status as a temporary foreign worker and faced deportation along with her Canadian-born daughter.

April 1, 2023 – On March 20 spring officially started in Canada. On that same day, Friesen Press also announced that Indomitable Canadian Filipinos was officially published and up for sale on the FriesenpressBookstore.

 April 1, 2023 - Dahong Pilipino, the only Filipino community and business directory in BC is celebrating its 30th Anniversary with a dinner dance at the Fraserview Banquet Hall on Friday, May 19^th.

March 10, 2023 – This CFNet  book is now ready for sale at promotional  prices of $25 CAD for paperback and $35 CAD for hard cover at  this year’s celebration of Asian Heritage Month in May  and Filipino Heritage Month in June.  Book launches are planned for May and June in Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto. 

March 16, 2023 – As part of its Indo-Pacific Strategy, Canada opened a new operations centre in its Manila embassy with 37 new employees. 

March 16, 2023  - The Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) in partnership with the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa and the Philippine Consulates General (PCG) in Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver join forces to bring back Filipino Restaurant Month in Canada for the second year.

March 16, 2023 - Members of the Filipino community in B.C. feted career diplomat Maria Andrelita Austria before she left for Ottawa to assume the post of ambassador of the Philippines to Canada.

March 1, 2023 - On February 21, the government of Canada accepted the nomination of career diplomat Maria Andrelita Austria as Philippine Ambassador to Canada. 

March 1, 2023 - Statistics Canada (StatsCan)confirmed that over 40 percent of Filipinos in Canada holds a bachelor’s degree or higher but are underrepresented in occupations that require a bachelor’s degree, adding that a large part of this group is likely to have studied nursing.

March 1, 2023 - Manitoba is the latest province to launch a recruitment mission to the Philippines to pre-screen Filipino nurses and healthcare workers who may meet specific provincial requirements, focusing on those who have at least two years’ experience in acute or long-term care.

March 1, 2023 – The 1986 EDSA People Power uprising represents one of the most iconic moments in Philippine history.

The Board of Trustees of the Vancouver School Board approved on January 30 the implementation of a Filipino Language and Culture course in secondary schools. This will be the first course of its kind in B.C.

Following BC Premier David Eby’s appointment in late 2022, Canadian Filipino MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) Mable Elmore was named as the province’s Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives – a position that, among other responsibilities, allows Elmore to support the establishment of a BC provincial Filipino cultural centre.

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