Canadian Filipino
Informing, Engaging and Connecting Community
Until recently, Canada and the Philippines enjoyed warm and cordial bilateral relations.
Then it began to sour about two years ago. In November 2017, while attending an international summit in Manila, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised concerns about the drug war being waged by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
The annual explorASIAN festival, launched on April 27 at SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre in downtown Vancouver, kicks off a May month-long celebration.
In recognition of the role of overseas Filipinos in nation-building, the Philippine government established the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) in 1980 in order to engage Filipinos abroad and strengthen their links to the home country.
Caregivers applying for permanent residency in Canada under an interim program are entitled to open work permits.
Vanessa Rodel is no stranger to adversity.
The 42-year-old woman fled her home in the Philippines to seek asylum in Hong Kong, claiming she was a victim of human trafficking.
With the goal of competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Philippines’ first bobsled team just proved that the goal isn’t lofty for a team born and raised in the tropics.
Where are you from? It’s a question that I’ve always struggled to answer because, well, it’s complicated.
The Department of Canadian Heritage awarded CanadianFilipino.Net a grant to launch CFNet's first social media campaign.
The federal government recently launched the new Interim Pathway for Caregivers designed to provide an opportunity to stay in the country permanently for those caregivers already in Canada. This program will be open from March 4, 2019 to June 4, 2019.
Jenny Kwan, Member of the Canadian House of Commons, Member of Parliament for Vancouver East and NDP Critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, was the resource speaker at the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Right (CDWCR) workshop to discuss the recently announced new Caregivers Program to replace the current caregivers pilot program which ends in November.
The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa has published a list of overseas Filipino citizens qualified to vote in the Philippine national elections this year. Dual Filipino and Canadian citizens can cast their ballots.
The Province of Alberta will expand learning opportunities for students by developing a Filipino language and culture curriculum, Premier Rachel Notley announced on February 7 in a meeting with Filipino community leaders.
She’s following in the footsteps of Tarana Burke, the New York activist who coined the phrase ‘me too’ in 2006 to empower women who have experienced sexual harassment and assault.
Hopefully, lawyers born in the Philippines and licensed to practice in British Columbia will be more represented in the province’s judicial system in the future.
The federal government launched a new online intake process for the sponsorship of parents and grandparents (PGP) at noon Eastern time on January 28th. In less than 11 minutes of being online and 27,000 “interest to sponsor” online forms signed and submitted, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) closed the site, leaving a number of Canadians hoping to avail of the program frustrated.
The 2019 Dahong Pilipino, the one and only Filipino Canadian business and community directory in British Columbia, comes out in early February with a full page ad for the Canadian Filipino Net website.
A recent Statistics Canada report reveals findings that, in 2017, Filipino immigrants enjoy an employment rate of 88.5 per cent, higher than their Canada-born counterparts at 84 per cent and even higher than other immigrants at 78.9 per cent.
