On November 19, Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC’s provincial public health officer issued new Covid rules effective immediately to slow down the sudden spike in new Covid cases which rose to over 700 new cases per day in the past week.  The new restrictions are in effect until December 7th if the situation improves by then.

The pandemic isn’t stopping Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver in bringing Maligayang Pasko, Vancouver 2020! featuring three of last year’s popular segments – the carols, the parols, and the market beginning December 4.

ABS-CBN News Channel’s (ANC) Christian Esguerra is this year’s recipient of the 2020 McLuhan Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism. The announcement was made during the virtual Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar organized by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) in October.

The Toronto Foundation released on November 12 a wide-ranging report about the impacts of the pandemic on people of colour and immigrant communities.

Mable Elmore cruised to victory on election night for a new term as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of B.C.

Three Canadian Filipinos are running for seats in the B.C. Legislative Assembly in the provincial election on October 24.

October 1, 2020 - Media veterans Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and ABS-CBN journalist Karen Davila recently joined an online forum condemning the curtailment of press freedom in the Philippines and the world.

A Filipino-language news program debuted on OMNI Television, bringing the voice of the community to the Canadian mainstream.

Aspiring professional hockey players want to make it to the National Hockey League.

The NHL is the world’s premier hockey league, which started in Montreal in 1917.

Warren Urquhart relates that he was the first member of his family to meet a Canadian Filipino lawyer.

That happened during his first year as a student at the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

A new report supports longstanding calls to grant permanent residence status to immigrant caregivers upon their arrival in Canada.

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll on the financial situation of the general population of Canada.

Among the most affected are young Canadian Filipino adults, based on the results of a survey commissioned by Toronto-Dominion Bank or TD Bank.

In a community campaign for landed status for caregivers on arrival,  Canadian Filipino Net urges its readers and supporters to send copies or the links to a CFNet Dear PM editorial and a supporting document to go with it (published on March 16, 2020  and reprinted below) to the Prime Minister and the Immigration Minister for consideration.  Please email or mail them (no stamps necessary) to the following: 

The City of Vancouver has completed the renovation of a plaza to commemorate the late Canadian Filipino author Mel Tobias.

Tobias passed away in 2017. He would have been 81 years old on July 29, 2020.

(This is Part 11 of Dr. Pagtakhan’s column, Medisina at Politika, on Covid-19.)

In 2018, Canada welcomed over 321,000 new permanent residents.

As noted by Marco Mendicino, federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, in a report to Parliament, this was the “highest number of permanent residents since 1913”.